Vault Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Vault Entertainment has added trade veteran Craig Baumgarten as a supervisor/producer.

The transfer reunites Baumgarten and Vault founder, Adam Griffin, who beforehand labored collectively. Baumgarten most not too long ago was a companion at administration/manufacturing firm Wonder Street.

Baumgarten beforehand served as VP of Paramount Pictures, President of Keith Barish Productions, EVP of Production at Columbia, President of Lorimar Motion Pictures, and EVP of Twentieth Century Fox.  After leaving Fox, Baumgarten produced a number of movies together with Disney’s Blank Check, It Could Happen to You starring Nicolas Cage and Hook, directed by Steven Spielberg.  As a senior government, Baumgarten oversaw manufacturing of many profitable movies over time, together with Sophie’s Choice, Ghostbusters and Die Hard.

Baumgarten, in partnership with Clay Epstein of Film Mode Entertainment, most not too long ago produced Diablo for Grindstone alongside consumer Scott Adkins, who additionally stars within the film. Last yr, Baumgarten produced Samuel Goldwyn Films’ Trouble Man! that includes consumer Michael Jai White, who wrote, directed, and starred. He additionally not too long ago produced Wanted Man, that includes consumer Dolph Lundgren, which was launched earlier this yr. Baumgarten additionally produced the Universal Soldier franchise, that includes Jean-Claude Van Damme alongside shoppers Adkins, Lundgren and White.

Additionally Baumgarten produces, together with consumer Alison Sweeney, Hallmark Channel’s A Hannah Swensen Mystery TV film franchise, by which Sweeney additionally stars.

“I feel like I am just getting started,” Baumgarten stated. “Getting to work again with Adam and the team of managers at Vault is really exciting.”

Launched by Griffin in 2019, Vault Entertainment has seen progress, not too long ago selling Tori Robertson to supervisor and hiring longtime expertise agent Justin Baxter from A3 Artists Agency on the high of final yr.  The administration/manufacturing firm expanded its workplace footprint, transferring from Beverly Hills to its personal constructing, now situated close to Sony Pictures.