IMAX Entertainment President, Megan Colligan is stepping down per a note just dropped to staff from Imax CEO Rich Gelfond. It was first announced that the former Paramount Pictures Global Marketing and Distribution Boss was joining Imax in October 2019, taking over for departing CEO, Imax Entertainment and Senior EVP Imax Corp., Greg Foster.
Colligan was prized as a key hire given her working relationships with filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Michael Bay, and J.J.
Abrams to name a few. She was key behind the scenes in getting exhibition re-opened during the pandemic with proper Covid safety initiatives, and was instrumental in the Imax relese of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, the first tentpole to reopen theaters.
Other highlights from Colligan while she was at Imax included stunting Imax auditoriums with special cinema fare during dry tentpole periods.
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