Reese Witherspoon’s Good day Sunshine is launching a brilliant new division: music.
The media firm behind Amazon’s Prime Video musical drama Daisy Jones & the Six and the Apple TV+ music competitors collection My Form of Nation has named Alex Flores as govt vice chairman, music.
Flores, who held senior roles at Broadcast Music, Inc. and BMG, will construct and oversee Good day Sunshine’s growth into music and spearhead strategic initiatives within the music area. She’s going to report back to Good day Sunshine COO Liz Jenkins.
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“Alex is an absolute drive within the music business and we’re so excited to have her lead Good day Sunshine’s efforts within the area,” Jenkins mentioned in a press release. “The depth and breadth of her expertise make her uniquely suited to construct the enterprise alongside our Content material and Direct-to-Client groups.”
Good day Sunshine, part of Candle Media, has been behind numerous hit motion pictures and TV collection, together with The Morning Present, Your Place or Mine, From Scratch, One thing from Tiffany’s, Little Fires All over the place, The place the Crawdads Sing, Fact Be Informed and extra.
Within the music area, the corporate produced Daisy Jones and the Six, which stars Riley Keough and Sam Claflin and have become a success when it was launched final month. The album from the present, Aurora, is at present No. 7 on the Billboard Prime Rock Albums chart. Witherspoon, alongside Grammy-winning nation singer Kacey Musgraves, govt produced and is featured in My Form of Nation, a collection the place nation singers Jimmie Allen, Mickey Guyton and Orville Peck seek for the style’s subsequent massive star.
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And Good day Sunshine can even produce the Wynonna Judd documentary, Wyonna Judd: Between and Hallelujah, which premieres April 26 on Paramount+. The movie will observe the nation singer’s life after coping with the latest loss of life of her mom, nation music star Naomi Judd.
“I’m so grateful to have the chance to affix a beloved media firm that’s actually dedicated to its essential mission of amplifying ladies,” Flores mentioned in a press release. “I look ahead to working with Liz and all the crew to construct on the unimaginable success of Good day Sunshine and dive deeper into this area.”
Flores served as senior vp, artistic worldwide at BMI, the place she signed and prolonged key expertise together with Nicholas Britell, Atticus Ross, Alan Menken, Danny Elfman, Linda Perry, Thomas Barnes, J. Balvin, Karol G, Rauw Alejandro, Rosalía and Elena Rose. She held varied positions at BMG together with senior vp, advertising, North America. There she managed the day-to-day operations of the U.S. synch advertising groups whereas persevering with to safe placements for BMG’s repertoire throughout all media platforms. She joined BMG in 2012 as a director, advertising, movie & tv, the place she was liable for inserting music in movies, TV reveals and soundtracks. Her key placements included music from Nirvana, Yusuf, Willie Dixon, Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Tame Impala, Soundgarden, Aerosmith, Karen O and extra.
