Josh Kramer, who produced Roman Polanski’s Loss of life and the Maiden and Sidney Lumet’s Evening Falls on Manhattan and later led gross sales for Capitol Movies earlier than turning into Head of Movement Image Enterprise Operations at Amazon Studios, has died. He was 67.
Kramer died November 27 in Santa Monica.
Born on Might 17, 1956, e started his showbiz profession working for the Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis, pre-selling overseas film rights that might assist finance movies together with Manhunter, Blue Velvet and others. Kramer was instrumental within the success of the 1991 live performance pic Madonna: Fact or Dare, main the acquisition of the movie rights after which promoting the movie abroad.
Within the early Nineties, he teamed with Thom Mount to kind the Mount/Kramer Firm, which produced Loss of life and the Maiden (1994) and Evening Falls on Manhattan (1996).
He went on to develop into the pinnacle of gross sales for Capitol Movies, later becoming a member of worldwide acquisitions at MGM. In 2005, he started his profession at Amazon as the primary licensing government of Amazon Unbox. There he established the corporate’s relationships with main Hollywood studios and TV networks to construct a complete choice for Amazon’s new video platform. He and his crew additionally had been accountable for the enlargement of Amazon Video by offers with TiVo, Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Vizio, Roku and others.
He headed Movement Image Enterprise Operations at Amazon Studios from 2014-18, taking part in a pivotal position within the studio’s early success. He wrote the unique marketing strategy for Amazon Studios’ film division and devised distribution methods that launched the studio’s early movie tasks together with Chi-Raq, The Massive Sick and Greatest Image Oscar nominees Manchester by the Sea.
After leaving Amazon Studios, Josh based the blockchain service BKopy.io, in 2021 and served the managing companion of Resonance Content material.
Past his work, Kramer additionally was an achieved classical pianist and revealed brief fiction.
Kramer is survived by his spouse, Kathie; their son, Jack; a brother, Ken (sister-in-law Dee Dee); and quite a few cousins, nieces and nephews. A memorial was held December 17.
