It's not clear what title Greenstein will hold once David Ellison's $8 billion deal to buy Paramount Global officially closes.

Under the two-step deal, Skydance is set to acquire controlling shareholder Shari Redstone’s holding company National Amusements, which controls 77.4% of the Paramount Class A common stock outstanding and approximately 9.5% of the overall equity of the company, before merging with the Hollywood studio.

On today's 'Daily Variety' podcast, Brent Lang unpacks the film management shuffle at Sony Pictures as Josh Greenstein heads to Paramount.