Within the 3 -billion dollar fight for the future of 'South Park' '

The premiere for the 27th season of South Park Later this month, in a serious doubt in the middle of the wrangling between the creators of the series, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Paramount Global and incident studio owner Skydance. The Hollywood reporter learned.

At the center of the dispute: A new 10-year overall contract of $ 3 billion for Parker and Stone, which would be more than tripled in 2027, the persons familiar with the situation. Park County, the South Park The couple's entertainment company is of the opinion that it impressed a basic framework with Paramount Global about an agreement. “I think that the prerequisite of Paramount was interested in a wider area of possibilities when Skydance and Redbird had been approved,” says an insider near the negotiations.

The parachute jump, which claims that it has the rights of approval in contracts because it pursues the official approval of his merger with Paramount, has other plans. The duration of the proposed agreement has proven to be a sticking point in the negotiations, with the parachute case rejecting an extension over five years over a fast -moving media environment in which prioritization of cash reserves prioritized.

“There is no solution at this point, but everyone involved recognizes the need for a quick, positive solution,” said a spokesman for Park County on Monday. Skydance and Paramount rejected a statement. A Skydance representative had previously told Th. that “according to the provisions of the transaction agreement, the case of the case has the right to approve material contracts”.

It is increasingly likely that the dispute will end in court. Parker and Stone brought Bryan Freedman with him, a prominent lawyer and bulldog negotiation leader, who is known for aggressive legal maneuvers to improve a lawsuit in which the SkyDance regime is accused -including CEO David Ellison and Jeff Shell, the President of the new paramount when the Merger is Greenlit is in the negotiation contracts. The alternative includes a PR fight in which Skydance sprays its name as another example of an acute entertainment processing over the headlines.

The potential delay of the premiere of the 27th season, which was pushed back two weeks later, has arisen as the most visible example of the damage caused by the delay of the approval of the paramount skydance combination. The relationship between Parker and Stone, the most sought -after creative duos in Hollywood, and Skydance is questioned, as well as the future of the show after more than 28 years and 300.

“This merger is a shit and it fucks South Park. We are in the studio and work on new episodes and hope that the fans will somehow see them, “Parker and Stone wrote on July 2 in a social media contribution.

South Park is in the possession of Paramount, in which streaming rights belong to a joint venture Parker and Stone, which is operated with the company called South Park Digital Studios, which is ruled by a five-member board of managers, which includes Paramount partner comedy partners. The series is produced by Park County.

Park County has an exceptionally unusual offer from 2007, which gives the company around 50 percent of streaming income from the joint venture. South Park Was a juggernach in a linear television and on DVD when the streaming video still escapes. Park County began to stream episodes on a dedicated website with advertising support, although later Premium subscription services such as Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and of course Paramount+would change how streaming videos were dramatically monetized.

Streaming offers for the show expired on June 23, which forced an expansion of a domestic contract with Warner Bros. Discovery to keep it on HBO Max for the time being. Last week the international license from Paramount+ran to stream the episodes of the long -term animation series, which led to the streamer directed the series from its global service.

Paramount and Park County both take a hard attitude of the negotiations. When she recently recorded discussions, Kevin Morris, a lawyer from Park County, rejected himself from a decade of deal worth at least $ 3 billion. In recent years, Morris has become a nationally known personality for his years of legal and financial support for Hunter Biden.

Chris McCarthy from Paramount, who runs the company with two other co-CEOs, monitors the streaming and television programming page of the studio and the COO Keyes Hill-Edgar negotiations.

The deal of Paramount Skydance was largely due to his own political dimension with President Donald Trump and a lawsuit against 60 minutes about an interview with Kamala Harris.

A possible factor in the negotiations: a loan of 800 million US dollars that Park County recorded in 2023 by private equity company The Carlyle Group. Parker and Stone could be squeezed for cash to repay around 80 million US dollars per year, according to a person who is familiar with the agreement that was found that Paramount could pay in a new deal, but not for 10 years, more than $ 150 million a year.

After thinking of SkyDance, the provisional company contract gives the company the right to approve and refuse all material contracts. Park County has claimed that the parachute case is exposed to control and the issuance of guidelines until the merger of the merger. A legal dispute brews.

“We hereby demand that you, Redbird and Skydance immediately hire your interference,” said the letter that Park County sent to Shell on June 21.

July 14th, 8:18 p.m. Updated to characterize the new 10 billion dollar overall contract than to have the evaluation of the previous offer more than earned.