Activision Blizzard Studios Names Stacey Sher Co-President to Bring Activision Blizzard’s Iconic Franchises to Television &...
January 13 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Two-Time Academy Award Nominee and AFI Award
Winner Joins Co-President and Former Disney Executive Nick van Dyk
to Co-Lead Studio
Sher’s Credits Include The Hateful Eight, Pulp
Fiction, Django Unchained, Garden State, Erin Brockovich, Matilda
and Into the Badlands
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced that
acclaimed producer Stacey Sher has been named co-president of
Activision Blizzard Studios, which is devoted to creating
television and films based on the company’s library of iconic and
globally-recognized intellectual properties, including Activision
Publishing’s Call of Duty® and Skylanders®, and
Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo® and StarCraft®.
Sher, who has produced more than two dozen major motion pictures,
including Quentin Tarantino’s most recent film, The Hateful Eight,
as well as nearly a dozen TV series and TV movies will partner with
former Disney executive Nick van Dyk to co-lead Hollywood’s newest
studio.
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Activision Blizzard Studios Co-Presidents
Stacey Sher (L) and Nick van Dyk (R) (Photo: Activision
Blizzard)
“Stacey is a rare talent behind two decades of award-winning
television series and films. Her ability to collaborate with the
most inspired, talented people in entertainment and her unyielding
commitment to creativity make her perfectly suited to Activision
Blizzard Studios,” said Bobby Kotick, Chief Executive Officer of
Activision Blizzard. “As custodians of some of the world’s most
successful entertainment franchises, we are thoughtfully and
creatively expanding our franchises through television and films in
a way that will honor the commitment our audiences make to our
games.”
“Stacey’s immense talent is a great fit for Activision Blizzard
Studios, and together we’ll bring Activision Blizzard’s hugely
popular intellectual property to both existing fans and new
audiences,” said Nick van Dyk, co-president of Activision Blizzard
Studios. “Our model is unique: we have a rich library of franchises
created over three decades with tens of millions of fans, direct
relationships with our audiences and Activision Blizzard’s business
capabilities, which enable us to operate with incredible efficiency
in content creation, marketing and distribution as compared to the
traditional studios. Our focused and disciplined strategy will
drive tremendous franchise value for Activision Blizzard as we
bring audiences new ways to engage with the intellectual property
they love. I couldn’t be more thrilled to partner with Stacey in
building this business.”
“As its large and loyal fanbase can attest, Activision Blizzard
has created franchises that mean so much to audiences over the
course of 35 years. I’m excited about our mandate to create filmed
entertainment based on Activision Blizzard games that is as great
as the games themselves,” said Stacey Sher, co-president of
Activision Blizzard Studios. “I look forward to joining Nick,
Bobby, and the insanely talented and forward-thinking team at
Activision Blizzard to develop an even greater voice for these
franchises by bringing them into the world of television and
film.”
Sher is a two-time Academy Award nominee, most recently for
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo
DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington.
She was previously nominated for Steven Soderbergh’s Erin
Brockovich, with Julia Roberts and Albert Finney.
Sher’s film credits also include Academy Award Best Picture
nominee Pulp Fiction, the 2005 Independent Spirit Award-winning
Garden State, and three films with director Steven Soderbergh:
Contagion, Erin Brockovich, and Out of Sight. Additional credits
include Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center; Matilda; Along Came
Polly; Reality Bites; Get Shorty and its sequel, Be Cool; Gattaca;
Man on the Moon; Skeleton Key; Freedom Writers; Burnt; A Walk Among
the Tombstones; Freeheld; Wish I Was Here; Living Out Loud; Camp;
How High; AMC’s hit television series “Into the Badlands”; and
Comedy Central’s “Reno 911,” for which Sher served as an executive
producer for all six seasons.
About Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard, Inc., a member of the S&P 500, is the
world’s most successful standalone interactive entertainment
company. Activision Blizzard develops and publishes games based on
some of the most beloved entertainment franchises, including Call
of Duty®, Destiny, Skylanders®, Guitar Hero®, World of Warcraft®,
StarCraft®, Diablo®, and Hearthstone®: Heroes of Warcraft™. The
company is one of the FORTUNE “100 Best Companies To Work For®”
2015. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision
Blizzard has operations throughout the world, and its games are
played in 196 countries. More information about Activision Blizzard
and its products can be found on the company’s
website, www.activisionblizzard.com.
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