Fathom Entertainment has announced the appointment of Jason Brenek as its new chief executive officer. Brenek, a seasoned global entertainment and technology executive with an entrepreneurial background and a career spanning a wide array of leadership roles, including senior positions at The Walt Disney Company, IMAX Corporation, and MetaMedia, will become Fathom’s new CEO following the previously announced retirement of Ray Nutt. The company’s upcoming wide theatrical release of Wildwood, LAIKA’s new stop-motion feature film opening in theaters nationwide this October 23.
Brenek brings more than two decades of senior executive experience across theatrical marketing and distribution, cinema technology, and global content production and releasing strategy. Most recently, he served as founder and chief executive officer of MetaMedia, the world’s first global cloud-based platform for delivering movies, live events, and premium content to cinemas at scale, including Garth Brooks, Coldplay, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Blake Shelton, live sports from ESPN, NCAA , WWE, UFC, and esports from Activision Blizzard and Epic Games. Under his leadership, MetaMedia pioneered real-time, cloud-based content delivery to more than 600 cinemas across 30 leading chains worldwide before its successful acquisition by Qube Cinema in 2025.
Before founding MetaMedia, Brenek served as executive vice president of IMAX corporation and president of IMAX HOME, leading global product and technology platform launches designed to extend the IMAX experience beyond the cinema. Prior to IMAX, he spent more than a decade in various senior leadership roles at the Walt Disney Company, including senior vice president of worldwide digital cinema and cinema programming. Brenek was responsible for setting and executing Disney’s global cinema strategy, overseeing the global transition from analog to digital cinema as chairman of digital cinema initiatives and by negotiating digital cinema financing and deployment deals, and leading Disney’s digital cinema operations team.
While at Disney, Brenek also oversaw the company’s 3D and event cinema production and programming, which included co-producing two Disney feature films and pioneering live ESPN, NBA, and NCAA sporting events for cinemas. In 2025, Brenek was presented with the International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society’s first-ever founders award. While serving as Disney’s senior vice president of international in-home, Brenek oversaw a multi-billion-dollar division leading groundbreaking home streaming and television distribution partnerships in more than 70 countries.
Speaking on behalf of the Fathom Entertainment Board of Directors, comprised of senior executives from Fathom’s founding owners including AMC, Regal, and Cinemark, “Jason is the right leader to build on Fathom’s remarkable foundation of success in theatrical distribution and take the company into its next era of growth,” said Adam Rymer, chief commercial officer at Regal Global Entertainment. “Jason’s expertise across theatrical distribution, content and event cinema production and marketing, and technology, combined with a history of working with Fathom and a deep understanding and appreciation of the company, made him the clear choice. We are grateful to Ray Nutt for the extraordinary legacy he leaves behind and thrilled to see what Jason and the incredible team at Fathom will build from here.”
“There are very few companies in this industry that genuinely expand what the moviegoing experience can be. Fathom created the category of “event cinema,” and I have admired what this team has built for well over a decade. Having had the opportunity to work with Fathom at different points in my career, I have seen firsthand the care and creativity this organization brings to content producers, cinema partners, and millions of consumers,” said Brenek. “Under Ray’s leadership, Fathom has grown into something truly special during this period of radical change in the broader business of entertainment – a company with a devoted audience, a distinct identity, and a real and expanding role in the theatrical landscape.”
Brenek continued, “My focus will be on expanding and elevating the content we bring to the big screen, deepening the relationships we have with our exhibitor and content partners, and growing Fathom’s reach and relevance in ways that deliver communal experiences to audiences and grow the broader entertainment ecosystem. I could not be more pleased to lead this company into its next chapter.”
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