Paramount Global Co-Chief Executive Brian Robbins stepped down Wednesday, a day before David Ellison’s Skydance Media absorbs the entertainment company.

The move was expected. Skydance unveiled it senior management team earlier this week, signaling its plans to shake up the leadership of Robbins’ turf — the famed Paramount Pictures on Melrose Avenue.

Robbins has led the movie studio since 2021.

Longtime Ellison lieutenant Dana Goldberg and former Sony executive Josh Greenstein will jointly manage the studio as co-chairs. Don Granger, another Skydance executive, becomes motion pictures president, reporting to Goldberg and Greenstein.

Skydance’s $8.4-billion takeover of Paramount is scheduled to be finalized on Thursday.

Robbins is a longtime producer and former child actor who joined

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