{"id":2224650,"date":"2026-01-06T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2224650"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:38:19","slug":"erik-ellner-named-warner-bros-motion-picture-group-head-of-business-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/erik-ellner-named-warner-bros-motion-picture-group-head-of-business-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Ellner Named Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group Head of Business Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Erik Ellner<\/a> has been named head of business affairs at Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Group, with the former MGM<\/a> executive moving up to take the position recently vacated by Steve Spira<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Studio co-chairs Michael De Luca<\/a> and Pamela Abdy<\/a>, under whom Ellner formerly worked at MGM, made the announcement Tuesday in an email to staff. Spira<\/a> exited his post as President of Business Affairs late last year; Ellner boarded Warner Bros.<\/a>\u2019 business affairs team under Spira in 2023.<\/p>\n

The email announcing the promotion is below:<\/p>\n

Team Motion Picture Group<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Happy New Year! As we embark on a new year, we wanted to share some important changes to our Business Affairs operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erik Ellner has been named head of business affairs at Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Group, with the former MGM executive moving up to take the position recently vacated by Steve Spira. Studio co-chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, under whom Ellner formerly worked at MGM, made the announcement Tuesday in an email to staff. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2224651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2224650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Erik-Ellner-Named-Warner-Bros-Motion-Picture-Group-Head-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224652,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224650\/revisions\/2224652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}