Brian Robbins is Co-CEO of Paramount Global, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon. As President & CEO of Paramount Pictures, Robbins oversees the filmed entertainment division’s creative strategy and worldwide business operations including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing Inc., and Paramount Studio Group. In this role, he is focused on driving Paramount’s multi-platform strategy and theatrical success through a diversified portfolio of films. Robbins is also at the forefront of securing strategic filmmaker partnerships to expand the studio’s global franchise business across live-action features, animation, consumer products and themed entertainment.
Under Robbins’ tenure, Paramount Pictures has boasted seventeen #1 hits including Top Gun: Maverick, the studio’s biggest film ever.
In 2025 alone, Robbins has shepherded the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise to over $1.2B in worldwide box office gross, with the most recent installment, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 earning a franchise-best global gross, in addition to a Certified Fresh 85% Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score, and a phenomenal 95% Popcornmeter score; and oversaw a franchise-best global opening for Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning.
Since taking the helm of the studio in 2021, Robbins has overseen, expanded, and reinvigorated beloved franchises like Transformers, Sonic the Hedgehog, A Quiet Place, Mission Impossible, Scream, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and PAW Patrol, with the latter two achieving over $2.5B in consumer products revenue at retail in 2023 alone.
As President & CEO of Nickelodeon, Robbins has global oversight of all creative, strategic, and business operations for Paramount Global’s kids and young-adult focused brands, where he has overseen the continued growth of SpongeBob SquarePants into a full multiplatform franchise spanning television, theatricals and consumer products; the similar strategic expansion of PAW Patrol; plus a wealth of original series and specials across animation, live action and digital drawing from Nickelodeon’s storied history of premier and groundbreaking kids’ content.
As Chief Content Officer, Movies & Kids & Family, Paramount+, Robbins is responsible for growing the service’s global portfolio of live-action and animated kids and family programming, both episodic and film. These include PAW Patrol, SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Good Burger 2, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines and Monster High, Robbins also greenlit and oversaw the release of the “Knuckles” series, set in the Sonic the Hedgehog cinematic universe, which in the first 28 days of its release on Paramount+ days garnered over 11M Total Global Hours and is the # 1 K&F Paramount+ series ever in terms of hours.
Robbins first joined the organization in 2017 as the first President of Paramount Players, after which he became President of Nickelodeon in 2018, and then President, Kids & Family Entertainment, for ViacomCBS (now Paramount). Prior to establishing Paramount Players, Robbins was the Founder & CEO of the multiplatform media company Awesomeness, which developed such unprecedented influence among Gen Z viewers that it was acquired, first, by DreamWorks Animation in 2013, and then by Viacom, in 2018.
Robbins began his career as a prolific producer of television, film, and digital media, and is best known for executive producing popular and critical television hits aimed at teens and young audiences, including the long-running CW series Smallville and One Tree Hill; Nickelodeon’s “All That” and “Kenan and Kel”; Disney Channel’s “So Random”; and Spike TV’s “Blue Mountain State”. He also produced the popular WB series “What I Like About You” and HBO’s “Arli$$”. In the feature film world, his directing and producing credits include Varsity Blues, Hardball and Coach Carter, among many others.
Robbins is a board member of the Motion Picture Association; a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; sits on the board of trustees for the AFI and is the recipient of a Directors Guild Award, a Peabody Award, and the Pioneer Prize from the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.