EXCLUSIVE: Dan Berger, Amblin‘s EVP of Marketing and Communications, is heading over to Amazon as their VP of Global Media and Entertainment Communications, Deadline has learned.
Berger will start in the New Year. Berger will oversee communications for both Mike Hopkins’ Prime Video team and Steve Boom’s games and music division at Amazon.
That latter sector encompasses Wondery, Audible, Twitch and Amazon Music. Amazon’s VP of Public Relations for the Studios and Digital Video Corey Shields exited in May after three years with the streamer.
We hear from those close to Berger he was blown away by the Amazon opportunity with the choice to depart Amblin a difficult one given the EVP’s reverence for Steven Spielberg and the execs at the company as well as the studio’s next chapter.
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