Paramount Animation continues to recruit DreamWorks Animation execs to fill up its leadership roster.
Paramount Pictures has named “The Boss Baby” producer Ramsey Naito to the post of executive vice president at Paramount Animation. Naito received an Oscar nomination for DreamWorks Animation’s “The Boss Baby” along with Tom McGrath. She will report to Paramount Animation’s president, Mireille Soria. Paramount made the announcement Thursday.
Back in the days when I walked around the Paramount lot, going trailer to trailer to see what Paramount Animation was working on, artists mentioned that the upper management at PA seemed to be a little hazy and unfocussed about where they wanted to steer the studio. The product that came out of the place seemed to underscore the point.
Since then, Mireille Soria (a long-time DreamWorks Animation exec) has come on board, and now Ms. Naito. Hopefully they will help goose the profitability and quality of the shop. (There have been a long line of top-notch creative people with good track records -- Mark Dindal, Ed Gombert, Don Hahn, etc. -- who have come through Paramount Animation, but most have departed.)
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