EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell me that Warner Bros. International Marketing EVP Julien Noble leaves the studio and is in talks for a similar role at Universal.
I understand that Noble announced his retirement to his Warner Bros. global marketing team yesterday and that he will be leaving Warners in mid-February.
Noble has apparently been negotiating his retirement since the end of last year, and I’m told that it’s not related to today’s news, which broke the deadline, of former Uni Global Marketing boss Josh Goldstine acting as Warner Bros. ‘s President of Worldwide Marketing has not been appointed.
Noble’s record at Warners includes the international marketing campaigns for Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984, the highest earnings with the R rating of all time, the $ 1 billion plus Grapmaker; This: Chapter 2, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Shazam.
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Uni has been looking for a president of international marketing since it was announced in October that Simon Hewlett was planning to leave the studio. Hewlett is based in London and Uni wanted to integrate its global marketing and distribution options in Los Angeles.
Noble arrived at Warners in January 2019 and reported to then-marketing boss Blair Rich. Prior to Warner Bros., Noble worked at 20th Century Fox, where he was EVP, Worldwide Digital, and worked on award-winning campaigns for the Dead pool and X mans franchises as well as The Greatest Showman, Logan and eventual 4 Oscar winner Bohemian Rhapsody. Noble also previously served as Fox’s SVP of Digital, International. Previously, he spent seven years at Walt Disney Studios in the United Kingdom and the United States in a variety of roles, most recently as VP, Global Digital and Publicity, where he worked on titles such as The Avengers releases and Frozen. Noble has his teeth cut in the entertainment in France which works at 20de Century Fox as a new media executive. He is multilingual and holds degrees from the INSEEC School of Communication (known as Sup de Pub in France) and Pigier, Aix and Provence.