JP Richards has left his submit as Apple’s Head of Film Marketing Strategy, having notified his staff of his choice this morning, Deadline can affirm.
Richards joined the corporate from Warner Bros. Pictures in January of final 12 months, overseeing advertising campaigns for movies throughout the Apple ecosystem and reporting to Head of Video Marketing, Chris Van Amburg. While it’s unclear as but the place Richards will land, we hear that Apple will identify his alternative inside a matter of weeks.
Richards was a part of the staff that labored on the advertising for such titles because the Tom Hanks starrer Finch, Benjamin Cleary’s sci-fi drama Swan Song, starring Mahershala Ali, and Cherry with Tom Holland. He beforehand served as Co-President of Worldwide Marketing for Warner Bros., there overseeing campaigns for titles starting from Creed to The Conjuring, Joker and A Star Is Born.
Prior to his time at that studio, Richards was at Universal Pictures for over a decade, there overseeing digital campaigns for franchises like Fast & Furious and Despicable Me.
Upcoming movies from Apple embody writer-director Cooper Raif’s Sundance Dramatic Audience Award winner Cha Cha Real Smooth; its animated function Luck with Skydance; the function docs Black & Blues: The Colorful Ballad of Louis Armstrong and The Sound of 007; Raymond & Ray, starring Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke; Peter Farrelly’s dramedy The Greatest Beer Run Ever; the vacation movie Spirited, starring Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell and Octavia Spencer; Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Killers of the Flower Moon; Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller Argylle; the thriller Sharper, starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith, Briana Middleton and John Lithgow; Tetris, starring Taron Egerton; and Antoine Fuqua’s Will Smith starrer Emancipation.
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