The executive, who also heads up Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon, was widely expected to depart once Skydance's David Ellison realized his goal of owning a legacy Hollywood studio.

It could be a close race for first place at the box office as "Freakier Friday" and "Weapons" target similar debuts.

Twenty-one years after the original film, 'The Passion of the Christ' is getting an official sequel from controversial ...