Former Amazon Studios Canada originals boss Christina Wayne would be the new Managing Director of Saudi Arabia-based MBC Studios.
She is going to succeed Peter Smith, who we final week revealed was stepping down after 4 years. Smith will stay as an advisor.
Former AMC Networks exec Wayne and Smith are well-known to one another. In 2012, Smith joined Cineflix Studios as CEO when Wayne was Managing Director.
At MBC Studios, the manufacturing arm of the Center East and North Africa-focused community MBC Group, Wayne will look to proceed a push into premium non-English-language TV packages.
MBC operates 17 free-to-air satellite tv for pc channels and streaming service Shahid.
Sam Barnett, Group CEO of MBC Group, acknowledged: “We’re extremely excited to be welcoming Christina Wayne to the position of Managing Director at MBC Studios. Christina brings along with her a wealth of worldwide experience in content material growth and manufacturing the place she has labored throughout a large number of territories and languages and led on the event of Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning sequence.
“We stay up for her constructing on the workforce’s successes as we proceed to increase our horizons in worldwide content material even additional.”
He added Smith was leaving with “strong and profitable workforce with an thrilling slate of initiatives,” and pointed to exhibits comparable to Rashash, Rise of the Witches and Satan’s Promise.
Wayne was most just lately Principal Inventive Govt and Head of Originals for Canada and Australia for Amazon Studios, making exhibits for Prime Video. She held that position for 3 years earlier than exiting in late 2022 and was recognized for presided over native unique workshops, with a deal with interconnected sequence and codecs.
Additional again she held roles at Meeting Leisure, Cineflix and AMC. As Senior Vice-President of Scripted Sequence and Miniseries for AMC, she oversaw the event and manufacturing of exhibits together with Mad Males and Breaking Dangerous.
Newly appointed Wayne commented: “I’m completely delighted to hitch MBC Group and MBC Studios and have heard nice issues in regards to the unbelievable workforce Peter and the remainder of MBC have constructed. This can be a very thrilling enterprise for me, and I can not wait to get absolutely concerned in one of many world’s most enjoyable territories for content material manufacturing.”
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