Stephanie Ito Returns To Paramount As President, Post-Production & Innovation

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Stephanie Ito is returning to Paramount as President, Post-Production & Innovation, a little less than one year after departing the studio.

Lee Rosenthal, who serves as President Of Worldwide Physical Production for both Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Studios, made the announcement today in a memo you can read in full below.Ito joins Paramount from Epic Games Studios, where she served as Head of Production, overseeing production, as well as post-production and VFX. In her return to Paramount, she will oversee post-production, editorial and finishing needs for all of the studio’s theatrical and SVOD titles, while implementing new strategies for production capture and exhibition.

Her first day back will be March 16.Ito departed Paramount in March of 2021, after a 16-year run that she her rise to President of Post-Production, becoming the first woman ever to hold that post at any major studio.

During her tenure, she oversaw all aspects of post-production for such franchises as Mission: Impossible, Transformers and Star Trek, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, Silence and The Wolf of Wall Street, and such additional major titles as A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place II, Sonic the Hedgehog, Rocketman, The Big Short, Flight, Interstellar and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.Ito began her career in post at DreamWorks and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.Rosenthal’s memo heralding her return can be found below:Team,I am thrilled to announce that Stephanie Ito will be returning to Paramount Pictures to join our team as President, Post-Production & Innovation.