Skydance Features & Sports President Don Granger To Lead Film At New Paramount Under Dana Goldberg & Josh Greenstein
Granger has worked on Skydance co-productions such as Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise's highest-grossing movie and Paramount's highest global-grossing movie ever at $1.49 billion. He also has worked on Skydance movies like The Old Guard 2, Mayday, Balls Up, Way of the Warrior Kid and Matchbox.
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Granger is also involved with leading Nocturna, the horror label formed with Andy & Barbara Muschietti that focuses on high-quality horror features for global audiences in both theatrical and streaming. That label's first title is They Will Kill You. He also serves as the executive producer of Skydance's Reacher TV series.
Other pics Granger has worked on include Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Fountain of Youth, The Gorge, The Family Plan, Heart of Stone, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Spy Kids: Armageddon, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Ghosted, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, The Adam Project, The Tomorrow War, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, The Old Guard, 6 Underground, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Terminator: Dark Fate, Jack Reacher and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
Before Skydance, he was President of Motion Picture Production at United Artists, running day-to-day for five years. Prior to that, he oversaw production, development, and operations at Tom Cruise's C/W Productions as a senior executive, where he helped bring War of the Worlds, Mission: Impossible III and Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown to the screen.
Like Greenstein, Granger is also a Paramount vet. Before Cruise's C/W, he was EVP Motion Picture Production at the Melrose Ave lot overseeing such franchises as Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, the Tom Clancy movies and Oscar winner Saving Private Ryan among several other titles. Before Paramount, Granger was a creative executive and producer at the Mutual Film Company, which made the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies, The Weintraub Entertainment Group, and Touchstone Pictures.
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