Rice Spotted Dining with New Paramount Co-CEO Amid Merger Chaos

The merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. has sent shockwaves through Hollywood, with several executives jockeying for positions in the newly formed company.

Former Disney TV chairman Peter Rice was spotted having a three-hour dinner with Ynon Kreiz, the new co-CEO of the merged studios, at Marea in Beverly Hills last month.

The conversation between Rice and Kreiz was described as 'private,' 'intense,' and 'not casual' by an insider.

Rice is now being courted to join David Ellison's combined studios, with speculation that he could take a role above or parallel to current Paramount Pictures co-chairs Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg.