Premium content: This is from our forthcoming subscriber-exclusive Media Miss newsletter, where we will take you inside the algorithms and agendas shaping what you see. Media Mechanics As media mogul and Trump ally David Ellison seeks to close the largest deal in Hollywood history — valued at some $111 billion — just about everybody, it seems, has their fingers pointed at Paramount Skydance. On Monday, the bid by Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros. hit its biggest snag to date after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order. The order blocks Paramount from finalizing the transaction for two weeks as legal battles seeking to block the deal heat up in court. The news comes after a busy, whirlwind week for lawyers at Paramount, which was slapped with three separate federal lawsuits that seek to stop the consolidation.