News Summary

• and Paramount will merge this week.
• Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg will oversee the two film studios.
• They will have an aggressive mandate to release 30 theatrical films each year.
• Neither is an obvious choice for the gig, and they haven’t yet developed the name recognition among the general public that even Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy did.
• But they have more than a few admirers who believe they can achieve this lofty goal at a time when their rivals are struggling to make a dozen movies for cinema annually.