Business 4 min read By Lauren Baxter
Skydance Sets Leadership Across Games, Experiences, Consumer Products and HR
Skydance president Andy Gordon has locked in leadership for the newly merged company's games, experiences, consumer products, publishing, HR and global operations, while the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery games divisions will be combined into a single team.
Skydance president Andy Gordon has finalized leadership appointments across several divisions outside the newly merged company's film and television operations, covering games and experiences, products and publishing, human resources and global operations.
The company also confirmed that the games and experiences divisions of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be merged into one team, which will oversee projects tied to the combined studio's intellectual property. The consolidation signals how Skydance intends to manage interactive and location-based entertainment as a single unit following the close of the Paramount-WBD merger.
The leadership structure places Gordon at the center of Skydance's non-film and non-television businesses, a portfolio that now spans video games, live experiences, consumer products and publishing. Those areas have become increasingly important to major studios as they look to extend franchises beyond theaters and streaming platforms.
In a separate move, Josh Goldstine has been named head of marketing and distribution for all Skydance film labels, including Paramount and Warner Bros. Goldstine previously oversaw marketing at Paramount Pictures. Following the merger, which closed Tuesday, he will now manage marketing and distribution across the combined film operations.
The film side of the business will continue to operate with a degree of independence. Skydance Motion Picture Group co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein told staff in a Day 1 memo that the Paramount and Warner Bros. motion picture units will operate independently, with an emphasis on preserving the legacies of both studios.
The appointments and structural decisions arrive as Skydance integrates two of Hollywood's most storied film and television companies. The merger has created a larger entity with assets spanning film, television, games, consumer products and experiences, and the leadership announcements are among the first clear signals of how the combined company will be organized.
For the games and experiences team, the merger of Paramount and WBD's divisions means a single group will now manage interactive titles and live activations based on the company's combined catalog of films, franchises and characters. That consolidation could streamline how the studio licenses and develops games and experiences, though specific projects or release plans were not disclosed.
Consumer products and publishing will also fall under the new leadership structure, alongside human resources and global operations. Those functions support the studio's ability to turn its film and television properties into merchandise, books and other extensions, a key revenue stream for major entertainment companies.
The changes do not affect the film divisions' day-to-day operations, according to the memo from Goldberg and Greenstein, which stressed that Paramount and Warner Bros. will maintain their own identities. Marketing and distribution, however, will be overseen by Goldstine across all Skydance film labels, centralizing a function that had previously been handled separately at Paramount.
Skydance has not announced further details about the games and experiences slate or the consumer products roadmap. The leadership appointments are effective as the company moves forward under its new structure.
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