MetaMedia’s revolutionary cloud-based MetaMedia Entertainment Network ™ continues to flawlessly deliver content to cinemas, drive-ins, and other out-of-home venues

August 10, 2021

With movie theaters reopening across the country and movie lovers rushing back to the big screen, MetaMedia, one of the world’s fastest-growing entertainment technology companies, is well-positioned to meet resurgent demand. An innovative and industry-leading company, MetaMedia’s cloud-based technology delivers live and recorded content to cinemas, drive-ins and other out-of-home venues and ensures the rapid, secure and cost-effective delivery of movies, live-streamed events, trailers and other big-screen content.

Over the last two years, MetaMedia secured partnerships with several well-known North American cinema chains, such as Cinemark USA, Inc. (the third largest exhibitor in the US and fourth largest globally), Cinépolis USA Movie Theaters and Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas (the largest cinema chain in Mexico and fifth largest exhibitor globally), Landmark Cinemas of Canada (the second largest motion picture theatre exhibition company in Canada), Emagine Entertainment (the first chain in the world to convert to 100 percent digital projection), and the Independent Cinema Alliance (an association of 140 member-independent cinemas operating approximately 400 cinemas and over 2,600 screens in the U.S. and Canada).

“Our technologies provide our partners with many of the economic, operational and programming benefits that the industry envisioned with the roll-out of digital cinema over a decade ago,” said MetaMedia CEO Jason Brenek.

In addition to partnerships with exhibitors, MetaMedia has delivered a wide variety of movies from multiple major Hollywood studios. MetaMedia has also initiated groundbreaking partnerships with content partners such as HarenaData (a gaming community aggregation company), MacGillivray Freeman Films (the world’s foremost independent producer and distributor of original giant-screen 70mm films), and EncoreLive (a company that serves as the connection point between artists, brands, and individuals to create unique concert experiences for fans).

Partnering with MetaMedia has allowed content providers to expand the reach of their offerings. Through the partnership with MetaMedia, Harena Data launched StudioGYO powered by MetaMedia, a platform to deliver e-sports content to the MetaMedia Entertainment Network™. Similarly, MetaMedia’s partnership with MacGillivray Freeman Films expands the reach of MacGillivray’s digital content, bringing educational films to conventional commercial cinemas and drive-ins for group and educational screenings. Likewise, MetaMedia’s partnership with Encore Live through Encore Drive-in-Nights allowed the flawless delivery of UFC events as well as concerts from artists including Florida Georgia Line and Bon Jovi. MetaMedia’s cloud-based technology has allowed each of these content partners to revolutionize the way they deliver content.

MetaMedia also recently announced that it expanded its cloud-based entertainment network in less than a year to more than 1,000 screens across the U.S. and Canada, which covers nearly all of the top 50 largest U.S. cities and makes it the largest cloud-based delivery network to venues across North America. Despite a global pandemic and periodic industry shutdowns, MetaMedia continues to be one of America’s fastest-growing entertainment technology companies. With more than 5,000 cinema screens in its backlog and a recent investment from Pixelogic, MetaMedia anticipates tripling its network size by the fourth quarter.

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Jason Brenek

Chief Executive Officer

Leveraging two decades of senior executive experience across multiple sectors of the film and entertainment industry, Jason Brenek assembled a group of powerful industry leaders with incomparable experience and relationships to forge the building blocks of MetaMedia. As Chief Executive Officer of MetaMedia, Brenek focuses intently on realizing the operational, economic and programming benefits of creating a next-generation distribution network, which are mutually-beneficial to content producers and cinemas around the world.

Prior to MetaMedia, Brenek was President of IMAX HOME at the IMAX Corporation, where he led business and engineering teams around the world to develop and launch multiple new products, technologies, and platforms. Before IMAX, Brenek spent over a decade in senior management roles at The Walt Disney Studios. While serving as Senior Vice President of International In-Home and Head of Global Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, Brenek established partnerships with global brands including Netflix, Google, Amazon, Apple. and Samsung to distribute Disney-owned content across new digital/OTT platforms, television, and retail. Brenek previously served as Disney's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Digital Cinema and Cinema Programming, overseeing the company's global transition from analog to digital cinema. Brenek also developed and co-produced two Disney feature films and multiple live sporting events in cinemas with ESPN. Brenek received his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

Danny C. Stein

Chairman

Danny Stein is a seasoned, growth-oriented media and technology executive with 30 years of operating and investment experience across media, technology, and consumer businesses. Stein has managed across the full life-cycle of deal origination, deal execution, business building and exit for small and mid- cap public, private and distressed companies. Stein is a digital media innovator having built a portfolio of businesses as CEO of Dimensional Associates 2003-2014, including as the Executive Chairman of the Orchard Enterprises, a global music and entertainment company, specializing in media distribution and 1091 Pictures, a digital and theatrical distribution company. From 2015-2016, Stein was the Senior Vice President, Growth Investments of MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings, Inc., a company that acquires and manages a diversified portfolio of public and private companies across various industry segments.  In that role, Stein’s focus was on building and investing in digital media and technology-enabled businesses. Through MacAndrews and Forbes, Stein also served as President of New Media and Corporate Development at Deluxe Entertainment (a wholly owned subsidiary of MacAndrews of Forbes), responsible for Corporate Development, M&A, Strategy, Digital Media and Innovation.

Chuck Goldwater

President, North America

For over two decades, Chuck Goldwater has served as a senior executive in the entertainment and cinema exhibition industry which has earned him incomparable industry-wide trust and respect. As President, North America for MetaMedia, Goldwater draws upon his broad understanding and deep connections to exhibitors and studios across the country to create a robust network of exhibitor and studio partnerships for MetaMedia. He also applies his knack and experience for building successful entertainment startups to MetaMedia's growing infrastructure and success.

Prior to MetaMedia, Goldwater was co-founder and CEO at cinema chain New Vision Theaters. Before that, Goldwater served as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Carmike Cinemas, which acquired Digiplex Destinations, a cinema chain where Goldwater served as Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors. At New Vision, Carmike, and Digiplex, Goldwater was an energetic and effective advocate for alternative programming and “event cinema” as a means of increasing seat utilization and creating incremental revenue for exhibitors. Before Digiplex, Goldwater was President of Cinedigm (formerly known as AccessIT), the company credited with deploying the first digital cinema infrastructure and electronic delivery network. Previously, Goldwater was selected by the then seven largest Hollywood studios to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Digital Cinema Initiatives (“DCI”), a joint venture that created the industry-wide specifications and the technical quality and security architecture for digital cinema systems. Goldwater was also inducted into the industry’s ShowEast Hall of Fame and is a Will Rogers/Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation Board Advisory Member.

Shaiwal “Shay” Priyadarshi

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

A dynamic inventor with over a dozen patents, Shaiwal "Shay" Priyadarshi is a trusted leader and mentor to high-performing tech teams, executives and business partners. For over 25 years, Priyadarshi has assembled and led front-end and back-end engineering teams, developed market-leading products and intellectual property that spans from embedded systems and data centers to leading cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud. As chief technology officer (CTO) for MetaMedia, Priyadarshi continues to maintain his exemplary track record of overseeing innovative products from concept to delivery.

Prior to MetaMedia, Priyadarshi was CTO of IMAX Home, where he developed the world's highest-quality, internet-delivered video playback system needed to support IMAX Corporation’s pioneering technologies. Before IMAX, he served as CTO of PRIMA Cinema where he led the research, development and approval processes of the world's first and only movie service that was authorized to distribute new Hollywood movies to private home theaters. And previous to PRIMA Cinema, he worked as director of engineering at DivX, where he led the development of new technologies that power many leading streaming services today. Priyadarshi received his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Electronics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.