AMC Theatres Promotes Ellen Copaken to Head of Marketing
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter AMC Theatres has promoted Ellen Copaken to lead its marketing department. As senior VP of marketing, effective immediately, she will report to AMC’s chairman and CEO Adam Aron and will join the company’s executive committee.
She’s taking over for Eliot Hamlisch, who recently departed the company. He had been commuting across the country to AMC’s Theatre Support Center in Leawood, Kansas from his residence in northern New Jersey.
For personal reasons, Hamlisch was unable to relocate permanently, according to a statement from AMC. Copaken joined AMC in February 2022 as VP of growth strategy.
Her first initiative was launching a line of microwave, ready-to-eat popcorn, which is now sold in more than 2,600 Walmarts in the U.S.
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