Warner Bros., signaling stepped-up activity overseas, names Camela Galano to new international post

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Signaling the growing role that overseas markets are playing on Hollywood, Warner Bros. has named former longtime New Line International executive Camela Galano to the newly created post of president of Warner Bros. International Film Acquisitions. In her new job, Galano will focus on acquiring rights to English-language movies that will be released solely outside the U.S.

In recent years most of the studios have been stepping up their activities in overseas film releasing, where box-office revenues are growing at a faster pace than that of the saturated domestic market.

Galano, who worked as a top international sales and marketing executive at New Line for 22 years, said she would head a newly formed five-person division of her former New Line colleagues. New Line was previously consolidated into Warner Bros., and the division’s activities scaled back.

‘We’re looking for mainstream movies to complement the Warner Bros. slate and the local productions it releases overseas,’ said Galano, who has been informally doing the job for the last few months. During that period, she has picked up rights to ‘Paranormal Activity’ for Russia and Spain; ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ for Spain; and ‘Edge of Darkness,’ with Mel Gibson, for Spain and Latin America.

Galano said she is ‘open to any kind of genre and budget sizes.’

At New Line, which Warner Bros. parent Time Warner Inc. downsized dramatically two years ago, Galano oversaw the international release of such blockbusters as the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, ‘Austin Powers,’ ‘Rush Hour’ and ‘Wedding Crashers.’

-- Claudia Eller