Motion Picture marketing czar Josh Goldstine is in final talks to come in as the new Global Head of Marketing and Distribution under Paramount ‘s new Motion Picture co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, sources say. The new David Ellison run Paramount hasn’t made the news official quite yet. We had heard rumors that Goldstine had met with Ellison as far back as Oscar weekend, soon after exiting Warner Bros ., but contracts couldn’t be exchanged as it was all pre-merger.

Though Greenstein has marketing in his title, since arriving at Paramount, it’s been known that the former Sony exec wants to roll up his sleeves in development. What’s new for Goldstine on the Melrose lot is that he’ll add distribution under his domain. Marc Weinstock has led Global Marketing and Distribution

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