Jim Orr will take over Carpou’s post, while Peter Levinsohn will take on an expanded role at the studio, which is having a strong year thanks to microbudget hits such as Split and Get Out.
Executive Moves
A place to track all industry staff and executive moves.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Paramount players has made its first executive hires with the additions of Ali Bell and Matt Dines who will serve as EVPs reporting to Brian Robbins.
Upcoming releases from WB and New Line include It (Sept. 8), Ninjago (Sept. 22), Blade Runner 2049 (Oct. 6), Geostorm (Oct. 20), Justice League (Nov. 17) and Bastards (Dec. 22).
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Following Broad Green’s production division shut down and laying off staff, former exec Jeremy Fuchs has joined STX Entertainment.
Young and Hungry star Jonathan Sadowski and The Flash actors Tom Cavanagh and Carlos Valdes are among the clients joining them at their new company.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Sony Pictures TV Studios gets an overhaul as chief Tony Vinciquerra promotes a trio from within to run the TV production division.
The Hammond brothers have made mistakes, but unlike Relativity, those mistakes are only coming back to haunt them, rather than outside investors, since they built Broad Green with their own money and will keep it going as long as their blockbuster bank accounts can sustain the strain.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Carolyn McCall has been named the CEO of ITV, the first female ever named to the role.
Greenspan is known for female-driven projects such as The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Best of Me.
Schilowitz is the chief creative officer at Barco Escape who was also a founding member and an integral part of the product development team at RED Digital Cinema.
In her new role, Soria will be responsible for all operations of the animation group from creative development to release. She’ll also work closely with the Viacom teams to develop animated features.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Nickelodeon made multiple promotions, while Bedonna Smith has assumed the new role of Executive Producer of Activism at Anonymous Content.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. FX and BET have made multiple promotions and Jon Hookstratten joins Sony from Fox.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. CBS promoted several of their daytime executives and Julie Fontaine has left Lionsgate to head up Netflix’s film publicity department.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Paramount promoted Elizabeth Raposo to President of Production while Jennifer Carreras has moved from 20th Century Fox TV to ABC.
Raposo is well-liked throughout the industry and has developed a great reputation at Paramount, for whom she has overseen production on the Mission: Impossible and Star Trek franchises.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Chris Petrikin moves from 20th Century Fox to Paramount while Brian Robbins, founder of AwesomenessTV, is head of the new Paramount Players venture.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. CBS Entertainment received a big shake-up this week, with both president Glenn Geller and EVP of current Bridget Wiley departing the company.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Tricia Melton has been hired as SVP of Marketing at Freeform and Jana Winograde has moved from ABC to Showtime.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Dylan Seller is returning to The Weinstein Company as President of Production and Legendary has lost two executives.
Valenti has been a key creative force behind the Warner Animation Group, shepherding such titles as The LEGO Batman Movie from director Chris McKay, and The LEGO Movie from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Sellers spent three years at TWC, working on such films as John Wells’ August: Osage County and Ted Melfi’s St. Vincent, and he stepped down from his post in September 2014 when his contract expired.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Kristin Burr is departing from her position as EVP of live-action production at Disney to start her own banner on the lot and Joel Stillerman has been hired as the CCO of Hulu.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Anne Cherel has been promoted at Studiocanal and Sonia Coleman, an HR executive, has moved from the Walt Disney Company to ABC.
Since January 2010, McCormick has operated Langley Park Productions, which produced Gangster Squad, The Lucky One and the Arthur remake. McCormick is also a producer on the Amazon Studios thriller Lost Girls starring Sarah Paulson.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Miramax has a new CEO, Open Road has a new President of Marketing, and Rory Bruer, the head of worldwide distribution at Sony, is retiring.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Micah Green, a high-level exec at CAA is leaving the agency to start his own venture with Dan Friedkin, while Susan Levison has left VH1 for CBS.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Laurel Weir moves from MTV to Paramount Network and CNBC Digital has made several editorial hires.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. Both Hulu’s head of marketing and Sony Television’s head of communications are departing the companies.
Keep up with what’s happening in the industry with the inside information on who’s getting hired, promoted, and let go. BET is losing two of its executives and Annapurna hires Adrienne Becker as COO.
