Joe Earley has been named President, Direct-to-Client, Disney Leisure, efficient instantly, it was introduced at present by Co-Chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden. Earley, who most lately served as president of Hulu, will lead Disney Leisure’s streaming efforts together with Disney+ and Hulu, reporting to Bergman and Walden. Earley succeeds Michael Paull, who’s leaving the corporate after six years.
Earley joined Disney in January 2019 to supervise Disney+ advertising and operations within the leadup to its vastly profitable November launch that 12 months, including accountability for content material curation in 2021 because the service expanded to dozens of markets worldwide. He was named President of Hulu in January 2022. In his new function, he’ll work carefully with content material groups across the firm to proceed to increase the corporate’s streaming efforts, and drive impactful and resonant programming and engagement choices. As well as, he’ll proceed main Hulu till a successor is recognized.
“Serving to launch Disney+ was a once-in-a-lifetime expertise, and Hulu has been inspiring and rewarding,” mentioned Earley. “I’m extremely grateful to Dana and Alan for his or her confidence and the chance to guide each of those unimaginable groups throughout this time of transformation throughout the streaming panorama.”
Earley beforehand served as President of The Jackal Group, main its tv, movie, business theater and digital divisions, together with productions starting from Tidying Up with Marie Kondo to the MGM animated characteristic movie The Addams Household. He served as a Fox government for over twenty years, becoming a member of in 1994 as a senior publicist and rising via the ranks at Fox Broadcasting to turn into President of Advertising & Communications after which COO of Fox Tv Group. Earley started his leisure profession in manufacturing and growth with producer Gale Anne Hurd and spent a number of years in Media Relations at HBO earlier than shifting to Fox.
A member of the Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences and the Producers Guild of America, Earley holds a B.A. in mass communications from UCLA.
Rising animation and video games outfit Saffronic has begun its international growth with the rent of Los Angeles-based Kristy Scanlan as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Growth. Scanlan brings her huge expertise in each animation and video games to Saffronic, having beforehand held senior enterprise growth roles at Mainframe Studios and Technicolor.
“I’m thrilled to be reuniting with a lot of my previous colleagues from Technicolor, after undertaking a lot throughout our decade of collaboration, to embark on this new journey with Saffronic,” Scanlan shared.
At Technicolor, Scanlan oversaw the enterprise growth for episodic animation and video video games, rising the worldwide video games workforce to just about 500 artists, and dealing with shoppers similar to DreamWorks Animation, Nickelodeon, Disney TV Animation, Digital Arts, Activision, Ubisoft, 2K and Warner Bros. Video games. Previous to her enterprise growth roles, she spent 15+ years working within the growth and manufacturing of live-action motion pictures, longform animated content material and location-based leisure for manufacturers like LEGO.
Scanlan is a former Co-President of Girls in Animation, in addition to a member of the Producers Guild of America and ASIFA Hollywood.
Studio 100 Media lately introduced the appointment of Manuela Lumb and Richard Rowe as Govt Producers. This comes at a time when the corporate is actively including new content material to its portfolio. Each shall be charged with scouting and growing new tasks and IPs for youths’ collection along with figuring out companions for co-development and co-production. Constructing on the corporate’s European slate, Lumb will concentrate on German-speaking nations whereas Rowe will consider English-speaking territories.
Manuela Lumb’s in depth profession in commissioning and producing multi-genre high-class content material consists of growing and producing Germany’s most profitable preschool model “KiKAninchen” for KiKA and “Löwenzähnchen” for ZDF, in addition to growing live-action collection for Nickelodeon. For a few years, she was a commissioning editor at SWR and WDR (a part of public broadcaster ARD) liable for the well-known Present with the Mouse collection. Beforehand, she was Head of the Kids’s Division at Studio TV.Movie GmbH and Head of Growth at Motionworks GmbH, growing animated collection similar to The Adventures of Younger Marco Polo and hybrid characteristic movie Coppelia (with Submarine).
Lumb will proceed her longstanding work for Cartoon Media as host, chairperson and coach on the pitching and co-production occasions Cartoon Discussion board, Cartoon Film and Cartoon Springboard.
With a profession spanning greater than 20 years, Richard Rowe has amassed spectacular expertise in figuring out, commissioning, growing, and producing internationally profitable live-action and animated content material similar to Inspector Gadget (WarnerMedia & WildBrain), Dorg Van Dango (Nickelodeon Worldwide, Cartoon Saloon & WildBrain) and The Zoo (BBC & WildBrain).
Rowe labored for a few years for the Canadian unbiased leisure firm WildBrain/DHX Media as Director of Worldwide Co-Productions & Acquisitions on a wide range of youngsters’s tasks. Earlier than that, he was a part of the Turner Broadcasting-Crew as Director of Acquisitions & Unique Sequence, overseeing acquisitions and unique collection for EMEA children’ channels.
Impartial inventive studio The Embassy has welcomed Steve Woo as Head of Studio. The established producer comes on board at a key time of growth for the studio, with prime tier promoting work for the likes of Academy Award winner Robert Stromberg and upcoming VFX on the Paramount/Disney+ collection The SpiderWick Chronicles. In his new function, Woo shall be facilitating The Embassy’s progress into Europe, with outposts in Spain and Nordic Europe coming quickly.
Woo started his profession producing and directing options, TV and commercials, whereas all the time holding VFX as a ardour. In 2004, he began a VFX studio in Taiwan, and was later employed as Head of Studio in China by Digital Area, serving to to handle their international studios. Ultimately, he moved to Digital Area’s Vancouver studio, and extra lately to Netflix-owned Scanline VFX.
Framestore’s London Promoting introduced the appointment of VFX Supervisor William Laban. With over 10 years’ trade expertise, the function marks a welcome return for Laban, who kick began his VFX profession as a runner at Framestore, earlier than working his approach as much as Technical Director, Commercials. In 2016 he joined MPC the place he rose to VFX Supervisor, a job he later transferred over to The Mill.
With a number of notable tasks below his belt, Laban’s inventive highlights embody Burberry “Open Areas” and “Night time Creatures” directed by Megaforce, Hennessy X.O “The Seven Worlds” directed by Sir Ridley Scott, John Lewis “Buster the Boxer” directed by Dougal Wilson, and BT “Broadband Nightmares” directed by The Sacred Egg.
Laban has received quite a few awards, together with two VES Awards, two Gold British Arrows and a Gold Cannes Lions.
