A special committee of the Paramount Global board decided at a meeting Saturday to begin talking with Sony and Apollo following the expiration of a month-long negotiating window with Skydance on Friday night.The committee met over the weekend to consider its approach to the preliminary $26 billion cash bid, including the assumption of debt, made jointly by the entertainment giant and global private equity film. But the David Ellison studio is still in the mix as Paramount seeks to continue those talks – just non-exclusively.