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EXCLUSIVE: Rumors are racing around Hollywood that Paramount Pictures chairman and CEO Brad Grey is on his way out after a 12-year run. The most widely rumored version is that Grey has packed up his office and canceled a bunch of meetings. The packing up the office rumor isn’t the case — he is not there, but the lot…

It’s a truism in business that planning is easy, but execution is hard. That’s the reality Viacom CEO Bob Bakish faces following the rollout this morning of his sweeping vision to focus the entertainment giant around six TV brands and tie them more closely to the Paramount studio, for example with…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has made its most significant long-term alliance in China since Viacom chief Shari Redstone nixed a 49% stake sale to Dalian Wanda for $4.9 billion last year. The studio has closed deals with Shanghai Film Group Corp and Beijing-based Huahua Media for those companies to fund 25% or more…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Before Brad Grey showed footage from Paramount’s Oscar contenders and future slate highlights in New York last week and in Los Angeles last night, he promised a new chapter for Paramount Pictures. Though brief, his appearances marked his re-emergence as the studio's public face. And really, who could blame…

At 3 o’clock on Thursday afternoon, hours before presenting a rousing reel of his movie highlights for Oscar season and beyond, Paramount Pictures chairman/CEO Brad Grey huddled at a table in the bar of New York’s Carlyle Hotel. Upstairs was his grand, 26th floor apartment, on the market since last year for $22…

Robert S. Moore is leaving his post as vice chairman of Paramount Pictures, people briefed on his departure confirmed Friday. Those people said superiors at Viacom forced his departure after killing the proposed sale of a studio stake to China’s Wanda Group, a sale of which Moore was a strong advocate. It is has been…

In December, Brad Grey and his crew at Paramount Pictures were closing up a miserable quarter. Filmed entertainment revenue at the studio's Viacom parent – which mostly reflects Paramount's performance – was down 15 percent, to $612 million from $720 million in the year-earlier quarter. Theatrical sales, some from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Management 360 has hired Sam Grey from Broadway Video to become a manager and producer. There is precedent for the company to bring back Grey, and there is also evidence he will be able to navigate his way around the talent representation game. He started with Management 360, and he is the son of Brad Grey…

A new weekly column talking up the season with bits and pieces from the awards circuit. Johnny Depp literally was surrounded by AMPAS members — and others — trying to take selfies with him at Thursday’s packed (and I mean packed) luncheon at Craig’s in honor of his Whitey Bulger film, Black Mass. I have been to…

Viacom has extended Brad Grey’s contract as Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures into 2020, providing some stability at a time of uncertainty at the entertainment giant. A studio insider tells Deadline the deal was completed months ago, though it just became public today. The renewal comes as Viacom launches efforts…

The studio’s arrangement with AMC Theatres and Cineplex Entertainment could rattle exhibitors who’ve been fighting efforts to offer new films on home video before they’re done showing in theaters. In the past, exhibitors have been less agreeable with Netflix, which plans to finance movies including Crouching Tiger, Hid…