One boss for two studios: Goldstine to run marketing for Paramount and Warner Bros.
One executive will now decide how films from both Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. get to cinemas.
Josh Goldstine is being tapped as head of marketing and distribution for all Skydance film labels, including Paramount and Warner Bros., Deadline reported on 7 October 2026. The news landed a day after the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger closed on Tuesday.
Goldstine will oversee all marketing and distribution across Paramount, Warner Bros. and any other film labels under the Skydance banner. In plain terms, that covers trailers and posters, release-date choices and the booking of films into cinemas. Domestic means the United States and Canada, plus all overseas markets. Theatrical distribution is the arm that places films in cinemas and tracks ticket money.
Four senior staff will report to him in the new structure. They are Dana Nussbaum, Christian Davin, John Stanford and Jeff Goldstein, who is president of global theatrical distribution.
It is a familiar circuit for Goldstine. He joined Paramount in October 2025 as president of worldwide marketing and distribution, with the appointment effective immediately, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. He had been in final talks for the job in September 2025 as Marc Weinstock was exiting the studio, according to Deadline. Before that he served as president of worldwide marketing at Warner Bros., arriving in January 2021 and departing in January 2025.
His recent Paramount work includes leading the marketing campaign for Scary Movie. That film opened to a franchise-record $105.5 million worldwide, Paramount said on 7 June 2026. In May 2026 he also appeared at Licensing Expo 2026 to argue for the future of theatrical release.
The appointment caps a fast ownership shuffle. David Ellison acquired Paramount in August ahead of Goldstine's October arrival. That $8 billion Skydance-Paramount merger, as described by Variety, created the organisation Goldstine first joined, now expanded to include Warner Bros. Skydance is the company led by Ellison that now controls the combined studios.
For film fans, this means a single calendar. One centralised team will choose when trailers drop, which holidays the biggest titles claim and how they roll out around the world.
