Imax CEO Richard Gelfond’s Pay Dropped to $8 Million in 2022
thewrap.comthrough 2025. He was given $1.25 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation as opposed to $1.9 million in 2021. The April 14 SEC filing noted that Megan Colligan, who will soon step down as president of Imax Entertainment, earned $3.47 million in 2022 versus $4 million in 2022.
Natasha Fernandes, who became Imax CFO last May, earned $1.22 million in her first year with the company. While the COVID pandemic impacted the entire theatrical industry worldwide, Imax was and remains in a unique position to weather the storm.
They were beneficiaries when China began playing Imax-friendly new releases like “The Eight Hundred” in the summer of 2020. An overall slow-roll return to the multiplexes in 2021 benefited the kind of big-budget tentpoles like “Godzilla Vs.
Kong,” “F9,” “No Time to Die” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” that are tailor-made for Imax and related PLF auditoriums. As Gelfond noted during the 2021 Cinemacon presentation, shorter theatrical windows may play to Imax’s benefit, as studios will be more focused on event-izing their tentpole releases with the goal of making more money that much faster.
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