Executive Shifts
Kelley promoted at Paramount
Paramount has promoted Katie Martin Kelley to SVP of Publicity at the studio. That makes her responsible for the publicity duties at both Paramount Vantage and Paramount Classics. She’ll also continue her duties on the marketing campaigns for those two shingles at the same time. Kelley has a history spanning a number [...]
Paramount promotes Stables
Paramount Pictures has promoted LeeAnne Stables to EVP of Worldwide Marketing Partnerships at the studio. Stables has certainly earned the promotion. She’s the driving force behind signing the slew of promotional partnership deals for Iron Man, as well as other pictures. Considering the financial support those partners give the studio when it comes [...]
Rubenstein joins Marvel as online, mobile head
Former Sony Pictures executive Ira Rubenstein has joined Marvel Entertainment to head that companies forays into online and mobile efforts.
Rubenstein will be tasked with over-seeing Marvel’s growing presence on the Internet and on mobile devices as it looks to those to those two platforms for extensions of its stable of characters. Marvel has been doing [...]
Sony sticks with Blake in marketing slot
Sony Pictures will retain Jeff Blake at chairman of worldwide marketing and distribution through 2012 thanks to a new contract agreement between the two.
Sony apparently wanted to keep Blake, whose current contract was set to expire at year’s end, around in part because of his knowledge and insights into worldwide markets.
The move locks in most [...]
Warner Bros. moves execs around the decks
Newly minted head of Warner Bros.’ worldwide marketing Sue Kroll has brought in two allies from her stint in the studio’s international division. Blair Rich will now serve as EVP of worldwide marketing and Gene Garlock has been installed as SVP of worldwide promotions.
The moves, which are the latest in a series of executive shuffles [...]
CBS Films hires Miller for marketing
Debbie Miller has been hired by CBS Films to fill the role of EVP, worldwide marketing.
CBS Films is still getting its sea legs, launching just a year ago after CBS was split off from Paramount by Viacom. The studio plans on four to six movies per year being released and is currently in development on [...]
Ammer joins Marvel as marketing head
Marvel Studios has brought on Geoffrey Ammer as president of worldwide marketing and home entertainment. That means Ammer will be immediately responsible for the marketing campaigns for Marvel’s two 2008 releases, Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, both of which hit theaters this summer.
So no pressure on getting up to speed quickly Geoffrey.
Thankfully Ammer is [...]
George hired as Overture VP of creative advertising
Overture Films, which seems to be making a lot of noise recently, has hired Jackson George away from the In Sync Advertising agency to be the studio’s VP of creative advertising.
He joins Overture just as they studio is preparing for a number of potentially big releases, including Sleepwalking with Charlize Theron and Righteous Kill with [...]
Executive Shifts: 1/13/08
Warner Bros. has let go of domestic marketing chief Dawn Taubin, who served in that role for six years. The ouster appears to have more to do with personality conflicts with worldwide marketing head Jeff Robinov than anything relating to the performance of WB films. {Update: WB has named Sue Kroll as Taubin’s successor}
A major [...]
Bernard leaves Fox theatrical; Greer promoted at New Line
Laurel Bernard has left her post as SVP of media and national promotion at Fox Searchlight for a position as SVP of marketing for corporate sibling Fox Network. While at Fox Bernard worked on campaigns for X2, Waitress and others. She has been with the Fox theatrical companies, both the main studio and Fox Searchlight, [...]
New Line ups Kounelias in marketing department
New Line has promoted Christine Kounelias to EVP, marketing, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Kounelias has been with New Line for 12 years in a variety of marketing and communications roles, during which time she’s overseen campaigns for the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Wedding Crashers among other films. It also comes after Hairspray wound up [...]
