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Executive Moves
A place to track all industry staff and executive moves.
A weekly recap of all of the Executive Comings and goings.
A recap of all of the Executive Comings and goings for the last month.
A recap of all of the Executive Comings and goings!
A recap of all of the Executive Comings and goings!
Yari ups a new VP, with an emphasis on developing new scripted series’.
Cindy Ambers, formerly the principal owner of Verve Entertainment, has partnered with Lit. Manager Julie Bloom, in a non-hostile take over of Art/Work Entertainment…
The genre arm of TWC expands.
Singh, Fung, Albrycht and DeLima
Leif Reinstein is joining FremantleMedia as a VP in a newly created position that will have him responsible for the business and legal affairs of scripted programming.
Rosalie Swedlin has left Industry Entertainment to join Anonymous Content as a manager and producer.
Dana Lambert, former VP Acquisitions of After Dark Films/Autonomous Films has exited the company.
Bill Butler, formerly of GERSH (NY) has signed on to become a new partner at Management Co. Industry Entertainment. While the list is not finalized yet, he will bring several of his clients with him.
Chris Burbidge has been tapped as a new talent manager at fast-growing Roar Management.
Congrats Chris!
Sara Scott has joined the staff at Universal, as their new CE. She was previously at Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films.
Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form, have moved their production company, Platinum Dunes, from CAA to WME. They were at WME before moving to CAA a year ago, but returned due to the increase in project budgets with their first look deal at Paramount Pictures.
Platinum Dunes, who have the reboot/remake fever, are currently rebooting TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, adapting OUIJA, and have done very well for themselves with previous reboot/remakes A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, FRIDAY THE 13TH, THE HITCHER, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, and two new installments in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE franchise.
Platinum’s biggest budgets to date have been in the $30 million range, and every film they’ve done has made it’s money back, two of them doing so opening night!
Stephen Gilchrist has exited Lin Pictures as DoD (director of development).
Previous Blockbuster Exec VP Bill Lee has signed on to become the new CEO of First Look Studios.
Rachel Abarbanell has been promoted to VP at Obst/Rosen.
David Gambino is now the Senior VP at Silver Pictures.
Alex Heinemann in as a VP at Silver. Alex is a former VP at Rogue and left with Andrew Rona.
Underground manager/producer Will Lowery is now at Generate.
Warner Bros.’ Kevin McCormick moving into a producing deal… New Co-Presidents will be Lynn Harris & Greg Silverman.
Rick and Julie Yorn has signed a new deal at Fox. So have former New Line exec turned SEMI-PRO director Kent Alterman & Michael Aguilar who had a previous deal at Fox.
Universal’s President of Production, Donna Langley, has been promoted to Vice-Chairman. Dylan Clark moving up to President.
We can confirm that TWILIGHT producer Greg Mooradian is in at Paramount as their new SVP.
WEDDING CRASHERS producer Andrew Panay will be exiting Tapestry Films to start his own company with a deal at Disney. He is currently producing OLD DOGS for the studio.
Jon Cohen is set to leave Davis Entertainment to take a new position at Donner’s Company.
New Paramount Creative Executive is Annie Laks who was previously at Sony.
Alex Garcia exited Bryan Singer’s Bad Hat Harry to take an exec position at Legendary Pictures.
Hearing that Senior VP of Silver Pictures, Erik Olsen, has exited the company and is now at the Yorn’s new company.
John Ridley has been promoted to Creative Exec at Warner Bros.
