In light of the merger with Skydance, Paramount Pictures says that Top Gun, Star Trek, and Transformers are "a priority" for the studio.

To that end, Paramount is outright rejecting the streaming approach of some of its competition, instead opting to embrace the theatrical experience in a major way. That, surely, will be music to the ears of moviegoers – and Tom Cruise – who consider the cinema to be hallowed ground in uncertain times.

One week on the job, tech scion David Ellison is settling in at the Paramount lot after his family took over the century-old studio.