Brian Robbins has made official his departure from the Melrose Lot as co-CEO of Paramount Global and President and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon.Robbins joined Paramount in 2017. He became President and CEO of Nickelodeon in October 2018, then was raised to President and CEO of Paramount Pictures in September of 2021 and co-CEO of Paramount Global in April 2024. In the latter role, he was part of a team that launched and scaled Paramount+.During his tenure at Paramount Pictures, Robbins saw 17 No. 1 releases at the box office, and this was coming off Covid when moviegoing was trying to regain its footing. In 2022 alone, he oversaw six No. 1 pics, which was one of the most successful years in the studio’s history including Top Gun: Maverick which at close to $1.5 billion became the studio’s most successful movie ever worldwide, as well as star Tom Cruise’s. It was rumored at the time Robbins took over for Jim Gianopulos that he’d squash theatrical in favor of streaming, but that didn’t happen. The former child actor and AwesomenessTV founder pivoted horror movie Smile from a P+ release to big screen, launching a new horror franchise for the studio. Mean Girls was another P+ movie change-up from streaming to theatrical, that movie providing a lifeblood to the B.O. during early 2024. He continued to expand Paramount’s notable franchises including Sonic the Hedgehog, A Quiet Place, Mission: Impossible, Scream, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and PAW Patrol, with the latter two achieving over $2.5B in consumer products revenue at retail in 2023 alone.The Robbins’ reign made productions deals with a string of top filmmakers and talent, including A Quiet Place‘s John Krasinski and Allyson Seeger and their production company, Sunday Night; Ryan Reynolds’s Maximum Effort; Sonic the Hedgehog’s Neal Moritz; Transformers’ Lorenzo di Bonaventura; Smile director Parker Finn; The Conjuring franchise’s Walter Hamada who is building a genre label at the studio, 18hz; Academy Award-winning director Damien Chazelle; writer and co-director of the Academy Award-nominated The Mitchells vs. the Machines and the director of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Jeff Rowe.There’s a lot on the feature side that the Robbins’ administration is leaving behind including Miramax’s upcoming Roofman with Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst; Regretting You, The Running Man reboot with Glen Powell and directed by Edgar Wright, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants this December.For 2026 and beyond, he’s put in the pipeline the animated The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender; a live-action comedy from South Park‘s Matt Stone and Trey Parker, along with Grammy award-winning musician Kendrick Lamar; original films including the next directorial feature from Damien Chazelle and Heart of the Beast starring Brad Pitt, with Chazelle producing with David Ayer directing; PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, the third installment of the popular kids & family franchise; A Quiet Place Part III, with John Krasinski writing, directing and producing; The Angry Birds 3 movie, which the studio is distributing theatrically; a sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem; a new installment of Scary Movie with the Wayans Brothers returning; and in development, event films like an all-new Star Trek origin story with Seth Grahame-Smith writing, Toby Haynes directing, and Simon Kinberg producing, as well as a biopic of Evel Knievel starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Damien Chazelle.Currently in post there’s Children of Blood & Bone, the adaptation of the best-selling young adult fantasy series, featuring Idris Elba, Regina King, Cynthia Erivo Viola Davis, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, among others; a seventh installment of Scream, with legacy cast including Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox returning alongside new cast members; and horror movies Primate and Untitled André Øvredal/Walter Hamada Film.In prep there’s K-Pop, a partnership with Hybe America and starring Ji-young Yoo and Eric Nam; and the Ferris Bueller spin-off Sam & Victor’s Day Off.Upcoming for Robbins is the third season of School Spirits on P+, which will bring YA viewers back to the mysteries and characters of Split River High. Series is produced AwesomenessTV and stars Peyton List.At Nickelodeon, Robbins steered SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora Explorer through their 25th anniversaries. After 20 years, SpongeBog remains the No. 1 animated kids’ show after two decades. He further expanded the universe across platforms with franchise hits like “The Patrick Star Show” and “Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years” on Paramount+, and Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (debuting as Netflix’s most-watched title of the week) and Plankton: The Movie on Netflix.Robbins also evolved Nickelodeon’s relationship with professional sports, bringing for the first time ever an AR-driven NFL Wild Card game, which led to the first-ever NFL Super Bowl alternate telecast on Nickelodeon, hosted by SpongeBob and Patrick in a landmark creative first.
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