TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Paramount Pictures and Paramount Vantage have let go about 60 employees as part of their ongoing reorganization, according to an internal e-mail written by Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount Pictures, and John Lesher, president of Paramount Film Group, that circulated inside and outside the studio Thursday. On Thursday, Paramount completed the consolidation of marketing, distribution...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The saga of Paramount Vantage arrived at its bloody conclusion this morning, when Rob Moore and John Lesher sent a memo announcing the termination of 60 jobs at the specialty label. The paring down...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... of Hollywood's specialty divisions--had been a big money loser. On the other hand, Vantage founder John Lesher, the one-time Endeavor agent whom Brad Grey hired in late 2005 to reinvent the studio's flagging Paramount Classics art-house wing, got out when the getting was good, Lesher being named president of the Paramount Film Group in January, largely as a reward for putting...
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
HOLLYWOOD, CA (July 15, 2008) – Paramount Film Group President, John Lesher and Paramount Vantage President, Nick Meyer, today announced that Guy Stodel has been appointed Executive Vice President of Production and Acquisitions for Paramount Vantage. Stodel, who will report to Meyer, replaces Amy Israel, who has served as Executive Vice President of Production and [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... for HBO."I'm proud of having been a part of building Paramount Vantage from the ground up under John Lesher, making great films," Israel said. "I love the company we built. It's not the same company. (It) is evolving in a different direction. I wish Vantage the best."Israel joined Paramount Classics in January 2006 from visual effects and animation house the Orphanage, where she was...
