In the days before the Paramount -Skydance merger closed, headlines as to who was staying and who was going were flying fast and furious. One person who appeared to be held in high esteem by Skydance chief David Ellison was Ramsey Naito, head of Paramount Animation.

It would have been understandable if Ellison opted to show Naito the door as he did with other top execs, considering she was closely aligned with former Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins (she had helped bring the successful Nickelodeon series PAW Patrol to the big screen). On Aug. 6, the night before the merger became official, an anonymously sourced news story indicated that Naito was safe, highlighting the success of 2023’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem , which grossed $182 million worldwide against

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