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New Regency Expands Footprint & Opens UK Office
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Charlotte Thorp, Senior Vice President and Head of International Sales New Regency
In a move that expands its international footprint, New Regency has appointed Charlotte Thorp Senior Vice President and Head of International Sales as part of the company’s strategic growth plans. Opening its European office anchored in the UK, the office will serve as a hub for both production and the licensing and distribution of the company’s vast content library and upcoming productions to territories outside of North America.
Yariv Milchan, Chairman of New Regency, to whom Thorp will report, says: “The opening of our UK office actively aligns with our growth plans for New Regency internationally.”exception of a period during which Lionsgate represented its library internationally.
In her new role, Thorp will be charged with driving the international sales of New Regency’s expansive library of over 140 films as well as overseeing the international TV sales of upcoming New Regency product. New Regency’s library includes the Academy Award®-winners Birdman and 12 Years A Slave in addition to blockbusters like The Revenant Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Fight Club and LA Confidential.
New Regency’s upcoming theatrical film slate includes Bohemian Rhapsody, the highly anticipated Queen biographical feature starring Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, slated to release on November 2, 2018; Widows, the heist thriller directed by Steve McQueen and staring Viola Davis to be released on November 16, 2018; and next year’s James Gray’s Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, Ruth Negga, Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland.
About Charlotte Thorp
Thorp joins New Regency from Lionsgate, where she oversaw the company’s activities in the EMEA region for linear, SVOD, AVOD sales, as well as created new relationships and built business opportunities in the region. She managed an impressive sales slate of feature films including La La Land, Hacksaw Ridge, Sicario and The Hunger Games franchise; and major primetime television drama series such as Orange is the New Black, Nashville, Blacksails and Spartacus. Thorp’s other executive positions before Lionsgate included SVP, Head of Film and TV Sales for eOne UK; Director of Worldwide Sales and Distribution - Broadcast, DVD, New Media for HanWay Films Ltd; and Director of Sales for MTV Networks International.
About New Regency
Founded in 1991 by renowned producer Arnon Milchan, New Regency is actively engaged in entertaining the world. The company has produced some of the most successful and critically-acclaimed films of all time with over 140 films and more than 50 television series in the company’s vast library, including Academy Award®-winner The Revenant (2016) and the back-to-back Academy Award®-winning Best Pictures, 12 Years A Slave (2014) and Birdman (2015). The company also backed celebrated filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptual virtual reality installation Carne y Arena, and the Broadway musical Pretty Woman starring Samantha Barks, adapted from the 1990 romantic comedy film also produced by New Regency. New Regency is dedicated to continuing to foster its unparalleled filmmaker relationships and boasts partnerships with the most acclaimed and sought-after creatives in the film and television industry.
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