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This week, Kim Masters talked to one person who isn’t thrilled about Josh Greenstein’s new job as co-chair of the Skydance Motion Picture Group: Gerry Rich, the former Paramount marketing chief who hired Greenstein in 2005. Rich’s new memoir contains some score-settling—and he makes no secret of his doubts about how Greenstein’s arrangement will actually work.

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A Paramount “Betrayal” & Dana Walden’s P.R. Whiff

KIM MASTERS

Longtime Hollywood marketing executive Gerry Rich’s new memoir follows his varied film career, and happens to detail a savage power struggle with Josh Greenstein—as of last week, the co-head of Skydance’s massive film unit.

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The Ari Emanuel Fact-Check

KIM MASTERS

Ovitz, Diller, and others would like to request some clarifications to ‘Roll the Calls.’

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Warners Execs Stare Down the Ellison Era

KIM MASTERS

With the merger all but done, and those billions in synergies waiting to be realized, the center of anxiety in Hollywood might be at Warner Bros., where a whole suite of executives will have to decipher the Ellison way.

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