EXCLUSIVE: Christine Otal has been named Senior Vice President, Production & Development at Macro Film Studios, the company’s President James Lopez has announced.
Otal joins from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, where she served as Senior Vice President of Film. During her time there, she worked on titles including Star Trek IV, a live-action remake of acclaimed anime Your Name at Paramount, Jason Bateman’s The Pinkerton at Warner Bros, an adaptation of Melissa Fleming’s book A Hope More Powerful than the Sea with Paramount and Amblin, and an adaptation of the video game Portal.
The L.A.-based executive previously served as Vice President of Development and Production at Millennium Films, there exec producing The Hitman’s Bodyguard starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, London Has Fallen starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman, Hunter Killer starring Butler and Gary Oldman, and Criminal starring Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones. She additionally served as co-EP on the Antoine Fuqua-helmed Olympus Has Fallen, seeing all of the above collectively cross over $630M worldwide.
Prior to her time at Millennium, Otal worked at independent financier The Film Department, as well as in the Motion Picture and TV Lit departments at UTA.
Macro Film Studios is a division of Macro, the multi-platform media company founded in 2015 by CEO Charles D. King, which spotlights the voice and perspectives of Black people, indigenous people and people of color. Boasting a multi-year first look deal with Amazon Studios, the company most recently saw the release of its Grammy-nominated Netflix pic They Cloned Tyrone. It has co-financed acclaimed titles including Judas and the Black Messiah, Mudbound, Fences, Roman J. Israel, Esq., Just Mercy, Sorry to Bother You, Nine Days, Farewell Amor, Blast Beat, The Land and Blue Bayou.