Lionsgate Promotes Transactional Residence Enjoyment Organization Executives

Lionsgate has promoted two executives, Adam Frank and Jill Anderson, to lead its transactional home entertainment enterprise.

The move arrives amid a sturdy interval for Lionsgate’s house enjoyment business enterprise — which includes electronic sell-as a result of (obtain-to-individual), online video-on-demand from customers and physical media — with an business market place share of 11.9% in the first six months of the yr. It is the maximum sixth-month share in the studio’s historical past, pushed by new releases “John Wick: Chapter Four,” “Plane” and “Sisu,” as well as library titles “Knives Out,” “Django Unchained,” “Dirty Dancing” and “Sicario.”

Frank, a 12-year veteran of Lionsgate, has been elevated to govt VP of international associate management of gross sales and distribution. He’ll be overseeing the company’s worldwide transactional digital and packaged media operations and heading up revenue, licensing and strategic setting up initiatives for the home leisure group. Frank has overseen the digital dwelling enjoyment rollouts of “The Hunger Games,” “John Wick,” “Saw,” “Expendables” and “Now You See Me” franchises, as properly as Television collection like “Mad Men.” Prior to his marketing, he served as senior VP of the studio’s around the world transactional EST and VOD small business. He proceeds to report to Lionsgate Motion Photograph Team president of worldwide licensing and distribution Ron Schwartz.

Anderson, who just celebrated her 20-year anniversary with Lionsgate, has been promoted to head of dwelling enjoyment revenue and partner administration. In her new position, she will spearhead the electronic household entertainment and packaged media gross sales teams and report to Frank. Her expanded obligations incorporate digital residence leisure sales of Lionsgate’s library and portfolio of brands in addition to her ongoing obligations for overseeing packaged media sales. She formerly served as senior VP of dwelling amusement market-through revenue.

During her tenure, Anderson has led Lionsgate’s packaged media residence entertainment enterprise for the company’s most significant retail accounts, managing the packaged media releases of all significant franchise and tentpole titles like Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Canines,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker,” James Cameron’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” and Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran.”

“Our transactional house enjoyment business carries on to prosper because of to our team’s means to produce bespoke windowing methods for our theatrical releases and library titles and in excess of-change across their PVOD, transactional EST, VOD and packaged media home windows,” mentioned Schwartz. “Adam and Jill are extraordinarily talented “homegrown” Lionsgate executives who are driving our transactional organization to just one of its strongest performances in the latest years. With their sturdy associations, industry abilities and company acumen, they will support guide its ongoing development when capitalizing on new opportunities going ahead.”