VMI Releasing Taps ‘Skinamarink’ Exec Producer Jonathan Barkan As Head Of U.S. Distribution
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: VMI Releasing, the distribution arm of sales and production outfit VMI Worldwide, has hired Jonathan Barkan as their new Head of US Distribution.
Barkan comes from Mutiny Pictures, which he helped negotiate the sale of to New Jersey distribution company BayView Entertainment.
Barkan was Managing Editor at genre website Bloody Disgusting, which was acquired by Cinedigm in 2021. He was then Editor-in-Chief of Dread Central, which was acquired by Epic Pictures Group in 2017, where he also began acquiring titles for Epic’s genre label Dread.
He then helped launch The Horror Collective, a boutique genre distribution label, as VP of Acquisitions and Distribution, before joining Mutiny Pictures in June 2021 as their Head of Acquisitions and Development Director.
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