New Chief Tapped for Amazon Studios -- WSJ
2020年2月11日 - 5:02PM
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By Joe Flint
This article is being republished as part of our daily
reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S.
print edition of The Wall Street Journal (February 11, 2020).
Amazon.com Inc. has tapped a top Sony executive to oversee its
entertainment operations.
Mike Hopkins, currently chairman of Sony Pictures Television and
a former chief executive of the streaming platform Hulu, will join
Amazon later this month as a senior vice president in charge of its
Prime video platform and its movie and television studios, Amazon
said Monday.
The entertainment business at Amazon had previously reported to
Jeff Blackburn, a senior vice president who said last year that he
would take a sabbatical in 2020 to spend more time with his family
and return to the company next year.
Unlike Mr. Blackburn, who cut a wide swath at Amazon, Mr.
Hopkins will initially have a smaller role. Mr. Blackburn, who has
been with Amazon for more than two decades and is one of Chief
Executive Jeff Bezos' key advisers, also supervised advertising and
business development for the company.
Mr. Hopkins will split his time between Los Angeles and Amazon's
Seattle headquarters and report to Mr. Bezos.
In Mr. Hopkins, Amazon gets an executive with a background
running a streaming platform and a production entity. He is also
well-versed in television distribution. Before his roles at Sony
Corp. and Hulu, he was a senior executive at 21st Century Fox,
where he ran distribution for its cable-network operations.
In a memo to staff, Mr. Blackburn said, "Mike comes to us with
over 20 years of industry experience at Fox, Hulu, and Sony. He has
an extensive track record as a global business leader in media,
film and TV -- negotiating landmark content and distribution
agreements, running marketing operations, leading product/tech
teams, and overseeing production of breakthrough television
content."
Jen Salke, the head of Amazon Studios, who had reported to Mr.
Blackburn, will now report to Mr. Hopkins. The two were rising
executives together at 21st Century Fox. Sony makes content for
Amazon including "The Boys," which premiered last year and has
become very successful on the platform. Sony is also working on a
TV version of the movie "A League of Their Own" for Amazon.
Amazon's programming efforts have been mixed. The company has
made some successful and critically acclaimed shows such as "Jack
Ryan" and "Fleabag" but it is yet to have a hit the size of
Netflix's "Stranger Things" or Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale."
Mr. Hopkins joined Sony in 2017. In a memo to staff, Sony
Pictures Chairman Tony Vinciquerra said Keith LeGoy, president of
world-wide distribution, and Jeff Frost, head of U.S. production,
would now oversee the studio's TV operations.
Write to Joe Flint at joe.flint@wsj.com
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