Paramount Pictures Chief Operating Officer Andrew Gumpert Expands Role To Include Nickelodeon Studios

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Team,As we continue to identify synergies and optimize the strengths of our business across theatrical, streaming, and linear, leaning into the goal of future proofing our financials that I outlined for 2022, I want to let you know about a key leadership update. Effective immediately, Andrew Gumpert, Paramount Pictures Chief Operating Officer, will be expanding his role to encompass Nickelodeon Studios, serving now as Chief Operating Officer, Paramount Pictures & Nickelodeon Studios, reporting into me.Andrew first joined Paramount Pictures as COO in 2017.

Wilson Chapman editorAndrew Gumpert, the chief operating officer of Paramount Pictures, will expand his duties to additionally serve as the COO of Nickelodeon Studios.The news was announced by Paramount Pictures president and chief executive officer Brian Robbins on Monday, via an internal memo sent to employees. The news is another major move toward consolidating Paramount and Nickelodeon’s leadership, after Robbins was tapped to serve as president this past September.

Steve Raizes has been named executive vice president of podcasting and audio at Paramount, an expanded role in which he will lead audio initiatives at CBS News in addition to Paramount’s podcasting unit.

While the romcom adventure film starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum has some work to do to turn a profit with its reported $68-70 million budget, it still stands as the third Paramount film to open to No. 1 at the box office. After having a very limited presence in theaters last year, Paramount found some theatrical success in the early stages of 2022 with low-budget offerings “Scream” and “Jackass Forever” and is now hoping to find more with this pricier mid-budget film catering to a different demographic than the mostly 18-35 male crowd that has defined the theatrical market.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAnnapurna’s chief content officer Sue Naegle is stepping down from her post, Variety has confirmed.The show business veteran had served as Annapurna CEO Megan Ellison’s top content executive for nearly six years, and helped buttress the indie company through the pandemic and other periods of great uncertainty. Naegle is said to be focusing on her forthcoming slate as a producer, and some of those projects were developed and will continue at Annapurna. Insiders close to the company said that Naegle will not be replaced, and the current leadership structure will move to absorb her duties.

EXCLUSIVE: Sue Naegle is leaving Annapurna after five and a half years at Megan Ellison’s film and TV company, most recently as Chief Content Officer, overseeing film as well two divisions she has been instrumental in launching, television and theater. Naegle’s departure is said to be amicable and she is expected to focus on producing, including a number projects she put in development while at Annapurna.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTV streaming provider FuboTV announced Henry Ahn, a longtime television executive most recently at TelevisaUnivision, has been hired to the newly created position of chief business officer.Ahn will start in early April at the company’s New York City headquarters and report directly to David Gandler, co-founder and CEO. In conjunction with this appointment, Ahn will give up his current role on FuboTV’s board of directors after joining the board in July 2020.Also Friday, FuboTV announced that Julie Haddon, an owner of the NWSL’s Chicago Red Stars and a former NFL exec, has been named to its board of directors.