Walt Disney Studios has hired former Warner Bros. executive Andrew Cripps as head of theatrical distribution. He replaces Tony Chambers, who was recently named president of the Walt Disney Company ...

Cripps had been at Warner Bros. as President of International Theatrical Distribution since September 2019, where he rallied the studio to their biggest grossing global hit ever in Barbie ($1.44B).

Josh Goldstine, the Warner Bros. marketing chief who spearheaded the "Barbie" promotional campaign heard 'round the world, is stepping down.

Cripps is a veteran distribution executive, who previously worked at 20th Century Fox and Paramount. He also worked at United International Pictures and Imax. For Disney, he will be responsible ...

Cripps joined Warner Bros. in 2019 from 20th Century Fox after the latter’s acquisition by Disney.

But to Americans the Cripps mission was the most prominent feature of Cripps’s career, and his conduct of it is still debated. Hottest debate has run recently in the Nation.