Tobin A. Armbrust (born 1971) is an American film producer who works for Exclusive Media, a film production and distribution company. The films he has produced include ''

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'' (2006), '' Let Me In'' (2010), '' The Woman in Black'' (2012), ''

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'' (2012), '' Rush'' (2013), '' Begin Again'' (2013), and '' Dark Places'' (2014).

Career

After completing a bachelor's degree in political science at the

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, Armbrust entered the film industry by working as a head of acquisitions at several distribution companies, including the French

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and the Japanese

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. He then worked at

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for seven years as Vice President of business development and of production; he was also a producer for

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, where he oversaw the development of over 30 films and served as a co-producer of the 2006 thriller film ''

''. He also ran Thunder Road Pictures with Basil Iwanyk until March 2006, when he was hired by Spitfire Pictures as a co-head of production. In 2008, he joined Exclusive Media, a British film production and distribution company founded the same year by Guy East and

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, with whom Armbrust had worked at Intermedia. The first films whose production he oversaw at Exclusive Media were '' The Woman in Black'' and ''

'', both of which were released in 2012 to financial success, followed by the 2013 releases, '' Parkland'' and '' Rush'', which performed poorly at the North American box office. As a producer of '' Let Me In'' (2010), he and the film's other producers received a nomination for Best Feature at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. With Exclusive Media, he produced '' Begin Again'' (2013), '' The Quiet Ones'' (2014), '' A Walk Among the Tombstones'' (2014), and '' Dark Places'' (2014). As of 2014, Armbrust serves as the Exclusive Media's President of Worldwide Production and Acquisitions.

Personal life

Armbrust is married with two children, and lives and works in Beverly Hills, California.

References

External links

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Exclusive Media corporate biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Armbrust, Tobin Living people American film producers University of California, Santa Barbara alumni 1971 births