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EXCLUSIVE: The Russo Brothers’ AGBO accumulation workplace has made a trio of promotions successful its movie and TV squad including Michael Disco to President, Kassee Whiting to EVP, and Alessandra Mamán to SVP.
Disco will proceed to grow AGBO’s slate and group imaginative and accumulation strategy. At AGBO, his credits include The Whisper Man, John Rambo, and The Bluff; and he is presently successful pre-production on Extraction 3. He’s a 2 decades New Line Cinema vet, rising to EVP Production and shepherding 34 films that grossed astir $4.5 cardinal worldwide — among them Hairspray, Horrible Bosses, Game Night, San Andreas, and Rampage. In 2019, he launched his ain banner, The Disco Factory, nether an exclusive woody pinch Warner Bros. and New Line, executive producing The Many Saints of Newark and producing Andy Muschietti’s The Flash.
“Michael’s spot has ne'er been bound to a azygous format aliases genre. He has built world IP, mounted productions crossed nan astir competitory filming destinations successful nan world, and navigated a afloat scope of merchandise strategies, theatrical and streaming alike,” said AGBO Chief Creative Officer Angela Russo-Otstot, “That breadth is nan principle of a trans-media attack — and it’s precisely what makes him nan correct personification to guideline our storytelling crossed some movie and television.”
As EVP of Film & TV, Whiting will proceed to style AGBO’s imaginative guidance while overseeing her ain slate of projects. Her AGBO producing credits include All Fun and Games, The Whisper Man, The Bluff and she is presently guiding and upcoming slate of films astatine various studios including Amazon, Netflix, and Lionsgate. She began her profession astatine Summit Entertainment successful beingness and post-production connected the Twilight saga, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Warm Bodies, earlier overseeing accumulation and acquisitions astatine Open Road Films, wherever her credits included Dope, Bleed for This, Marshall, Home Again, and nan Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight.
As SVP of Film & TV, Mamán joins longtime AGBO SVP vets Albert J. Kim and Ari Costa. Mamán’s credits astatine nan workplace see nan local-language series Citadel: Diana and Citadel: Honey Bunny, on with Citadel Season 2 and nan upcoming Mercenary series. Mamán came to AGBO pursuing 7 years astatine Universal Content Productions, wherever she roseate to Director of Scripted Development pinch credits including Peacock’s Dr. Death, Netflix’s Brand New Cherry Flavor, and Hulu’s The Girl from Plainville.
Kim’s activity spans Deadly Class, Tygo, and nan Academy Award–winning Everything Everywhere All astatine Once, while Costa’s includes the Extraction trilogy, Mosul, The Bluff, and Mercenary.
“Audiences nary longer acquisition stories wrong nan lines of a azygous format, and immoderate of nan astir impactful storytelling has ne'er honored those borders — instead, it goes wherever nan communicative needs to go,” said Russo-Otstot. “AGBO was built connected that benignant of fluidity. Anthony, Joe, and I person each spent our careers moving betwixt movie and series, arsenic person galore of our executives, which made bringing nan 2 divisions together consciousness wholly earthy — and a deliberate measurement to foster that aforesaid well-roundedness crossed each of our leadership. It frees them to prosecute immoderate shape champion serves a filmmaker’s vision, alternatively than being bound to immoderate azygous medium.”
AGBO counts 5 releases this twelvemonth — including The Whisper Man (August 28th), starring Robert De Niro connected Netflix, and Avengers: Doomsday (December 18th), produced pinch Marvel and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo — and 5 much slated for adjacent year, among them nan local-language film Tygo, the Mercenary series, John Rambo, and Avengers: Secret Wars.
“Anthony, Joe, and I could not beryllium prouder of this group,” said Russo-Otstot. “We’ve always believed nan astir important thing that AGBO’s executives can beryllium to nan filmmaker is simply a bona fide shaper and a champion — personification who points each assets we person astatine realizing a singular imagination and past has nan subject and nan patience to springiness that imagination nan room it needs to breathe. Kassee, Alessandra, Albert, and Ari embody nan uncommon blend of ambition and meticulous attraction it takes to springiness an creator some full state and full assurance that each item is successful master hands. They are a ample portion of why filmmakers spot america pinch their astir individual work.”
