Andrew Carben, CEO and founder of the Independent Film Distribution Company, Plaker Street Media, died on Monday from the brilliance tumor, a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer. It was 59.
Karpet founded Bleecker Street Street, based in New York City in 2014, with the support of the Energy Founder for 5 hours Manoj BHARGAVA. In the first few years, Bleecker Street released films like “Trump” 2015, starring Brian Cranston and Helen Mirin, and “Captain Viggo Mortensen” led by Viggo Mortensen in 2016.
Since its foundation, Bleecker Street has released more than 75 films, including the 2017 “Logan Lucky” comedy, “Golda Golda” for the year 2024 “Golda”, and the “Hard Facts”, and recently, “The Wedding Manquet”, which is a rehabilitation of a movie from a movie Ang Lee Romination Comedy Bowen Yang and Kelly Tran 1993.
“Our industry has lost a giant,” Kent Sanderson, president of Buckker Street, Carben’s friend for a long time, said in a statement. “Andrew has taught all of us a lot, and everything that is the value of kindness, honesty and family above all. His leadership and courage will be inspired by all of us on the rest of our lives, and we are committed to continuing his passion and heritage in calling for the cinema.”
Karpen started his career in Miramax before moving to Oxygen Media as a great deputy head of finance and planning. Then he spent more than a decade in Focus’s features, a film arm of NBCunivesal, starting with the chief operational official responsible for financing, strategic planning and operations before height to the president and then the co -chief co -executive.
He left Focus’s features in 2013, after Universal Pictures appointed a new head of specialization and moved its headquarters from New York to Lot Lot Studio in California. Universal said at that time The company asked Carbin to stay with the studio, but he chose to stay in New York with his family.
He survived his wife Pam. Josh and Zak’s sons; The daughter of Sloan and the wife of Josh, Christine, who expects her first child.
