Could the Paramount sale revive the super-studio of old?

The Paramount/Skydance deal is done.

To a specific type of film enthusiast who has followed the history of the business and read lots of books about the Tinseltown of the past, the Paramount Pictures name has a particular meaning.

It was the studio of The Godfather and of the oft-told studio battles that surrounded the making of that film. But even before that, it was home to larger-than-life moguls and studio bosses, from Adolph Zukor in the 1920s to Charlie Bluhdorn in the 1960s. It was where Robert Evans held court in the 1970s and then Don Simpson in the 1980s.