EXCLUSIVE: London-based Alliance Media Partners (AMP) has hired Anthony Buckner as Head of Sales, Acquisitions and Distribution in the run up to the Cannes market.
Former Icon and Kaleidoscope exec Buckner will be overseeing the company’s Cannes slate of genre titles and will be tasked with expansion.
He is taking over from longtime AMP partner and sales vet James Norrie who has exited the company. AMP, founded in 2017 as a production, financing and sales company, is the media arm of Alliance Capital Partners group, a private asset management and finance company based in Dubai.
Current titles include The Morrigan with Toby Stephens and sci fi thriller New Life. Buckner has sold movies including The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, How I Spent My summer Vacation, Coriolanus, Prevenge, Hurricane and Creation Stories.
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