EXCLUSIVE: Heading into subsequent week’s AFM, U.S. gross sales agency The Exchange has made a number of hires and promotions.
Daniel Gusman has been promoted from VP of Marketing and Distribution to Head of Acquisitions and Marketing whereas the corporate has employed Matt Hechinger as Acquisition & Development Director and Yue Wang as Director, Worldwide Sales & Distribution Director with Danyelle Foord aboard as Consultant on Production & Development.
The employees adjustments observe the departure of Head Of Production and Acquisitions, Caddy Pantida Vanasirikul, who left earlier this yr to affix Plan B.
Gusman was one of many first workers at The Exchange. In his function as VP of selling and distribution, he has a hand within the promotion, acquisition, and launch technique of most movies on firm’s slate. He additionally negotiated the acquisition of the Pete Davidson comedy Big Time Adolescence with Hulu and Exchange’s first collection, Tales from the Void.
Hechinger was most lately Director of Acquisitions at IFC Films, the place he was concerned in buying and distributing greater than 70 movies, together with The Death of Stalin and The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Prior to that, he served as an govt on quite a few movies and tv initiatives whereas at TWC, together with Snowpiercer and Carol.
Wang began her profession in movie as an unbiased producer. After three years of engaged on bodily manufacturing, she joined Miramax specializing in worldwide gross sales. She bought David Ayer/Jason Statham motion movie The Beekeeper, Robert Zemeckis/Tom Hanks undertaking Here, style movies reminiscent of Confess, Fletch starring John Hamm, and Mother/Android starring Chloe Grace Moretz.
Foord started her profession working for AaronKaplan at Kapital Entertainment, the place she helped develop quite a few TV reveals, together with Life in Pieces (CBS), Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix), The Chi (Showtime), and Divorce (HBO). She then went on to work at Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, the place she labored on movies reminiscent of Lowriders, which opened the 2016 LA Film Festival, and American Made, which was directed by Doug Liman and starred Tom Cruise. In 2017, Danyelle helped set up Big Cat Productions, an unbiased manufacturing firm, with founder Alexandre Dauman.
“It gives me great pleasure to recognize Danny’s successes through the years by elevating him to this position. And I’m very proud to have such a strong team surrounding me at The Exchange with our new additions,” mentioned Brian O’Shea, CEO of The Exchange.
The Exchange’s AFM slate contains The Cut with Orlando Bloom and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lucy Liu’s Nobody Nothing Nowhere.
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