Veteran film executive Jim Gianopulos took the reins at the Los Angeles studio in 2017. Since then, Paramount has been through a major merger and industry tumult.
The surprising box-office success of “A Quiet Place,” a low-budget movie about a family under attack from creatures who hunt by sound, could hardly have come at a better time for Paramount Pictures and its chief executive, Jim Gianopulos.ViacomCBS is making a push to compete in streaming with Paramount+, rebranded from CBS All Access earlier this year.
Robbins, whose promotion was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is said to have been interested in the Paramount job for some time. His career, which spans TV, film directing and digital media, helped make him a favored candidate within ViacomCBS, which is controlled by Shari Redstone, the daughter of the late media mogul Sumner Redstone.
AwesomenessTV changed ownership multiple times and faced the same challenges as other companies that emerged during the short-lived boom of so-called multichannel networks. The company was bought by DreamWorks Animation, which was absorbed by Comcast Corp., which later sold AwesomenessTV to Viacom.
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