Paramount Pictures COO Andrew Gumpert said it was a bad cold — not cold feet –that led Paramount chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos to bow out as Saturday's keynote speaker at the 42nd Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium at the university's Freud Playhouse. Gumpert joked that Gianopulos Friday evening call to his…

Weeks after he left Sony Pictures and his longtime post as head of business affairs, Andrew Gumpert has joined Paramount Pictures as chief operating officer. The appointment was made by Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey. At the same time, longtime COO Frederick Huntsberry is leaving Paramount after a decade there…

This just hit out of Sony’s Motion Picture Group: Andrew Gumpert is exiting as head of business affairs this week. Mike Marshall is being promoted to president of business affairs for Columbia Pictures as part of the shakeup, the latest since Tom Rothman came aboard to run the group. The move comes as Lone Star…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has changed up its business affairs ranks and streamlined operations under one reporting structure overseen by the newly promoted Andrew Gumpert, who becomes President, Worldwide Business Affairs and Operations for the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group. He moves over from…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted Gelena Weissman to VP Head of Business Affairs Administration and Rey Cuerdo to VP Business Affairs Administration. They will oversee and manage development and production deals at Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Cuerdo will report to Weissman…

CULVER CITY, Calif., January 10, 2011 – Michael Marshall has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Business Affairs, it was announced today by Andrew Gumpert, President of Worldwide Business Affairs and Operations for Columbia Pictures. In that role, he will continue to negotiate development and production…

Culver City, CA – November 30, 2010 – Andrew Gumpert has been promoted to President, Worldwide Business Affairs and Operations for Columbia Pictures, it was announced today by Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment and Amy Pascal, co-chairman, to whom he will jointly report. Gumpert will work…