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LANSING TO STEP DOWN AS CHAIRMAN OF PARAMOUNT Tuesday, November 2 2004 
Paramount
Chairman
Sherry
Lansing
plans
to
leave
her
post
when
her
contract
expires
next
year,
the
Los
Angeles
Times
and
the
Wall
Street
Journal
reported
today
(Tuesday),
citing
sources
familiar
with
the
situation.
The
newspapers
observed
that
the
studio
has
experienced
a
three-year-long
box-office
slump
and
that
there
are
few
potential
hits
in
its
release
schedule
to
indicate
that
it
will
soon
be
coming
out
of
it.
Lansing,
the
Times
said,
had
considered
resigning
in
(more)DOLGEN FALLS FROM MOUNTAIN Thursday, June 3 2004 Faced with the decision by Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone to place the company's new Co-president and COO Tom Frestone in charge of its movie operations, Paramount Co-chairman Jonathan Dolgen resigned Wednesday, saying that the new management structure effectively wiped out his job. (Les Moonves will oversee the operations of Paramount TV, which had also been a part of Dolgen's bailiwick.) Dolgen was regarded as a tough negotiator who was responsible for Paramount's sweeping retrenchment in (more) |
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Talent manager and sometime producer Brad Grey is about to undergo the test of fire experienced by superagent Michael Ovitz a year ago -- going from seller of talent to buyer. According to a weekend report in the Los Angeles Times, Grey is about to be appointed head of Paramount Pictures, succeeding Sherry Lansing. The newspaper reported today (Monday) that officials of Paramount's parent company Viacom and Grey were finalizing a deal on Sunday that will be presented to Viacom's compensation committee for approval today.
