Some movie studio news... This week, Paramount Pictures announced the appointment of Peter Kang as Executive Vice President of Production: Former Fox Exec Peter Kang Joins Paramount.Kang recently left 20th Century Fox, where he oversaw films like Rise of the Planet of the Apes and ran the studio's New York-based book division, handling the acquisitions of rights to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children:
Kang joins Paramount from Twentieth Century Fox, where he served as Executive Vice President of Production. Recently, he oversaw the critically acclaimedMore here: TOLDJA: Paramount Names Peter Kang EVP, Production.
"RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES," which he developed from inception with producers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, and was instrumental in bringing aboard director Rupert Wyatt and the film’s star Andy Serkis. Prior to his departure, he shepherded the film's sequel into production with Chernin Entertainment again producing.
In charge of New York book operations for Fox's main divison, Kang obtained for the studio the rights to such New York Times bestselling books as Gillian Flynn's wildly popular Gone Girl, which Reese Witherspoon will produce, as well as James Dashner's The Maze Runner and Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, among others.
