Packer, Jim

Packer, Jim

President of Worldwide Television Distribution at Lionsgate

Jim Packer is a 12-year veteran of Lionsgate and a member of the studio’s leadership team. As President of Worldwide Television Distribution, he directs the Company’s strategies for capitalizing on evolving distribution and licensing opportunities in a fast-changing global marketplace. 

He oversees the distribution, licensing and marketing of Lionsgate’s 40 to 50 feature films annually, best-in-class television slate, deep roster of STARZ original programming and 18,000-title film and television library to hundreds of broadcast, cable, SVOD, AVOD and FAST platforms worldwide.

Under Packer’s leadership, Lionsgate achieved record annual library revenue of $845 million this year, an increase of more than 50% over the past four years. He spearheaded the studio’s efforts to grow its billion-dollar global distribution business with licensing deals for the highly-anticipated John Wick TV origin story The Continental at Peacock and Amazon, the hit comedy Ghosts at Paramount+ and the award-winning Schitt’s Creek at Hulu, among many others. Lionsgate also continued to roll out its theatrical output strategy by complementing its Pay One deal at STARZ with theatrical output agreements for the Pay Two window at Roku and Peacock and an output agreement for multiplatform titles at Tubi. 

Before joining Lionsgate in 2011, Packer served as President of MGM’s worldwide television and digital operations. Prior to that, he was an executive with The Walt Disney Company managing the distribution and syndication of Disney content. 

A graduate of the University of Colorado, Packer has served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Colorado Foundation and the Leeds School of Business. He also previously served on the Boards of the multiplatform channel Epix, NATPE, The Paley Center for Media and Movie Network in Australia. Packer was the recipient of Broadcasting & Cable’s Digital Leader Award and was inducted into Variety’s Home Entertainment & Digital Hall of Fame, recognizing his achievements in content and technology. He also earned MIPTV’s prestigious Medaille d’Honneur at MIPCOM.

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