Alan Horn Rejoins Warner Bros. Discovery As Marketing consultant – Deadline

Whereas quite a lot of executives have left Warner Bros. as the mixing with Discovery continues, Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav shored up the studio’s transition staff immediately with a veteran who is aware of the studio possibly higher than anybody: former president and chief working officer Alan Horn.

“I’m thrilled to share with you that Alan Horn, one of the crucial revered studio executives within the trade, has agreed to help me in a guide position throughout this transition interval, beginning August 1. Nobody is aware of this enterprise higher than Alan does. He has had a unprecedented profession spanning almost half a century,” Zaslav introduced in a memo immediately. “Most not too long ago, he served as chairman and later co-chairman and chief inventive officer of The Walt Disney Studios, the place for a interval of almost 10 years, he oversaw the manufacturing of all movement photos and the mixing of Lucasfilm and the Fox movie studios, in addition to the enlargement into producing content material for Disney’s streaming companies.”

Horn had a terrific run at Warner Bros. the place he and then-Chairman and CEO Barry Meyer oversaw the Harry Potter franchise and Christopher Nolan’s epic Darkish Knight trilogy. Horn was additionally the chief producer on all three movies in the Hobbit Trilogy. The duo was compelled out in 2013.

It’s a savvy transfer for Zaslav, who’s attending to know the city and who, in present studio chiefs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, has new executives with deep expertise relationships and a few sense of managing an enormous franchise — as they did with James Bond at MGM — however nowhere close to the depth of data that Horn has. Ditto his sense of the studio traditionally.

Zaslav:

Over the previous six months, I’ve been lucky to spend time with Alan. He has been beneficiant and massively useful to me, and I’ve discovered a ton in regards to the enterprise from our conversations. I couldn’t be extra excited to have the ability to proceed to faucet into his pondering, experience and stellar instincts as we transition our movie enterprise and hone our movement image technique for the longer term. And I do know Mike and Pam are equally excited to have Alan’s ear and to have the ability to profit from his wealth of expertise gained from such an illustrious observe report.

Right here is the Warner Bros. Discovery chief’s memo in full:

All, 

I’m thrilled to share with you that Alan Horn, one of the crucial revered studio executives within the trade, has agreed to help me in a guide position throughout this transition interval, beginning August 1.

Nobody is aware of this enterprise higher than Alan does. He has had a unprecedented profession spanning almost half a century. Most not too long ago, he served as chairman and later co-chairman and chief inventive officer of The Walt Disney Studios, the place for a interval of almost 10 years, he oversaw the manufacturing of all movement photos and the mixing of Lucasfilm and the Fox movie studios, in addition to the enlargement into producing content material for Disney’s streaming companies.

Over the previous six months, I’ve been lucky to spend time with Alan. He has been beneficiant and massively useful to me, and I’ve discovered a ton in regards to the enterprise from our conversations. I couldn’t be extra excited to have the ability to proceed to faucet into his pondering, experience and stellar instincts as we transition our movie enterprise and hone our movement image technique for the longer term. And I do know Mike and Pam are equally excited to have Alan’s ear and to have the ability to profit from his wealth of expertise gained from such an illustrious observe report.

In some ways this can be a homecoming. Alan started his profession with the legendary Norman Lear and companions Jerry Perenchio and Bud Yorkin, and later co-founded and led Fortress Rock Leisure earlier than serving as president and COO of Warner Bros. for 12 years. He is aware of the ins and outs of this studio and helped construct it into the powerhouse it’s immediately. He additionally has wide-spread expertise relations and nice respect and appreciation for our unparalleled assortment of IP, and can be capable of present a novel and valued perspective to the general inventive course of. We’re so glad to have him be part of us.

David