Annapurna President Nathan Gary Exits (Exclusive)

Nathan Gary is stepping down because the president of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna, a publish he has held since 2021, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered. Gary will even be departing the corporate.

The co-heads of Annapurna’s indie gaming division, Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella, are additionally departing.

Hector Sanchez lately rejoined Annapurna from Epic Video games and was named the corporate’s president of interactive and new media. (Sanchez helped launch Annapurna Interactive in 2016.) He’ll oversee the corporate’s indie gaming efforts as Annapurna can also be trying to broaden into AAA, or large-budget, video games.

Below Ellison and her senior management, the corporate will combine its in-house gaming operations with the remainder of Annapurna’s divisions, which embody movie, TV and theater.

Gary was elevated to president following his time as chief of interactive, co-founding the corporate’s gaming division. Up to now couple of years, Annapurna has ascended within the indie gaming house, producing award-winning indie video games like What Stays of Edith Finch and Stray, the latter of which bought multimillion items in its first month of launch and received the gaming world equal of an Oscar in 2022.

Annapurna, which confronted well-reported monetary difficulties in 2019 and 2020, will quickly debut Marielle Heller’s anticipated horror comedy Nightbitch, starring Amy Adams, on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition. Annapurna lately launched Netflix’s Nimona, the Oscar-nominated animated characteristic, and the animated TV sequence Sausage Celebration: Foodtopia with Amazon. In theater, the corporate was behind the Sarah Paulson’s Tony successful play Acceptable and the upcoming West Finish staging of play Pricey England about soccer supervisor Gareth Southgate.