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Para­mount Pic­tures announced Mon­day that it has appointed vet­eran ani­ma­tion exec­u­tive David Stain­ton as pres­i­dent of its new in-house ani­ma­tion division.

Stain­ton joins Para­mount after a 17-year run at Dis­ney, where he served as Pres­i­dent of Walt Dis­ney Fea­ture Ani­ma­tion. Dur­ing his stu­dio tenure, he over­saw sev­eral dozen releases across var­i­ous plat­forms that brought in $3.5 bil­lion in world­wide rev­enue. He spear­headed Disney’s tran­si­tion from its hand-drawn roots to fully dig­i­tal ani­ma­tion pro­duc­tion, led the suc­cess­ful Dis­ney Video Pre­mieres divi­sion, and over­saw the studio’s 150-person ani­ma­tion facil­ity in Paris. More recently, Stain­ton served as CEO of fam­ily enter­tain­ment pro­ducer Henry’s World Media, which he founded in 2007.

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