Brian Robbins
American film producer and former CEO of Paramount PicturesWikipedia
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Oct 15, 2026
Dan JohnsonHOST
Was horror your thing? Because I think your first job after that's Chud 2, which, by the way, I also watched.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Chud 2, starring Brian Robbins from Head of the Class, Garrett Graham of Police Academy 6, Robert Vaughn, Bianca Jagger, Larry Linville of Match, and many other popular stars.
Dan JohnsonHOST
God bless Chud 2.
Dan JohnsonHOST
You got Garrett Graham, Robert Vaughn in a fantastic performance.
John CenaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was just a thing of, like, I felt bad that I couldn't make the business model a success.
John CenaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then Bryan Robbins was like, "Hey, I'm filming this movie with this YouTube kid.
John CenaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You wanna parody yourself?" And I'm like, "Yo, what?"
JoelPANELIST
[laughs]
Josh HorowitzHOST
Yep.
John CenaGUEST
"We'll, let's start moving forward." And then Brian Robbins was like, "Hey, I'm filming this movie with this YouTube kid."
Josh HorowitzHOST
Right.
John CenaGUEST
"Um, do you wanna parody yourself?" And I'm like, "Yo, what?"
John RossHOST
'Cause they've constantly been up for sale.
John RossHOST
So their biggest thing in the last eight years is Top Gun, and that was greenlit under one studio executive, released under Brian Robbins.
John RossHOST
So I just feel like it's tough because we just don't know the Paramount identity other than that they're more commercial and a little bit more bro-y.
John RossHOST
[laughs] It's the only way to describe it.
Jesse HassengerHOST
I don't know.
Jesse HassengerHOST
What? [chuckles] Good br- yeah, Brian Robbins.
Jesse HassengerHOST
Yeah.
Brett ArnoldHOST
Brian Robbins.
Jesse HassengerHOST
He's gonna come back to the director's chair finally.
Jesse HassengerHOST
Um, yeah.
David MumpowerHOST
So what we have here are DeLuca and Abdi on the outside looking in.
David MumpowerHOST
And as a reminder, they actually wanted to start their own studio with Brian Robbins.
David MumpowerHOST
Why is that name familiar to you? Well, he was Paramount Pictures' CEO during the change from Paramount to Skydance.
David MumpowerHOST
And Robbins went out and started his own thing.
David MumpowerHOST
They tried to join him and, oh, their contracts blocked them from doing that.
David MumpowerHOST
So Paramount strung them along just long enough to implode their careers and prevent them from starting a new studio with Brian Robbins.
David MumpowerHOST
The presumption is they'll probably try and do it again on their own.
Tim BrideyHOST
Does this mean not only the Warner Brothers name, does this mean the Paramount name is also dead and everything they release going forward will be under the Skydance name?
PatHOST
And
Scott MendelsonHOST
most of those films were greenlit, not even by Ellison, but the guy before Brian Robbins.
Scott MendelsonHOST
Right.
Scott MendelsonHOST
Right.
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Scott MendelsonHOST
Obviously, Top Gun Maverick made a few bucks, if I recall.
Scott MendelsonHOST
Smile, not only does that do well, that basically opens the floodgates for the notion of, hey, maybe this promising streaming movie should be in theaters instead.
Scott MendelsonHOST
And then I give Brian Robbins credit for it, by the way.
Scott MendelsonHOST
And then, so when Babylon comes out at the end of 2022 and makes like, Again, going off memory, I apologize.
AlilHOST
So-
SeanHOST
This is Brian Robbins, [laughs] former CEO of Paramount Pictures.
SeanHOST
[laughs] Crazy work.
SeanHOST
Uh-
KatieHOST
Um-
AlanHOST
The actor Brian Robbins.
KatieHOST
Brian Robbins.
KatieHOST
Okay.
KatieHOST
Uh-