Village Roadshow Entertainment has made a wave of additives and promotions with Nic Gordon being elevated to Vice President of Feature Film for Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP), and Anne MacKay is being named as a Creative Executive at VRP. Elizabeth Elliott joins VREG as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs. Gordon and MacKay will report back to Jillian Apfelbaum and Tristen Tuckfield, VRP’s Executive Vice Presidents of Feature Film. Elliot will report back to Louis Santor, COO, VREG.

“We are extremely pleased that VRP homegrown executives Nic and Anne continue to demonstrate the creative thinking and initiative that allows us to generate a diverse slate of feature films based both on our deep library as well as original IP. Their contributions to the department have been incredible and we will continue to greatly benefit from their work across all of our projects as we bring them to fruition,” stated Apfelbaum and Tuckfield.

Gordon beforehand supported VRP’s function slate as Director of Development, having joined the corporate in 2019. He not too long ago oversaw the manufacturing of Heathers: The Musical and was instrumental within the packaging and improvement of such VRP initiatives as Night of the Living Dead, offered in a aggressive scenario to MGM in December 2022; the remake of hit Russian horror SPUTNIK, produced by Matt Reeves; and an untitled comedy written by star comic Taylor Tomlinson and directed by Paul Weitz. He additionally runs Village Roadshow’s BloodList initiative, supervising their pipeline of style options from rising voices. Prior to VRP, Gordon was a Development Executive at Imperative Entertainment, working throughout movie and TV on initiatives together with Palme d’Or-winning movies The Square and Triangle Of Sadness, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moonand Mindy Kaling and Nisha Ganatra’s Late Night.

MacKay has been with VRP since January 2022. She joined the corporate from Yale Productions, the place she managed manufacturing and finance for a slate of titles, together with Alone Together, written and directed by Katie Holmes, John Malkovich-led titles Rogue Hostage and The Survivalist and As They Made Us, written and directed by Emmy nominee Mayim Balik, and starring Dustin Hoffman and Simon Helberg.

Elliott joins VREG after three years with Netflix, the place she served as Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs, overseeing improvement, manufacturing, and financing agreements for the corporate’s high-budget movie group, contributing to such titles as Don’t Look Up, Luther and Enola Holmes 2. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for Lionsgate, negotiating and drafting acquisition and co-financing agreements for the movie, residence leisure, and acquisitions departments, working with home and worldwide companions on movies together with Knives Out, The Long Shot and Bombshell.

Gordon, MacKay and Elliot will assist VRP’s slate of upcoming releases, which incorporates such titles as Cinnamon, starring Pam Grier and Damon Wayans, and Murder City starring Mike Colter — two titles arising from the corporate’s Black Noir Cinema initiative, launched in partnership with NBA legend Kevin Garnett’s Content Cartel, to supply scripted and unscripted initiatives conveying a spirit of empowerment for Black audiences.