Skydance Media

Skydance was founded in 2010 and produces live-action features, television, animation, interactive and new media. In the firm's early days, the company was based out of the hangar at the Santa Monica airport. Skydance Television quickly broke into producing scripted content, setting up its first comedy series, Grace and Frankie, at Netflix. In 2022, Skydance produced the highly anticipated film Top Gun: Maverick which broke numerous box office records including becoming the highest gross domestic film of the year. Early in 2024, there were news reports that Skydance founder David Ellison was pursuing a purchase or merger with National Amusements, the family holding company that controls Paramount Global.