EXCLUSIVE: With the Skydance merger anticipated to shut on Thursday, the exec shuffle continues at Paramount Studios as sources inform Deadline that Movement Image Group Chief Mike Eire is exiting the studio. Insiders say Eire will keep on in a consulting function to assist with the transition and is contemplating a suggestion for a producing take care of the studio.
This comes following a quantity new of roles being introduced which embrace Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein being named Co-Chairs of Paramount Photos with Goldberg being Chair of Paramount Tv and Greenstein being Vice Chair of Platforms and Don Granger main movie on the studio.
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Eire joined the studio in November 2020, and the favored exec shortly was named co-president of manufacturing alongside Daria Cercek in January 2021. The 2 could be named co-heads of the Movement Image Group in fall of 2021 and over the following four-plus years would oversee a powerful slate of hits that embrace the large relaunch of the Prime Gun franchise, with Maverick grossing greater than $1 billion on the field workplace and touchdown a Finest Image Oscar nomination. Throughout that point the studio additionally launched two extra Mission: Unimaginable pics, expanded the Quiet Place universe with A Quiet Place: Day One and rebooted the Transformers franchise with Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
Previous to becoming a member of Paramount, Eire labored at Leonardo DiCaprio’s manufacturing firm Appian Means in 2007, the place he helped develop tasks together with The Wolf of Wall Road. He left Appian Method to be a part of then-Twentieth Century Fox in 2012, the place he most not too long ago was SVP Manufacturing and oversaw a slate of big-budget motion pictures together with the Ryan Reynolds motion comedy Free Man.