Jane Alsobrook, a marketing and publicity specialist who coordinated the U.S. campaigns for numerous successful independent and foreign films in the 1970s and 1980s, has died. She was 78. It was re…
chief David Puttnam as SVP Marketing and Distribution. The regime was short-lived but was highlighted by the release of, which won nine Oscars. After leaving Columbia, she became president of marketing under Greg Coote at Island Pictures.
In 1992, Alsobrook was diagnosed with breast cancer. Stepping down from work on films, she took a conservative approach to treatment, with minimal surgery but aggressive chemotherapy and radiation, which resulted in remission.
In 1995, Alsobrook and her husband, Australian actor and writer Gerard Maguire, moved to the latter’s native country, where Alsobrook was hired the head the film division of the Becker Group and acquired such hit titles as. Eventually, the couple relocated to Sedona, where Alsobrook worked as co-producer of the 2008 independent feature
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