Paramount Motion Picture Group President Mike Ireland is exiting the studio amid the pending closure of the Paramount-Skydance deal.

Ireland and Cercek would go on to lead Paramount in 2022 to its best year at the box office since 2014, with nearly $1.3 billion in domestic grosses. That bonanza was led by the studio’s second-highest grossing film of all time, “Top Gun: Maverick,” a Skydance co-production on which Don Granger served as executive producer.

EXCLUSIVE: With the Skydance merger expected to close on Aug. 7, the exec shuffle continues at Paramount Studios as sources tell Deadline that Motion Picture Group Chief Mike Ireland is exiting the studio.