在Skydance成立的第一天，有一点就很明确：在David Ellison温文尔雅的外表下，隐藏着Ynon Kreiz铁一般的手段。
One thing was clear on Skydance’s first day of life: Beneath David Ellison’s velvet glove is Ynon Kreiz’s iron fist.
为了获得那笔用于协助管理Paramount-Warner Bros.合并公司的4000多万美元报酬，Kreiz必须充当Ellison宏伟愿景背后的执行者和成本削减者。
To earn his $40-odd million payout to help run the combined Paramount-Warner Bros., Kreiz will have to serve as a Tom Wambsgans-ian pain sponge — the executor and cost-cutter behind Ellison’s lofty vision boards.
在周二的一次员工大会上，Ellison告诉员工们电影制作‘有一种魔力’，而Kreiz则直言‘最终，我们的成功将取决于业绩’。”
After Ellison told Skydance’s assembled employees at a town-hall meeting Tuesday that “there is something magical about” movie-making, Kreiz stated plainly “ultimately, our success will be determined by performance,” according to prepared remarks viewed by Semafor.
据Semafor报道，投资者们对Skydance刚刚下调的债务状况持谨慎态度，裁员也在酝酿之中。
Investors are warily eying Skydance’s freshly downgraded debt, and layoffs are coming.
好莱坞和华盛顿的人脉关系能帮助Ellison到什么程度，只有在他真正面对管理这家负债累累的媒体巨头时才能见分晓。
There’s only so far Hollywood and Washington connections can take Ellison before the reality of managing a debt-laden media giant forces him to prove he can actually run one. — Rohan Goswami