{"id":118672,"date":"2025-08-04T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118672\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:07:13","slug":"don-granger-to-lead-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118672\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Granger To Lead Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>We are hearing that Don Granger<\/a>, Skydance President of Features and Skydance Sports, is making the jump to the new Paramount after the merger goes through August 7. The three-decade production veteran will lead film under Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, the new co-Chairs of Paramount Pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tGranger has worked on Skydance co-productions such as Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise\u2019s highest-grossing movie and Paramount\u2019s highest global-grossing movie ever at $1.49 billion. He also has worked on Skydance movies like The Old Guard 2, Mayday, Balls Up, Way of the Warrior Kid and Matchbox.<\/p>\n

\n\tGranger is also involved with leading Nocturna, the horror label formed with Andy & Barbara Muschietti that focuses on high-quality horror features for global audiences in both theatrical and streaming. That label\u2019s first title is They Will Kill You. He also serves as the executive producer of Skydance\u2019s Reacher TV series.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther pics Granger has worked on include Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning, Fountain of Youth, The Gorge, The Family Plan, Heart of Stone, Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning, Spy Kids: Armageddon, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Ghosted, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, The Adam Project, The Tomorrow War, Tom Clancy\u2019s Without Remorse, The Old Guard, 6 Underground, Mission: Impossible \u2013 Fallout, Terminator: Dark Fate, Jack Reacher and Mission: Impossible \u2013 Rogue Nation.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore Skydance, he was President of Motion Picture Production at United Artists, running day-to-day for five years. Prior to that, he oversaw production, development, and operations at Tom Cruise\u2019s C\/W Productions as a senior executive, where he helped bring War of the Worlds, Mission: Impossible III and Cameron Crowe\u2019s Elizabethtown to the screen.<\/p>\n

\n\tLike Greenstein, Granger is also a Paramount vet. Before Cruise\u2019s C\/W, he was EVP Motion Picture Production at the Melrose Ave lot overseeing such franchises as Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, the Tom Clancy movies and Oscar winner Saving Private Ryan among several other titles. Before Paramount, Granger was a creative executive and producer at the Mutual Film Company, which made the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies, The Weintraub Entertainment Group, and Touchstone Pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that Don Granger, Skydance President of Features and Skydance Sports, is making the jump…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,74124,51039,31793,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-118672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-don-granger","10":"tag-paramount-skydance-merger","11":"tag-the-dish","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114971596904284666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}