Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaParamount Pictures is looking to revive Paramount Players, a sleepy label it launched to back properties with a contemporary feel in 2017.
Jeremy Kramer, a 20th Century Fox executive, is at the top of a shortlist to lead the shingle, but there’s no deal in place.
If Kramer gets tapped, it will mark a reunion with Emma Watts, the motion picture group president who joined Paramount in June after a long run at Fox.
Watts had soured on the direction that Fox was taking after it was purchased by the Walt Disney Company and was convinced to make the leap by Paramount Chairman Jim Gianopulos, the former Fox studios chief.
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