Nine months after Warner Bros. pushed him out, the marketing veteran is back with a bigger job, overseeing distribution for every Skydance film label at once.
Josh Goldstine just got the kind of comeback executives dream about. Variety reported Monday night that the marketing veteran will oversee marketing and distribution across Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures and every film label that now sits under the Skydance banner. Deadline confirmed the move hours later.
The irony is hard to miss. Goldstine was the guy Warner Bros. Showed the door in January 2025, dismissed by then motion picture chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy after four years running the studio's worldwide marketing. That exit came at the tail end of a rough 2024 for WB, a year that gave the studio both expensive misses like "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" and "Joker: Folie à Deux" and genuine hits in "Dune: Part Two," "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" and "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."
He didn't stay out of work long. By October 2025, Goldstine had landed at Paramount Pictures as president of worldwide marketing and distribution, reporting to co-chairs Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg, right after David Ellison closed his deal to acquire the studio. Now, with the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger officially done, he's inheriting both companies' marketing operations at once.
That's a lot of reporting lines suddenly pointing in one direction. Per Variety's sourcing, Goldstine met Tuesday with Warner Bros. Marketing executives Dana Nussbaum, Christian Davin and John Stanford, along with Jeff Goldstein, the studio's president of global theatrical distribution. All four will now answer to him under the new structure.
The appointment lands inside a much larger reshuffle Ellison laid out as he closed the Warner Bros. Deal. Ynon Kreiz, formerly of Mattel, steps in as co-CEO alongside Ellison. George Cheeks and Casey Bloys share the co-chair and chief content officer title at Skydance TV, with JB Perrette, who ran global streaming and games at Warner Bros. Discovery, joining them as co-chair and chief business officer across both Skydance TV and Skydance DTC. Greenstein and Goldberg take the top motion picture seats, overseeing Warner Bros. And Paramount together as co-chairs of Skydance Motion Picture Group. James Gunn and Peter Safran stay put running DC Studios.
Warner Bros. And Paramount reps gave Variety no immediate comment when asked about Goldstine's new mandate.
What this means in practical terms is one person now setting marketing strategy and release-date thinking for two of Hollywood's biggest libraries, plus whatever new labels Skydance spins up. For a combined studio still figuring out how its DC slate, its Paramount franchises and its theatrical calendar fit together under one roof, that's not a small job. The next real test comes whenever Goldstine's team has to push a tentpole into theaters, and everyone will be watching whether the marketing machine that once got him fired works any differently the second time around.
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