Sam Register Leaving As Warner Bros. Animation President
Deadline • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Sam Register, President of Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, is leaving the company after over 30 years, as announced internally by Warner Bros. Television Group CEO Channing Dungey.
- Register and the studio mutually agreed not to renew his contract, with a search for his replacement underway amid Warner Bros Discovery's pending acquisition by Paramount, which also has an animation division.
- In the interim, Matt Matzkin will lead Business Operations, while current creative heads will continue overseeing their departments, maintaining stability during the transition.
- Register joined Warner Bros. Animation in 2007, became president in 2014, and has witnessed the studio's contraction due to shifts in cable and streaming strategies away from kids and family programming.
- Register expressed gratitude for his time at Warner Bros. and is looking forward to new opportunities, marking the end of a significant era for the animation division.
