Former DC Movies President Walter Hamada Joins Paramount With Multi-Yr Deal

Walter Hamada is becoming a member of Paramount after spending the final 4 years because the president of DC Movies.

Former DC Movies president Walter Hamada has signed a multi-year cope with Paramount Footage, the studio introduced on Tuesday. Below the phrases of the deal, Hamada is ready to steer Paramount’s mainstream style horror films starting on January 1, 2023.

“Together with his monitor file for groundbreaking success, Walter is the perfect accomplice and visionary to construct out our mainstream horror style franchise enterprise,” mentioned Brian Robbins, President and CEO of Paramount Footage. “As evidenced by the improbable efficiency of Smile, there’s a large urge for food for authentic, high-concept storytelling within the international market, and we look ahead to an extended and profitable partnership.”

Walter Hamada added: “I’m thrilled to collaborate with Paramount Footage with the singular purpose of making distinctive films within the horror style. Over the course of my profession, nothing has been extra gratifying than discovering rising, first-time filmmakers and writers and unleashing their brilliance in a studio setting. Thanks to Brian and your complete workforce at Paramount Footage for this large alternative, I can’t wait to get began.”

Walter Hamada kicked off his tenure as the top of DC Movies with the discharge of 2018’s Aquaman, which is at the moment the highest-grossing DC Comics film thus far with earnings north of $1.4 billion globally. He left his submit at DC Movies this previous October, simply earlier than the discharge of the Dwayne Johnson starrer Black Adam.

Warner Bros. Discovery changed Walter Hamada with James Gunn and Peter Safran, with two now main the studio’s DC Studios division, which has changed DC Movies. Nevertheless, WBD’s 4 2023 DC Universe releases — Shazam! Fury of the Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom — have been all overseen by Hamada.

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