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Paramount Regime's First Deal: Dana Goldberg & Josh Greenstein Land Hot James Mangold & Timothée Chalamet Chernin Package ‘High Side'
EXCLUSIVE: It only took five hours into a new studio regime for incoming Paramount Pictures Co-Chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein to put some bounce into the Melrose lot. Deadline can reveal they have closed on the town's hottest package, and their first bright shiny new film package will be High Side, re-teaming A Complete Unknown's James Mangold and Timothée Chalamet. Peter Chernin and David Ready are attached to produce on behalf of Chernin Entertainment alongside Mangold. More from Deadline New Paramount Execs Address CBS News Independence; Ombudsman Will Be "A Transparency Vehicle, Not An Oversight Vehicle" David Ellison, Jeff Shell & Paramount Team Queried On Trump, Tech, Layoffs, Cable, Late Night & More At Debut Press Conference Paramount Sets Pay For Top Executives As Merger Closes Deadline revealed the project earlier this week. It's based on an original, unpublished story by Jaime Oliveira, who is also adapting the screenplay. It's Heat meets Hell or High Water, mixed in with one of those Bruce Springsteen songs about tragic brother relationship. Chalamet will play a former MotoGP racer, haunted by a career-ending crash and a family legacy of abandonment. He's running a garage and tending to his drug addict father. When dad dies, he's drawn back into the world of high-speed risks and extreme danger, when his estranged brother, already being pursued by the FBI, recruits him for a series of bank robberies on superbikes. 'We're thrilled to be in business with visionary artists like James and Timothée, and exceptional collaborators like Peter and David at Chernin. What Jaime has created reflects the kind of bold, original storytelling we're committed to championing at Paramount – and we couldn't be more excited to hit the ground running with High Side,' said Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, Co-Chairs of Paramount Pictures. 'David, Dana, and Josh display a real commitment to original, story-driven filmmaking on the big screen and this passion made it easy for Timothée, Peter, and me to land on this project. Timothée is a trusted collaborator, a generational artist, and a person I adore. I can't wait to roll up my sleeves and work together again,' said James Mangold. The project reunites Chernin Entertainment with Mangold after the collaborations on Ford vs Ferrari and The Greatest Showman. Chernin is repped by Brittenham LLP, and Next Wave; Mangold is repped by by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Chalamet by Brian Swardstrom, UTA, Gang Tyre Ramer Brown & Passman Inc and Relevant; Oliveira by Sugar23 and Yorn, Levine, Barnes. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More Solve the daily Crossword
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2 days ago
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Mike Ireland Exiting Role As Head Of Motion Picture Group At Paramount
EXCLUSIVE: With the Skydance merger expected to close on Thursday, the exec shuffle continues at Paramount Studios as sources tell Deadline that Motion Picture Group Chief Mike Ireland is exiting the studio. Insiders say Ireland will stay on in a consulting role to help with the transition and is considering an offer for a producing deal with the studio. This comes following a number new of roles being announced which include Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein being named Co-Chairs of Paramount Pictures with Goldberg being Chair of Paramount Television and Greenstein being Vice Chair of Platforms and Don Granger leading film at the studio. More from Deadline Skydance Unveils Board Of New Paramount With Former Studio Chief Sherry Lansing, Oracle CEO Safra Catz Revived Paramount TV Studios To Be Led By Matt Thunell; Will Absorb Taylor Sheridan Home MTVE, Showtime & Skydance TV; Keith Cox Staying On Jane Wiseman & Efrain Miron Poised To Join Cindy Holland At Paramount's DTC Unit - The Dish RELATED: Ireland joined the studio in November 2020, and the well-liked exec quickly was named co-president of production alongside Daria Cercek in January 2021. The two would be named co-heads of the Motion Picture Group in fall of 2021 and over the next four-plus years would oversee a strong slate of hits that include the massive relaunch of the Top Gun franchise, with Maverick grossing more than $1 billion at the box office and landing a Best Picture Oscar nomination. During that time the studio also released two more Mission: Impossible pics, expanded the Quiet Place universe with A Quiet Place: Day One and rebooted the Transformers franchise with Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Prior to joining Paramount, Ireland worked at Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way in 2007, where he helped develop projects including The Wolf of Wall Street. He left Appian Way to join then-20th Century Fox in 2012, where he most recently was SVP Production and oversaw a slate of big-budget movies including the Ryan Reynolds action comedy Free Guy. RELATED: Best of Deadline Emmys 2024 Red Carpet Executives Photo Gallery Solve the daily Crossword
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4 days ago
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Paramount TV Studios Reborn Under Skydance, One Year After Shutting Down
A year ago, Paramount Television Studios was shuttered in a cost-cutting move as its parent company prepared to merge with Skydance. With that deal on the verge of closing, the new Paramount is reviving the Paramount TV Studios name — which will in turn absorb one of the company's two remaining studio operations as well as the formerly independent Skydance Television. More from The Hollywood Reporter David Ellison Sets His Team: These Are the People Who Will Run the New Paramount 'The Naked Gun': What the Critics Are Saying Samantha Bee Laments 'Late Show' Cancellation: "It's Awful" Skydance TV president Matt Thunell is set to lead Paramount TV Studios, reporting to Dana Goldberg, the newly named co-chair of Paramount Pictures (with Josh Greenstein) and chair of Paramount Television. Reps for Skydance and Paramount hadn't returned a request for comment as of publication time. The reconstituted Paramount TV Studios will house productions currently under Showtime/MTV Entertainment, the home of prolific creator Taylor Sheridan (the Yellowstone-verse, Landman et al), key Showtime series like the Dexter franchise and Yellowjackets, and Netflix's Emily in Paris, among others. It will also be home to Skydance productions including Prime Video's Reacher and Cross — which were co-productions with the former Paramount TV Studios. Paramount announced in August 2024 that PTVS, then led by Nicole Clemens, would shut down. Its productions — including the aforementioned Reacher and Cross and Apple TV+'s Murderbot — moved to CBS Studios. The shutdown was part of a wave of cost-cutting moves, which included hundreds of layoffs, in the year-plus leading up to the merger, which is set to formally close on Aug. 7. Former Paramount co-CEO Chris McCarthy previously headed Showtime/MTV Entertainment but will not remain with the merged company after the deal closes. Keith Cox, head of scripted at Showtime/MTV Entertainment, is expected to stay on; Cox has a long working relationship with Sheridan and David C. Glasser, the head of 101 Studios which co-produces Sheridan's shows and Showtime's The Agency. Thunell became president of Skydance TV in late 2022 after nearly eight years at Netflix, where he oversaw development and production of series in the U.S. and Canada. Former Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks will have CBS Studios in his portfolio as the merged company's chair of TV media, which also includes the CBS network and the company's cable channels. Deadline first reported the news. Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire Solve the daily Crossword
