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Mike Ireland & Daria Cercek Named Co-Heads Of Paramount Motion Picture Group
Following Emma Watts’ departure as President of the Motion Picture Film Group, her Co-Presidents of Production Mike Ireland and Daria Cercek are being elevated to run the film group now as co-heads.
Ireland and Cercek will report directly to Brian Robbins, President and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures…
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Emma Watts Leaving Paramount As Motion Picture President
In what has been heavily expected in the wake of Jim Gianopulos’ departure from Paramount as CEO and Chairman, the studio’s Motion Picture President Emma Watts is leaving the Melrose lot. Deadline has confirmed the news.
Watts has been in the position since July 20, 2020, and rejoined with her former Fox Boss…
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Wes Ball Tethers His Oddball Entertainment Banner To First-Look Paramount Pictures Deal
EXCLUSIVE: Wes Ball and his Oddball Entertainment banner are moving into a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures. It reunites him with Emma Watts, the Paramount Motion Pictures Group President who gave Ball his start when she headed Fox and he directed the Maze Runner trilogy for the studio.
Ball runs Oddball with Joe…
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Paramount Sets Jeff Nichols To Write And Direct New Pic In ‘A Quiet Place’ Universe Based On John Krasinski Idea
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is broadening its A Quiet Place franchise. The studio has set Jeff Nichols to write and direct the third film, which is based on an original idea by John Kraskinski. Studio has set a 2022 release date. Krasinski co-wrote and directed the original, and wrote and directed the sequel, which…
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Jeremy Kramer Officially Named President Of Paramount Players
Following the news Deadline broke that he was the front-runner for the role, 20th Century Studios executive Jeremy Kramer has officially been appointed president of Paramount Players. Kramer, who will report to his former Fox colleague and now Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group President Emma Watts, begins his…
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Emma Watts Is Reviving Paramount Players And Is Down To Short List Of Execs To Run It: Watch Jeremy Kramer
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is getting ready to rev up Paramount Players, the shingle that was formed around Brian Robbins several years ago to generate niche, genre and cutting edge films. It hasn’t had a president, or much output, since Robbins left to run Nickelodeon. Emma Watts is looking to revive the label and…
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Key Paramount Film Exec Elizabeth Raposo Exits Studio: Read The Memo
Paramount Pictures president of production Elizabeth Raposo has exited the studio. This has been a rumor around town ever since Wyck Godfrey exited after Emma Watts became president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group in late June. Godfrey and Raposo worked closely together.
Raposo is an effective exec and she will…
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Emma Watts’ Top Priority At Paramount: Figure Out ‘Star Trek’ Reboot
EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Paramount’s plan to next make the Star Trek movie that Noah Hawley wrote and plans to direct has been put on pause for a moment. New film chief Emma Watts, who managed many a franchise at Fox, is in the process of figuring out which way to go.
The pause on the Hawley project, which had been in…
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Emma Watts Named President, Motion Picture Group At Paramount
BREAKING: Paramount Pictures today tapped former Twentieth Century Fox film executive Emma Watts to be President, Paramount Motion Picture Group, reporting to Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos. Watts will begin her new position effective July 20th.
She rejoins Gianopulos, who was her boss for many…
Emma Watts Leaves Disney’s 20th Century Studios
UPDATED WITH RESPONSES FROM JAMES CAMERON, JON LANDAU & PATRICK WHITESELL: Emma Watts has just resigned as President of Production at 20th Century Studios. Her existing creative team remains in place, and a new leader is expected to be named in the coming weeks. Disney reports there are no current changes to 20th…
Kay Oyegun To Script ‘Children Of Blood And Bone’ For Fox/Disney; Looks To Be First Lucasfilm Pic Project That Isn’t ‘Star Wars’ Or ‘Indiana Jones’
EXCLUSIVE: Disney is giving a full embrace to Children of Blood and Bone, the action fantasy film based on the bestselling novel by Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi that originated as a Fox 2000 property.
This Is Us writer Kay Oyegun is making a deal to write a new script adaptation of the epic fantasy with Rick…
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Forget The Rumors, Emma Watts Staying At Fox/Disney
EXCLUSIVE: Despite a wave of rumors she might be headed for the executives suites of Paramount or Warner Bros, Emma Watts is staying put at Fox/Disney. Deadline hears that the vice chairman and head of production is in the middle of formalizing a plan with the studio to stay on in the future and continue to steer…
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