26 rising stars of the entertainment business at Netflix, Amazon, more

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Rising stars of the entertainment business: Meet 26 standout creative execs at companies like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon, and more

the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by author Kevin Kwan, which was directed for the screen by Jon Chu.

"We are casting all of the movies, we cast some of our TV projects, and then we also function as executives overseeing the projects that we don't cast on the television side," Domeier Lindo said."For the first five or seven years of doing this, we really were the only department that functioned in this way.

With input from GLAAD, he also helped remove a movie's plot twist that was deemed anti-trans, working with the director to finesse the storyline without losing its impact. In addition to writing the newsletter, Cramer is also a producer at Sony's Columbia Pictures, where he's had a movie deal in place since 2021. The focus of the deal is to get the"the next generation of funny voices" in front of big audiences, he told Insider. For someone who was an executive assistant at the entertainment firm Madison Wells Media just three years ago, it's been a meteoric rise in Hollywood.

Cramer recalled being at a breakfast meeting when a Columbia Pictures exec called to tell him the studio was interested in buying and developing a new film project from two filmmakers he'd featured in a recent edition of the newsletter. He left the breakfast and sprinted home to help get the deal closed,"making calls along the way," he said.

Growing up in Atlanta as the youngest of three kids, Greenwald attributes his success to the diplomatic skills he developed at a young age."I grew up with a family of very loud people, very strong people, and I was always the person people came to with any disagreement," he said."I tend to be the one who listens."

As the vice president of social and digital at Lucasfilm, the studio that most famously gave birth to the Star Wars universe, Helmer, 32, spends much of her time deep in thought about how to promote a galaxy far, far away. Her team consists of roughly 20 people — whom Helmer dubbed"super fans" — in addition to freelancers.

 

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