Movie government Tristen Tuckfield has been named chief industrial officer at upstart studio Marvel Venture, Selection has solely realized.
The worldwide skewing “religion and values” content material store will process Tuckfield with growing and managing offers on behalf of the agency’s movie and TV slate. Reporting to Marvel Venture CEO Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten, Tuckfield can even lead distribution, co-production and co-financing, acquisitions and create alternate income streams in classes like merchandise.
“Tristen is a revered chief who brings deep ardour and experience, and I’m so excited to welcome her to Marvel Venture. With Tristen on our staff we are able to transfer with each velocity and high quality to deliver extra brave tales to life for a worldwide viewers,” Merryman Hoogstraten mentioned in a press release.
Tuckfield joins Marvel Venture from Village Roadshow Footage, the place she served as government vice chairman in movie. There she developed, packaged, financed and oversaw distribution methods on 5 options. She started her profession as a founding member of 30West, an incubator behind titles like “I, Tonya,” the Netflix juggernaut “Tiger King,” and “Late Night time” starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson.
Present Marvel Venture titles in course of embody the biblical sequence “Home of David” and the faith-based drama “It’s Not Like That,” arrange at Amazon MGM and Prime Video, respectively. They’ve additionally acquired the forthcoming characteristic movie “The Breadwinner” starring comic Nate Bargatze at Sony’s TriStar Footage, and the movie “Sarah’s Oil” which is able to launch Christmas Day through Amazon. “Flyer,” a story characteristic concerning the Wright Brothers and the invention of flight, can be in growth.
Launched in 2023, Marvel Venture kicked off with a reported $75 million in funding from backers together with Sovereign’s Capital, Lionsgate, UTA and Jason Blum.
