EXCLUSIVE: Michael Healy, Disney Channel‘s SVP Original Movies, is withdrawal a association after scarcely 16 years and some-more than 90 Disney Channel cinema to pursue other opportunities. Healy, whose final day is Apr 26, led a Disney Channel Original Movie authorization to a strain of 11 uninterrupted year-end finishes as wire TV’s #1 strange film telecast among tweens 9-14, braggadocio a #1 scripted wire TV telecast in sum viewers for 6 of a past 7 years. He shepherded megahits High School Musical and a supplement High School Musical 2 whose premiere became a many watched basic-cable telecast with 18.6 million viewers. The HSM authorization also crossed over into facilities and into probably each facet of a Disney association to turn a billion-dollar worldwide franchise. Other strike Disney Channel strange cinema grown by Healy include Princess Protection Program, The Cheetah Girls (1-3), Camp Rock, Jump In! and Wizards Of Waverly Place The Movie. “Michael’s contributions to Disney Channel have been huge and we will really skip his wit, his knowledge and his conspicuous story-telling ability,” pronounced Gary Marsh, President and Chief Creative Officer, Disney Channels Worldwide, who worked with Healy for his whole reign during a channel. “We wish him continued success with his subsequent ventures.” In light of Healy’s departure, Disney Channel’s Original Movie dialect will be restructured. Healy has Disney Channel’s strange film tube good stocked up: His desirous break-into-song low-pitched Teen Beach Movie, from author Robert Horn, executive Jeffrey Hornaday and choreographer Chris Scott, will premiere in July. It will be followed adult by snowboarding journey Cloud 9, executive constructed by HSM‘s Ashley Tisdale and snowboarding luminary Shaun White.

Healy assimilated Disney Channel in Oct 1997 as VP Original Movies. Before that, he was Director of Motion Pictures-for-Television for CBS, operative on some-more than 50 movies, and VP for Movies for TV and Mini-Series for Reeves Entertainment. Healy began his career as a author during The Courier Express in Buffalo, NY, and was a film censor for The Denver Post and The Daily News Of Los Angeles.

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