Paramount Fires Senior Vice President of Business Affairs

Paramount Pictures said late Wednesday that Leon F. Brachman, senior vice president of business affairs in its Motion Picture Group, had been terminated for “violation of company policy.”

A Paramount spokesman would not elaborate.

Brachman had been hired by Paramount last June from 20th Century Fox, where he had been executive vice president of business affairs.

Brachman, in a statement, said: “I’m sorry that Paramount decided to take the action that it did, which I think is very ill advised. Everything else is private.”

He declined further comment.