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HOLLYWOOD, June 4, 2010 – Marc Evans has been promoted to President of Production, Paramount Pictures, it was announced today by Adam Goodman, President of the Paramount Film Group. Evans will continue to report to Goodman in his new role.
Evans, who is currently Executive Vice President of Production of Paramount Pictures, joined the company in 2003 as Vice President of Production. He has supervised production on such Paramount releases as “Star Trek,” “Mission: Impossible III” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” He is currently supervising upcoming titles such as “Transformers 3,” “Super 8”, “Rango,” “Morning Glory,” “The Last Airbender” and the fourth “Mission: Impossible” installment, which is slated to start production in August.
“Marc has grown into an invaluable contributor to the creative process and he is a natural choice to fill this role,” said Goodman. “His track record demonstrates his great ability to juggle highly complex productions with complete grace and ease. He has terrific relationships, a passion for filmmakers, and a great work ethic. We felt it very important to find someone within our outstanding team to fill this position, and we’re all so excited to be working with Marc in this new capacity.”
Prior to joining Paramount, Evans served as Executive Vice President of Laura Ziskin Productions, and Vice President of Industry Entertainment. He spent five years before that as Program Director of the Chicago International Film Festival.
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Couldn’t happen to a better guy. Congrats, Marc!
Paramount is so behind the times…
They are the only studio out there still hiring insiders with obsolete skills and running ops like it was the 90′s.
As opposed to which studio, Universal?
Nonsense.
Evans Rocks!!
I totally agree. Now if they would just stop making incredibly profitable films, everyone else would realize what idiots they all are.
Not a shock. One of the truly good guys….works hard, actually has a passion for film, politically adept, can handle filmmakers, Evans is going to go further than this.
What do you get when you drive David Fincher away from the studio? A promotion!
Hey Marc, JJ called what time can you wash the cars this weekend?
Further proof that you can be dumb, lazy and rude and Adam Goodman will make room for you.
This is hilarious. As the industry herd is thinned, the ranks from which to promote get absurdly dumbed down, and you up with absurd choices, like this, to run a major studio. Say what you will about the bubble in our industry over the last fifteen years, but it attracted smart people. Now, this is what’s left. What a shame.
“Still hiring insiders with obsolete skills and running ops like it was the 90’s.”
This is soooooooo true. I help service a couple higher-ups there with the information they run around with, what properties are worth looking into, info they then take to Monday morning meetings– They are CLUELESS.
Maybe if they had the good sense to hire people who KNOW film and WATCH films as opposed to those whose lives is all about their homes in the Palisades, their 2.2 dysfunctional kids, their borderline personality disorder failed-actress wives, which Brentwood restaurant on Vicente to patronize tonight etc.–
Ew.
This guy is supposed to be nice, good, etc., but man, if ever there was a studio that needed someone with KNOWLEDGE and EDGE aboard, it is up there on the icy mountain top–
Hellllooooooo, anybody home????
Niet.
ps Adam, if you are really wanting the counter-intelligence one-two-punch, why not hire a culture vulture like me for 1/5 th of Sr Veep Of Prod’s salary and THEN you’ll have all bases covered… Putting the red flag in the potted plant, on the balcony… What movie reference? Exactly.
Marc’s the man. Nicer than Kermit the Frog. Smarter than Einstein. More teflon than Reagan. I love him even though he owes me $20. Congrats dude.
He’s the best executive in town! Couldn’t be happier for him. So well deserved.
Good for Marc. Deserved…
“He is currently supervising upcoming titles such as “Transformers 3,” “Super 8”, “Rango,” “Morning Glory,” “The Last Airbender” and the fourth “Mission: Impossible” installment, which is slated to start production in August.”
Transformers 3: No-brainer.
Super 8: same.
Rango: disaster.
Morning Glory: double disaster.
The Last Airbender: Massive epic disaster.
Not a stellar start there, Marc. Good luck though.
What a truly shocking development — that ‘The Mountain’ should hire an executive about whom it is virtually impossible to truthfully say anything bad. Like Sean Bailey, Marc is a good guy, a smart guy, a hard-working guy and a guy who has real experience in production. One almost dares to feel some optimism about this particular ‘changing of the guard’…
A brilliant executive. Congrats, Marc. Well-deserved.
Please let Transformers 3 be the last!
ME was a driving force behind the Star Trek re-boot and one of the few execs who is actually real-world intelligent and not just movie-smart. Looking forward to seeing what happens next at Par.
I’ve had the pleasure of observing and limited interaction with Marc since he arrived at Paramount. What a pleasure to see Paramount get it right. Perfect for the job, earned the job, earned the respect of his peers in the business, oh and one other thing — he’s actually real, down to earth with his priorities in the right place. I speak for a lot of his co-workers when I say an enthusiastic Congrats!! They could not have picked a better leader for the MP Group
say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss…
Really smart promotion. One of the most skilled, effective and grounded execs in town. Besides being one of the good guys and having a fierce work ethic, Evans has got teeth and toughness to back it all up.