EXCLUSIVE: Dan Berger, Amblin‘s EVP of Marketing and Communications, is heading over to Amazon as their VP of Global Media and Entertainment Communications, Deadline has realized. Berger will begin within the New Year.

Berger will oversee communications for each Mike Hopkins’ Prime Video workforce and Steve Boom’s video games and music division at Amazon. That latter sector encompasses Wondery, Audible, Twitch and Amazon Music.

Amazon’s VP of Public Relations for the Studios and Digital Video Corey Shields exited in May after three years with the streamer.

We hear from these near Berger he was blown away by the Amazon alternative with the selection to depart Amblin a tough one given the EVP’s reverence for Steven Spielberg and the execs on the firm in addition to the studio’s subsequent chapter.

Berger got here to Amblin in September 2019 from twentieth Century Fox the place he was concerned in such pics as their Oscar profitable blockbuster Bohemian Rhapsody, The Shape of Water, The Greatest Showman, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Deadpool 2 amongst others. Prior to Fox, Berger led communications for DreamWorks Animation, working carefully with its Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg till DWA’s acquisition by Comcast/NBCU in 2016. Previously, Berger served in plenty of senior company communications roles at twenty first Century Fox and its company predecessor, News Corporation.  From 2008-2013, he was VP of Corporate Communications for News Corporation and, following the Company’s separation into two separate entities, was elevated to SVP of Corporate Communications at twenty first Century Fox.  He additionally served as a VP of Fox Interactive Media, News Corporation’s digital media group.  Prior to News Corporation, Berger held plenty of PR and Communications roles within the media group at Yahoo!, Inc, and commenced his profession in New York on the PR businesses Edelman Worldwide and GCI Group

Berger declined to remark. Amazon confirmed the inner announcement about Berger’s hiring.