EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell me that Julien Noble, vice president of international marketing at Warner Bros., is leaving the studio and negotiating a similar position at Universal.
I understand that Noble announced his departure for his Warner Bros. global marketing team. yesterday and that he will leave Warners in mid-February.
Noble has apparently been negotiating his departure since the end of last year, and I am told he is not connected to today’s news, released by Deadline, from former Uni Global marketing chief Josh Goldstine, being named president of global marketing for Warner Bros.
Noble’s background at Warners includes international marketing campaigns for Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984, the highest grossing film of all time, the more than $ 1 billion film Clown; It: Chapter 2, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Shazam.
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Uni has been looking for an international marketing president since it was announced in October that Simon Hewlett was planning to leave the studio. Hewlett is headquartered in London and Uni was looking to integrate its global marketing and distribution operations outside Los Angeles.
Noble joined Warners in January 2019, reporting to then head of marketing Blair Rich. Prior to Warner Bros, Noble worked at 20th Century Fox, where he was EVP, Worldwide Digital, working on award winning campaigns for the Dead Pool and X-Men franchises as well as The greatest showman, Logan and the winner of the 4th Oscar Bohemian rhapsody. Noble also previously served as senior vice president of Digital, Fox International. Previously, he spent seven years at Walt Disney Studios in the UK and the USA in a variety of roles, most recently as VP, Global Digital and Publicity, where he worked. in titles like The Avengers launches and Frozen. Noble started working in entertainment in France at age 20º Century Fox as a new media executive. He is multilingual and graduated from the School of Communication INSEEC (known as Sup de Pub in France) and Pigier, Aix en Provence.