Horberg exits Sidney Kimmel

August 05, 2008 The financing and producing entity has removed president of production Bill Horberg from his post and promoted senior marketing and distribution exec Bingham Ray to president of creative affairs, now SKE's top creative spot. The personnel moves come as part of what execs described as a shift in strategy toward thrillers, horror and broad comedy and away from the more prestige fare it has been known for since Horberg joined three years ago. Meanwhile, Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut "Synecdoche, New York," a $20 million project that had been one of the big hopes of this year's Festival de Cannes, attracted few bidders on the Croisette and wound up selling to Sony Pictures Classics several months after the festival.

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