In a coup for the company Bleecker Street has hired former Paramount executive Kyle Davies as president of distribution.
In the new role Davies will lead the company’s theatrical distribution strategies and manage the wider distribution team. He most recently served as president of domestic distribution at Paramount and worked across A Quiet Place, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Bumblebee, Rocketman, Arrival, Fences, Daddy’s Home 2 and Annihilation, among others.
Bleecker Street’s upcoming releases include Infinite Storm with Naomi Watts on March 25; Montana Story with Haley Lu Richardson on May 13; Emma Holly Jones’ Mr. Malcolm’s List with Freida Pinto on July 1; James Ponsoldt’s Summering on July 15; Dale Dickey’s A Love Song on July 29; Abi Damaris Corbin’s 892 with John Boyega on August 26th; and Nattiv’s Golda starring Helen Mirren later this year.
Bleecker Street CEO Andrew Karpen hailed Davies’s “unparalleled relationships with exhibitors and a stellar track record in the theatrical distribution space”.
Davies added that Bleecker Street had assembled a “sophisticated and diverse slate of independent films” and looked forward to being part of the company’s evolution.
Prior to Paramount he was president of worldwide distribution for Relativity Media and EVP of theatrical distribution for Overture Films. Before that he served in an earlier stint at Paramount as SVP of distribution following its purchase of DreamWorks.
Bleecker Street recently acquired Catherine Hardwicke’s Mafia Mamma starring Toni Collette which will shoot this spring, as well as Sundance premieres 892 and A Love Song. The company recently signed an exclusive three-year output deal with Showtime Networks.
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