He was a film buyer before working with indie stalwart Bob Berney at Newmarket, Picturehouse, Apparition and FilmDistrict.
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Thompson also was senior vp distribution and exhibition at Cohen Media Group for seven years before retiring in 2020. He taught a class in film distribution at NYU’s School of Continuing Education for 17 years. Born on Aug. 30, 1949, in Gowanda, New York, and raised in Cattaraugus, New York, Thompson graduated from American University in 1971. After starting with Twentieth Century Fox at its Washington branch, he came to New York in 1978 to work for Don Rugoff at Cinema 5 Distribution.
When booker Ralph Donnelly and RKO acquired Cinema 5 the following year, he switched to the film-buying side and remained there throughout the ’80s, working for the chains Walter Reade, Cineplex Odeon and City Cinemas.
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