{"id":2315600,"date":"2026-03-06T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2315600"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:16:07","slug":"why-is-paramount-hiring-so-many-men-with-troubled-pasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-is-paramount-hiring-so-many-men-with-troubled-pasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Paramount Hiring So Many Men With Troubled Pasts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Ellison<\/a> and Paramount Pictures<\/a> have a message for Hollywood\u2019s canceled #MeToo men: We\u2019re hiring.<\/p>\n

Barely six months after merging with Skydance, Paramount<\/a> counts in its ranks screenwriter Max Landis<\/a>, actor Johnny Depp<\/a>, animation chief John Lasseter<\/a>, director Brett Ratner<\/a> and former NBCUniversal<\/a> CEO Jeff Shell<\/a>, who has served as president since the Skydance takeover. All five men faced accusations of sexual misconduct before they were hired, some more serious than others, with Lasseter and Shell losing senior positions at Hollywood studios over their allegations.<\/p>\n

After being accused of physical assault, Depp fought ex-wife Amber Heard<\/a> in a defamation case and won. Ratner faced serious allegations of sexual assault,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Ellison and Paramount Pictures have a message for Hollywood\u2019s canceled #MeToo men: We\u2019re hiring. Barely six months after merging with Skydance, Paramount counts in its ranks screenwriter Max Landis, actor Johnny Depp, animation chief John Lasseter, director Brett Ratner and former NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, who has served as president since the Skydance takeover. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2315601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2315600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Why-Is-Paramount-Hiring-So-Many-Men-With-Troubled-Pasts.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315602,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315600\/revisions\/2315602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}