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Amazon Studios Hires Christian Davin as Global Head of
Amazon Studios has employed Christian Davin as the brand new world head of films advertising and marketing, a person with information advised TheWrap.
Davin involves Amazon from Netflix, the place he served as VP of world inventive advertising and marketing for movies, overseeing movies like “Roma,” “Bird Box,” “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” “Murder Mystery” and “The Irishman.”
At Amazon, Davin will report back to Head of Marketing at Prime Video Andy Donkin. He may even work intently with Amazon Head Jennifer Salke in addition to co-heads Ted Hope, Julie Rapaport and Matt Newman.
Vincent Scordino, senior advertising and marketing and distribution supervisor and Molly Albright, head of inventive advertising and marketing, will report on to Davin.
Prior to Netflix, Davin held senior positions at Warner Bros., MGM and Twentieth Century Fox. He started his profession on the United Artists Theaters in New York. Then, he labored as an assistant within the inventive advertising and marketing division at Miramax earlier than becoming a member of 20th Century Fox, the place he did the advertising and marketing marketing campaign for “Borat.”
At Warner Bros., he oversaw the advertising and marketing marketing campaign for movies like “Argo,” “A Star Is Born,” “Creed,” “42,” “The Town” and “Get Hard.”
25 Scariest Horror Movies to Stream on Netflix and Amazon for Halloween (Photos)
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If you’ve got a Netflix or Amazon Prime subscription, you will don’t have any scarcity of horror films inside attain at any given second — and TheWrap picked the scariest ones positive to induce nightmares.
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“Saw” via “Saw: The Final Chapter” (Netflix)
The “Saw” films are finest identified for being about folks getting murdered gruesomely. While there’s a truthful quantity dismemberment, the higher a part of the collection is how every of the flicks regularly expands the lore and each captures the highly effective dread of being caught in a lethal lure with no means out.
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“Starry Eyes” (Netflix)
The pursuit of fame for one younger actress leads her down an especially darkish path in “Starry Eyes.” One half jealous descent into insanity, one half Satanic cult film, “Starry Eyes” is nice about subverting expectations and getting its characters embroiled in horrific weirdness.
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“13 Cameras” (Netflix)
Anyone who’s ever had a landlord that gave them a bizarre vibe will relate to “13 Cameras,” wherein a younger couple rents a house from an especially creepy previous man. He’s obtained a voyeuristic bent, with cameras arrange all through the home, which is upsetting sufficient. That’d be upsetting sufficient, but it surely’s what the owner plans to do with all these cameras that makes “13 Cameras” so unsettling.
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“The Invitation” (Netflix)
Director Karyn Kusama places collectively a cocktail party in “The Invitation” that is a horror unto itself. The film finds a pair caught at what shortly turns into an especially uncomfortable dinner, however the entire film is punctuated by characters questioning if they are not simply overreacting to their mates’ awkward new religious convictions. The much less you recognize about this one stepping into, the higher.
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“The Last Exorcism” (Amazon Prime)
There’s no finish to discovered footage films nowadays, particularly on streaming providers. But simply because a style attracts a variety of weak, low-budget choices doesn’t suggest they’re all unhealthy, and “The Last Exorcism” is the sort of film that exhibits the energy of discovered footage achieved properly. It follows a preacher who admits to scamming folks with exorcisms and turns to debunking — however then brings him right into a scenario the place he is undecided if what he sees is faux or not.