Alan Horn chairman and chief artistic officer for the Walt Disney Firm presents on the D23 Expo in 2019.Picture Group LA | Walt Disney Tv | Getty P
Alan Horn chairman and chief artistic officer for the Walt Disney Firm presents on the D23 Expo in 2019.
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Disney veteran Alan Horn is stepping down as co-chairman of Walt Disney Studios, the corporate introduced Monday.
Horn will proceed working as Disney’s chief artistic officer whereas his companion, Alan Bergman, runs Disney’s studio content material as the only chairman, efficient Jan. 1.
These government shifts come lower than two months after Disney introduced that it was restructuring its media and leisure divisions to focus extra closely on streaming content material.
Horn, 77, and Bergman, 54, have collectively led the studios group at Disney as co-chairmen since Might 2019. Collectively the pair presided over the combination of Lucasfilm and the Fox movie studios into the Walt Disney household and have helped usher in a brand new period of streaming content material for Disney+.
Throughout their tenure, the studios section has set plenty of data on the field workplace and launched blockbuster hits like “Frozen,” “Star Wars: The Power Awakens,” “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Endgame,” which is at present the highest-grossing movie of all time.
“The Walt Disney Studios’ achievements underneath the management of Alan Horn and Alan Bergman have been nothing in need of extraordinary,” mentioned Disney CEO Bob Chapek in a press release.
As chairman, Bergman will oversee artistic, manufacturing, advertising and marketing and operations for Disney’s studios content material, which incorporates Disney, Walt Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century, Searchlight Photos and Blue Sky Studios. He may also oversee Disney’s theatrical productions.
“I’m grateful to tackle the function of chairman of the studios as I imagine deeply in our folks, tradition, and the work we do,” mentioned Bergman, a 24-year Disney veteran.
From 2005 to 2019, Bergman served as president of Walt Disney Studios. In that function, he led the integrations of Pixar and Marvel Studios, and launched 25 movies that tallied a minimum of $1 billion on the world field workplace.
Horn, as chief artistic officer, will deal with the artistic facets of the studios’ content material pipeline. Previous to working for Disney, Horn was the president and chief working officer at Warner Bros. from 1999 to 2011.
“It has been an honor to steer The Walt Disney Studios over the previous eight-plus years,” Horn mentioned. “It has been an incredible run, and the time feels proper to shift my focus solely to our huge artistic slate.”