Craig Baumgarten Joins Vault Entertainment As Manager/Producer

EXCLUSIVE: Vault Entertainment has added business veteran Craig Baumgarten as a supervisor/producer.

The transfer reunites Baumgarten and Vault founder, Adam Griffin, who beforehand labored collectively. Baumgarten most lately was a associate at administration/manufacturing firm Surprise Road.

Baumgarten beforehand served as VP of Paramount Photos, President of Keith Barish Productions, EVP of Manufacturing at Columbia, President of Lorimar Movement Photos, and EVP of Twentieth Century Fox.  After leaving Fox, Baumgarten produced a number of movies together with Disney’s Clean Verify, It May Occur to You starring Nicolas Cage and Hook, directed by Steven Spielberg.  As a senior govt, Baumgarten oversaw manufacturing of many profitable movies through the years, together with Sophie’s Alternative, Ghostbusters and Die Exhausting.

Baumgarten, in partnership with Clay Epstein of Movie Mode Leisure, most lately produced Diablo for Grindstone alongside consumer Scott Adkins, who additionally stars within the film. Final yr, Baumgarten produced Samuel Goldwyn Movies’ Bother Man! that includes consumer Michael Jai White, who wrote, directed, and starred. He additionally lately produced Needed Man, that includes consumer Dolph Lundgren, which was launched earlier this yr. Baumgarten additionally produced the Common Soldier franchise, that includes Jean-Claude Van Damme alongside shoppers Adkins, Lundgren and White.

Moreover Baumgarten produces, together with consumer Alison Sweeney, Hallmark Channel’s A Hannah Swensen Thriller TV film franchise, wherein Sweeney additionally stars.

“I really feel like I’m simply getting began,” Baumgarten stated. “Attending to work once more with Adam and the workforce of managers at Vault is actually thrilling.”

Launched by Griffin in 2019, Vault Leisure has seen development, lately selling Tori Robertson to supervisor and hiring longtime expertise agent Justin Baxter from A3 Artists Company on the prime of final yr.  The administration/manufacturing firm expanded its workplace footprint, shifting from Beverly Hills to its personal constructing, now positioned close to Sony Photos.