The move comes after the ouster of Jim Gianopulos as the CEO and chairman of the studio.
In her post, Watts oversaw film operations at Paramount and Paramount Players, the latter being the studio label founded by Robbins that he later left to run the company’s massive children’s network. Under Watts and Gianopulos, several key executives were hired, including Jeremy Kramer, who now runs Paramount Players, and Daria Cercek and Michael Ireland, who were named co-presidents of production at the top of this year.
Prior to Paramount, Watts served as the longtime president of production at 20th Century Fox. She continued on with the company, later renamed 20th Century Studios, after its acquisition by Disney, one of the few top Fox execs to survive the Disney/Fox tumult. Watts’ impressive resume includes themovies.
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