LuckyChap Adds Veteran Exec Milan Popelka as Partner – Film News in Brief

variety.com:

LuckyChap (“Barbie,” the upcoming “Wuthering Heights”) adds veteran studio executive Milan Popelka as a partner, joining the company’s current partners Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara and Margot Robbie.

Popelka brings over 15 years of experience as Chief Operating Officer of FilmNation and served as executive producer on many of the company’s most-acclaimed projects, including the currently Academy Award-nominated films “Anora” and “Conclave” as well as “Arrival” and “Promising Young Woman,” which was a LuckyChap production. “We are thrilled to have Milan join our team at LuckyChap in a time when entrepreneurialism is at a premium,” stated Ackerley, McNamara and Robbie. “His experience, expertise, and unwavering commitment to maximizing the potential of every project align perfectly with our filmmaker-first ethos.

This is an exciting next step in the evolution of LuckyChap, and we look forward to the impact he will make across the company as we pursue new and diverse ways to empower our creative partners.” In his new role, a press release notes, Popelka will oversee business operations and strategic growth across LuckyChap’s expanding portfolio of film, TV and other ventures.

He will play a key role in managing the company’s operational and financial strategies, while continuing to advance LuckyChap’s entrepreneurial approach to content creation and production as the company the company looks to ambitiously scale the capabilities of its story-telling platform.