As it gears up for a busy year of tentpole releases, Warner Bros.‘ film division has hired an Amazon MGM Studios executive as its chief business officer.Ted Lim, who most recently served as head of global strategy and business development at MGM, will join Warner Bros. in a newly created role this week, Motion Picture Group co-chiefs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy wrote in a memo to staff on Tuesday.Lim joined MGM in 2018 from Participant Media, where he served as senior vp strategy and business development, working on investments and acquisitions. Earlier in his career, the exec was part of the corporate strategy and business development team for Disney.“During his time at Amazon, Ted helped architect the company’s go-forward film strategy – in particular, he oversaw the strategic expansion of the theatrical slate with upcoming titles such as The Accountant 2, Project Hail Mary, Masters of the Universe and The Thomas Crown Affair, while executing distribution strategies for recent titles including Creed III, Challengers, The Beekeeper, and American Fiction,” De Luca and Abdy wrote. “He was also a key proponent of facilitating global theatrical windows for Red One and Air and managed the company’s international theatrical distribution partnership with Warner Bros.”At Prime Video, the Chris Evans-Dwayne Johnson holiday movie Red One became one of the most-streamed movies of the year, per Nielsen’s 2024 tally, even in a short window of time after its theatrical release on November 15th. Warners handled international distribution rights for the action feature.Up ahead for Warner Bros. theatrically is sci-fi thriller Companion (January 31st) and Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 (March 7th) before tentpoles like Brad Pitt-starrer F1 (June 27th) and the next reboot of Superman (July 11th) unspool.
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