The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
Hitched, Hatched, Hired
Inside the industry’s celebrations and news
Weddings
Little Miss Sunshine actress Abigail
Breslin married Ira Kunyansky on Jan. 28 after getting engaged in February 2022.
Births
Kia Brooks, deputy director of The Gotham Film and Media Institute, and Nick Brooks, senior footwear designer at Design Brands Inc., welcomed Grace Azalia Brooks on
Jan. 23.
Congrats
Michele Imperato Stabile was named president of worldwide physical production at Warner Bros. Pictures on March 10.
Former Twitter exec Sarah Rosen joined Reddit as senior director of content partnerships March 13.
Jenna Santoianni
was tapped as MRC’s president of television March 7.
Sonia Coleman was named senior executive vp and chief human resources officer of The Walt Disney Co., effective April 8.
Claudia Russo was hired as senior vp corporate communications at UTA on March 8.
Producer Gail Berman and Reddit COO Jen Wong joined the Imax board of directors March 6.
Kelli Buchanan was tapped as vp nonfiction for Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media on March 6.
Jen Hollingsworth
was appointed chief commercial officer of generative
AI entertainment tech firm Flawless on March 8.
Caitlin S. DiMotta was named co-head of the entertainment practice at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams and Sheppard on March 8.
Stephen Macias
was promoted to head of inclusive diversity worldwide for the Interpublic Group-owned Octagon Sports and Entertainment Network on March 8.
Former Amazon and Stitch Fix exec Dan Jedda was named CFO of Roku, effective May 1.
Bruce Vaughn
returned to co-lead Walt Disney Imagineering as chief creative officer, effective March 20.
Deaths
Robert Blake, who played a crazed real-life killer in Truman Copote’s In Cold Blood and the popular TV cop Tony Baretta before he was tried, and acquitted, of murdering his wife in 2001, died March 9 of heart disease in Los Angeles. He was 89.
Rick Scheckman,
who served as David Letterman’s film coordinator for more than 30 years while also finding his way on camera for wacky comedy bits, died March 10 in New York. He was 67.
Rolly Crump, the Walt Disney Imagineer who helped design
It’s a Small World, the Enchanted
Tiki Room and The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, died March 12 in Carlsbad, California. He was 93.
Kristin Bjorklund,a
producer on Family Feud for more than 40 years, died
March 5 of sepsis in Phoenix after undergoing a kidney transplant. She was 67.
Pearry Reginald Teo,
who wrote and directed The Gene Generation, starring Bai Ling, died March 9 of an unknown cause in North Hollywood. He was 44.
Peter Kelley,a
Broadway actor and singer who spent nearly two decades as an agent at William Morris, died Feb. 28 of natural causes in Suffolk, Virginia. He was 97.