Skydance's Nordics, Germany and Benelux chief says she is "not naïve" about the merger

Christina Sulebakk, who runs Skydance's business in the Nordics, Germany and the Benelux countries, has said she is "not naïve" about the changes ahead. She made the remarks at the Munich Media Days conference, in comments reported by Deadline.

"We're doing our best to manage the change, but I'm not naïve," she said about the $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery. Paramount Skydance completed that deal on October 6, according to Reuters. Earlier in the summer, a federal judge had ordered the buyer to pause the acquisition until August 3.

Sulebakk is one of the first senior international Skydance executives to speak in public since the merger closed. That makes her remarks among the first from the company's European side about what the combined group will look like there.

Her career has been spent inside the Warner side of the business. She has been with various versions of the group for 15 years, starting at HBO Europe. She was general manager of HBO Max in Europe, the Middle East and Africa before she became general manager for the Nordics, a role she took up in June 2022. The Nordic region she oversees covers Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. At the start of 2026, she took on the German-speaking markets and the Benelux territories, which are Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Most of Skydance International is now led from Los Angeles by JB Perrette. Sulebakk's role sits within that wider structure, which means decisions about the region's services and content are shaped from outside Europe.

She also pointed to possible partnerships with YouTube. She talked about windowing too. A window is the period when a film or series is licensed to one particular service, and she named Netflix, Prime Video and Hulu as platforms where such arrangements could fall. She did not give details of any deal, and no agreement has been announced.

For the people who make and watch this material in Europe, the questions are practical. Who signs off on local shows? Which platforms carry which titles, and for how long? Sulebakk's comments do not answer those questions yet. They do show that the European business is still being planned in public, one conference at a time.