Bob Bakish Got Played Off to the Mission: Impossible Theme Song

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Bob Bakish stepped down from his relation arsenic the CEO of Paramount Global connected Monday, April 29, to… the Mission: Impossible taxable song? Yeah, beauteous much. During a 9-minute agelong net telephone wherever Paramount formally announced Bakish’s departure from the company, they allegedly refused questions and past “played the Mission: Impossible song connected a loop,” reports Anna Nicolaou of Financial Times. This alteration successful enactment was teased connected Saturday amid hostility with National Amusements’s Shari Redstone, who owns Paramount Global and is reportedly unhappy with Bakish’s leadership. He has been with the institution since 1997 and became Viacom’s CEO successful 2016, maintaining his relation done the Viacom CBS merger of 2019.

Bakish volition beryllium replaced by 3 executives: George Cheeks, the CEO of CBS; Chris McCarthy, the CEO of Showtime, MTV Entertainment Studios, and Paramount Media Networks; and Brian Robbins, the CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon.

Paramount has reportedly been trying to find idiosyncratic to bargain the institution for quite a portion now, which begs the astir important question of all: Will they inactive get custody of Tom Cruise aft the divorce? Fear not, since according to CNBC, Skydance Media, who produced Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, has sent implicit a “best and final” connection to bargain each oregon portion of Paramount. Chop chop, movie execs. Top Gun 3 is connected the line.