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Vicky Eguia Dies: Amazon Studios PR Executive Was 48
Veteran PR executive Vicky Eguia, who worked on several award winning movie campaigns such as Pan's Labyrinth, La Vie en Rose and Amazon Studios’ Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 48.
Her family revealed the news in a Facebook post early Saturday.
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Bob & Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse Release ‘Fatima’ To Rise In Theaters This Summer
EXCLUSIVE: Marco Pontecorvo’s Fatima, the first title to be released by Bob and Jeanne Berney’s revived Picturehouse, is going wide in 1,000 runs on Aug. 14, Deadline has learned.
The faith-based movie about the Virgin Mary’s appearance to a 10-year old shepherd and her two cousins in Fátima, Portugal, was acquired…
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Bob & Jeanne Berney Reopen Picturehouse With North American Rights Deal For ‘Fatima’
In his first major move since exiting Amazon Studios, distribution executive Bob Berney has teamed with wife Jeanne Berney to reopen Picturehouse, the label he once headed. They have acquired North American distribution rights to Fatima, a feature film starring Stephanie Gil (Terminator: Dark Fate), Lúcia Moniz (Love…
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Bob Berney Exiting As Amazon Studios Head Of Marketing/Distribution
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran indie distribution executive Bob Berney is leaving Amazon Studios, sources said. It was his decision and came at the end of his four-year contract, which just ended last week.
Berney was hired in mid-2015 to oversee distribution and marketing for Amazon’s original films. Much has happened at the…
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Jennifer Salke On Amazon’s Film Future, Sundance Deals & The Late Night Selfie That Won Her ‘Brittany Runs A Marathon’
In an unprecedented Sundance Film Festival deal haul for a single distributor, Amazon Studios gave the clearest indication of its movie future by paying a record near $50 million for five films. The acquisition avalanche began with the fest’s first big pact for Late Night (record $13M for U.S. rights). Within a matter…
Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’ Will Now March Into The Spring – Update
UPDATE, Oct. 2: Amazon Studios is now moving Mike Leigh’s Peterloo out of the fall frame after the British historical epic played the fall film festival triad of Venice, Telluride and TIFF. The new date is April 5 next year. Variety‘s Guy Lodge calls the film “a stately, explicitly rhetorical paean to the people…
Jennifer Salke Discusses Her Amazon Studios Movie Strategy
While Amazon Studios under new leader Jennifer Salke has come out swinging on the TV front, growth on the feature film front will continue to stress quality over volume. Expansion will come as will overall deals with talent, but there is no ambition to compete with the booming film slate of Netflix.
In an interview…
Amazon Film Chief Jason Ropell Leads The Charge To Broaden The Studio’s Global Imprint — Deadline Disruptors
It's been a good year for Amazon Studios. The company has proved its worth as a major player in the independent film market thanks to the critical and box office success of Manchester by the Sea, which it picked up in Sundance last year for $10 million before steering it to Oscar success in the Best Actor and…
Rising Rivers, Torrential Rains & A Bug In Charlie Hunnam’s Ear: The Pains Of Making Amazon’s ‘Lost City Of Z’ – CinemaCon
The story about 1920s British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while looking for an ancient city in the Amazon, “is a film that demands to be seen in the cinema,” said Amazon’s marketing and distribution czar Bob Berney at the studio’s CinemaCon lunch today.
Berney, as well as Lost City Of Z star Charlie…
Amazon Studios Execs: “We Believe In The Theatrical Window Fully For Our Releases” – CinemaCon
Jason Ropell, VP Worldwide Motion Pictures at Amazon Studios, told CinemaCon attendees during the streaming service’s afternoon luncheon that the company believes “in the theatrical window fully for our releases.”
“I have a very vivid memory of being here last year at CinemaCon … our team was brand new,” he said. “We…
Amazon’s Bob Berney At CinemaCon: “All Films We Are Acquiring Will Be Released Theatrically”
Earlier today Amazon saw five of its films included in the Official Selection for the Cannes Film Festival, so execs had plenty to crow about at the company’s CinemaCon luncheon. Head of marketing and distribution Bob Berney beamed about Amazon’s upcoming date with the Croisette, including Woody Allen’s Cafe Society…
Amazon Taps Albert Cheng And Bob Berney To Help Lead Movie Productions
Amazon Studios announced the two hires this morning. Former Disney ABC Television Group digital guru Albert Cheng is the new COO, and indie film marketer Bob Berney is Head of Movies Distribution and Marketing.
Cheng just left Disney after a decade of helping it to build its online and on-demand platforms. He had been…
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