Former Amazon MGM Exec Chris Brearton Joins AGBO As Companion

Final week, Amazon Studios/Prime Film senior VP launched that Chris Brearton was leaving Amazon “to go after a model title new selection exterior the corporate.” Now everyone knows what that prospect is: Brearton, who had most only in the near past served as vp of Key Video clip Studios Enterprise Technique at MGM+ and MGM Varied Tv set, has joined indie media agency AGBO as a affiliate.

At AGBO, he’ll be element of agency leaders Anthony and Joe Russo (the directors who co-launched the corporate in 2017) and affiliate Donald Mustard. As affiliate, Brearton will oversee “all sides of the company’s firm technique, operations and growth shifting prematurely.”

“Chris is a dynamic and reliable chief contained in the commerce with a confirmed skill to spearhead transformational strategic initiatives, push operational excellence, and foster a convention of creativeness and innovation,” stated AGBO co-founder Anthony Russo in an announcement. “His data and enterprise acumen may probably be instrumental as we embark on this pivotal phase of accelerated progress throughout digital, gaming, and linear media landscapes.”

At Amazon, Brearton served combine MGM into the company, buying beforehand served as major doing work officer at MGM. Brearton was instrumental in overseeing the $8.5 billion sale of the studio to Amazon. Earlier to MGM, Brearton led the Century Metropolis workplace of world regulation company Latham & Watkins as working affiliate.

Brearton reps the most recent main rent by AGBO following the arrival of Mustard, who joined as affiliate in November. Mustard, the previous chief inventive officer at Epic Online game titles and co-founder of ChAIR Leisure, oversaw the expansion of Fortnite as a gaming powerhouse. At AGBO, Mustard is billed with overseeing AGBO’s “enlargement of community-pushed interactive and immersive actions in video on-line video games and digital worlds.”

“Donald’s groundbreaking creative technique transforms film on-line video games into cultural phenomena and report-breaking successes,” co-founder Joe Russo talked about in an announcement. “As veterans of their respective fields, Donald and Chris embrace every the complexity and substitute launched by at any time-evolving utilized sciences and modes of storytelling. With their experience, we’ll leverage our inventive instruments to winner best-in-class earth-building whereas concurrently creating, manufacturing, and releasing expressions all by means of a variety of types of media.”

The Russos, Mustard, Brearton and chief artistic officer Angela Russo-Otstot now make up the important level administration group at AGBO.

“Anthony, Joe, and Donald are pioneers on this commerce, and AGBO stands on the vanguard of the model new media frontier as a trailblazing studio,” Brearton talked about in an announcement. “I’m excited to get the job finished with this trendy group as they flip their formidable and inventive imaginative and prescient to hurry up transformational planet-constructing and world franchises throughout all media platforms appropriate right into a actuality.”