Searchlight taps Componen sales professional

RodriguezFox Searchlight has hired Vital theatrical sales professional Frank Rodriguez as senior Vice president and assistant general sales director. Rodriguez will are accountable to professional Vice president of distribution Sheila DeLoach. Appointment marks a Fox homecoming for Rodriguez, who started his career at Searchlight parent company twentieth century Fox in early eighties. In 1990, professional required around the role of branch manager for that studio and gone to live in NY before joining Searchlight as Vice president of sales because of its eastern division in 1995. He gone to live in DreamWorks in 1997, and many lately offered as senior veep and eastern sales director for Vital. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com