Exclusive: “We’re going through a sea change,” Lionsgate executive says of the film business today.
This Sunday, industry veteran and sales supremo Patrick Wachsberger, co-chairman, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, will be honoured at the Zurich Film Festival with the event’s Game Changer Award, which is bestowed on an individual who has been able to “successfully navigate through the aggressively changing entertainment landscape.”
Wachsberger’s more than 30-year navigation of those choppy waters has seen him play a pivotal role in two billion dollar franchises, multiple Oscar and Palme d’Or campaigns and two of the industry’s most successful independent film companies of recent decades.
However, the film business is more unpredictable than ever claims the former Summit boss, who spoke to Screen shortly before the surprise news that fellow Lionsgate co-chair Rob Friedman is to leave the company.
“We’re going through a sea change,” says the energetic La-based Frenchman. “The business...
This Sunday, industry veteran and sales supremo Patrick Wachsberger, co-chairman, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, will be honoured at the Zurich Film Festival with the event’s Game Changer Award, which is bestowed on an individual who has been able to “successfully navigate through the aggressively changing entertainment landscape.”
Wachsberger’s more than 30-year navigation of those choppy waters has seen him play a pivotal role in two billion dollar franchises, multiple Oscar and Palme d’Or campaigns and two of the industry’s most successful independent film companies of recent decades.
However, the film business is more unpredictable than ever claims the former Summit boss, who spoke to Screen shortly before the surprise news that fellow Lionsgate co-chair Rob Friedman is to leave the company.
“We’re going through a sea change,” says the energetic La-based Frenchman. “The business...
- 9/24/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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