EXCLUSIVE: Richard Brener, New Line Cinema’s president and CCO and the genre label’s longest-serving employee, is expected to make the jump to the new Paramount-Warner Bros studio, Skydance, sources have informed us. We hear that Brener will continue to steer New Line.

As made known Friday morning, Paramount Production Co-Chairs Dana Golberg and Josh Greenstein will have all Warner Bros labels report into them. The merger is expected to close early next week.

Brener has been a lynchpin for the biggest horror movies ever including The Conjuring franchise; the feature take of Stephen King’s It movies; the Final Destination franchise and its recent revival; as well as Zach Cregger’s blockbuster Weapons among several others.

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Incoming to the new Paramount will be New Line’s next movie with Cregger, the original sci-fi title The Flood (release date: August 11, 2028) as well as the Weapons prequel Gladys (Sept. 8, 2028) among others. Oh, and let’s not forget the Andy Serkis-directed The Hunt for Gollum (December 17, 2027), the next Lord of the Rings movie in that mega-billion-dollar-grossing franchise. Brener is also coming into the Melrose lot with Evil Dead Wrath (August 7, 2028) and Final Destination 7 (May 12, 2028).

Brener was first hired by New Line production boss Michael De Luca in 1995, starting as a temp and rising through the New Line corporate ladder to story editor then SVP. He was also SVP-COO at one point in the mid-2000s. He’s known for managing talent and filmmaker relationships eloquently. When comedies were the rage at the theatrical box office, Brener was also a key in shepherding such fare, e.g., The Wedding Singer, Wedding Crashers, the Sex and the City movies and the Austin Powers franchise (the list goes on).

Last year Brener saw the highest-grossing movie in the The Conjuring series, Last Rites, posting close to a half-billion at the global box office. Final Destination Bloodlines posted the biggest ever box office for that franchise with $317.8M, directed by young filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein.