Lionsgate has promoted two executives, Adam Frank and Jill Anderson, to steer its transactional residence leisure enterprise.

The transfer comes amid a robust interval for Lionsgate’s residence leisure enterprise — which contains digital sell-through (download-to-own), video-on-demand and bodily media — with an business market share of 11.9% within the first six months of the yr. It’s the best sixth-month share within the studio’s historical past, pushed by new releases “John Wick: Chapter Four,” “Plane” and “Sisu,” in addition to library titles “Knives Out,” “Django Unchained,” “Dirty Dancing” and “Sicario.”

Frank, a 12-year veteran of Lionsgate, has been elevated to govt VP of worldwide accomplice administration of gross sales and distribution. He’ll be overseeing the corporate’s world transactional digital and packaged media operations and heading up gross sales, licensing and strategic planning initiatives for the house leisure group. Frank has overseen the digital residence leisure rollouts of “The Hunger Games,” “John Wick,” “Saw,” “Expendables” and “Now You See Me” franchises, in addition to TV sequence like “Mad Men.” Prior to his promotion, he served as senior VP of the studio’s worldwide transactional EST and VOD enterprise. He continues to report back to Lionsgate Motion Picture Group president of worldwide licensing and distribution Ron Schwartz.

Anderson, who simply celebrated her 20-year anniversary with Lionsgate, has been promoted to go of residence leisure gross sales and accomplice administration. In her new function, she is going to spearhead the digital residence leisure and packaged media gross sales groups and report back to Frank. Her expanded obligations embrace digital residence leisure gross sales of Lionsgate’s library and portfolio of manufacturers along with her ongoing obligations for overseeing packaged media gross sales. She beforehand served as senior VP of residence leisure sell-through gross sales.

During her tenure, Anderson has led Lionsgate’s packaged media residence leisure enterprise for the corporate’s largest retail accounts, managing the packaged media releases of all main franchise and tentpole titles together with Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker,” James Cameron’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” and Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran.”

“Our transactional home entertainment business continues to thrive due to our team’s ability to create bespoke windowing strategies for our theatrical releases and library titles and over-convert across their PVOD, transactional EST, VOD and packaged media windows,” mentioned Schwartz. “Adam and Jill are extraordinarily talented “homegrown” Lionsgate executives who’re driving our transactional enterprise to one among its strongest performances lately. With their sturdy relationships, business experience and enterprise acumen, they may assist lead its continued progress whereas capitalizing on new alternatives shifting ahead.”