EXCLUSIVE: As Barbie approaches the top of a spectacularly profitable first month in theaters, the Israel Movie Competition has set one of many movie’s nice champions, Mattel Chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz, to obtain its 2023 IFF Business Management Award.
Recognizing visionaries and transformative change-makers who show exemplary management traits and have achieved important success whereas inspiring others, the prize can be introduced to Kreiz on the L.A. pageant’s Opening Evening Gala, going down on the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on November 1st.
Kreiz joined Mattel, the worldwide toy firm boasting one of many world’s strongest portfolios of youngsters’s and household leisure franchises, in 2018. He has since led a multi-year transformation technique that has set Mattel as much as capitalize maximally on its breadth of IP.
Below Kreiz’s management, Mattel Movies has introduced 14 live-action movement footage in lively growth with main studio companions. Mattel Tv has on the similar time expanded its content material providing and now reaches audiences throughout 37 languages in 191 international locations. Mattel’s first main theatrical film, the Margot Robbie-led Barbie — an surprising feminist tackle the long-lasting doll — has damaged out of late as a field workplace juggernaut and cultural phenomenon, setting quite a few information for each Warner Bros. Photos and filmmaker Greta Gerwig. Debuting in Israel because the highest-grossing film of the yr so far, the movie surpassed the billion-dollar mark in simply over 17 days in launch, changing into the primary by a solo feminine director to take action. It additionally lately surpassed the Batman pic The Darkish Knight from Gerwig’s current field workplace competitor, Oppenheimer filmmaker Christopher Nolan, because it notched the highest-grossing home launch in Warner Bros historical past.
Mentioned the Israel Movie Competition’s founder and govt director Meir Fenigstein of this yr’s Management Award honoree, ‘Ynon Kreiz’s visionary management and unimaginable achievements at Mattel, most lately Barbie‘s triumph on the worldwide field workplace, are thrilling past creativeness. In simply over 5 years, Ynon has remodeled Mattel into an IP powerhouse, with its first theatrical launch shattering information and changing into a showcase for the experience of the Mattel Movies division he created.
“On a private word,” he continued, “I fondly recall Ynon as a UCLA Anderson MBA pupil volunteering on the Israel Movie Competition. Now, 30 years later, I’m proud to be recognizing and honoring him on the Competition for his personal superb accomplishments.”
Added Kreiz, “I’ve lengthy admired the work of the Competition to advertise and have fun Israel’s thriving movie and tv business, introducing the nation’s inspiring content material, creators, and artists to U.S. audiences. I’m honored to be receiving this award from a company whose mission I so strongly assist.”
Previous to becoming a member of Mattel, Kreiz served as Chairman and CEO of short-form content material chief Maker Studios, earlier than that holding the identical roles on the Endemol Group. He earlier served as a Common Accomplice at Balderton Capital (previously Benchmark Capital Europe), one of many main early-stage startup traders in Europe, and co-founded Fox Children Europe NV, the place he served as Chairman and CEO.
The achieved Israeli-born govt obtained his BA in Economics and Administration from Tel Aviv College and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson College of Administration. He serves on the Board of Administrators of Warner Music Group and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the UCLA Anderson College of Administration, in addition to the Paley Heart for Media. He’s additionally a member of Enterprise Roundtable, an affiliation of main American CEOs, and the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ Government Department.
Because it was established practically 4 a long time in the past, the Israel Movie Competition has introduced greater than 1,200 options and introduced a whole bunch of Israeli filmmakers to the U.S. to share their artwork, the objective being to highlight Israel’s thriving movie and tv business and enrich the American expertise of its social and cultural variety. The thirty sixth version will run from November 1st – fifteenth.
