Disney, Imax Vet Jason Brenek Named Fathom CEO
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- Fathom Entertainment named Jason Brenek as CEO, succeeding the retiring Ray Nutt, with the appointment announced by Regal Chief Commercial Officer Adam Rymer on behalf of Fathom's board.
- Fathom's founders and co-owners — AMC, Regal, and Cinemark — collectively control 19,000 movie screens in the U.S., and the company is evolving from its Fathom Events roots into a full-service specialty theatrical distributor.
- Fathom will handle the wide theatrical release of Laika's stop-motion animated feature Wildwood on October 23, its first major wide release under the expanded distribution model.
- Brenek most recently founded and ran MetaMedia, a cloud-based content delivery platform acquired by Qube Cinema in 2025 that served more than 600 cinemas across 30 exhibition chains, with clients including Garth Brooks, Coldplay, Metallica, ESPN, NCAA, and esports from Activision Blizzard and Epic Games.
- Brenek previously served as EVP at Imax and president of Imax Home, and spent more than a decade at Disney rising to SVP of worldwide digital cinema and cinema programming.
Why it matters: Fathom is owned by the three largest U.S. theater circuits controlling 19,000 screens and is pivoting from event cinema into full-scale theatrical distribution — a transition now entrusted to a CEO whose career spans Disney's digital cinema arm, Imax, and a cloud-delivery platform acquired by Qube Cinema in 2025, just as Fathom prepares its first wide release (Laika's Wildwood) on October 23.
