Tuesday 19 August 2008

Gerry Rich leaving Paramount

Megan Colligan, Josh Greenstein will take up on duties




Gerry Rich is stepping depressed as Paramount's president of worldwide selling, and at his call for will exit the Melrose Avenue studio by the end of August.

His duties will be taken over by Megan Colligan and Josh Greenstein, though they will retain their stream titles as co-presidents of marketing.

Colligan and Greenstein had been handling marketing duties at Paramount Vantage. When Paramount absorbed Vantage's distribution and marketing arms in June, the iI were brought into the parent studio, where they were named co-presidents of marketing.

They will report directly to Paramount vice chairperson Rob Moore.

Rich, who served stints before in his career at Miramax and MGM/UA, linked Paramount in the studio's top marketing post in 2004. Recently, he has been tangled in marketing such top grossers as "Iron Man," "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Kung Fu Panda" that have made Paramount the top-grossing studio apartment of the summer.


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