Disney Promotes Tony Chambers to EVP of Theatrical

Disney has promoted Tony Chambers to function the chief vp, theatrical distribution.

Chambers replaces Cathleen Taff within the function, who had been within the place since 2018 however is remaining with the corporate as president of manufacturing companies, franchise administration and multicultural engagement for Disney’s content material group.

Chambers will report back to Justin Connolly, the president of platform distribution, who stories to Kareem Daniel, chairman of Disney media and leisure distribution.

Disney lately introduced a reorganization constructed round streaming and Disney+, which is headed up by Daniel to deal with price range and distribution selections. The distribution facet now determines whether or not to ship motion pictures to theaters, Disney+ or Hulu, whereas the content material group is concentrated on creating new product. The change comes as theaters have remained closed in main markets amid the pandemic and Disney has experimented with shifting movies to Disney+ or as premium video on demand releases, with “Mulan” being the primary instance and the upcoming “Raya and the Last Dragon” to observe the identical mannequin in March.

Chambers’ function might be to steer and combine all home and worldwide distribution throughout theatrical and residential leisure, which encompasses releases from Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century, Searchlight and Blue Sky Studios.

Chambers has been with The Walt Disney Company for greater than 25 years, most lately main studio distribution actions in EMEA and as Country Manager for TWDC within the UK/Ireland. He is presently based mostly within the U.Okay.

Variety first reported the information.