The promotion means that Santor will now fully oversee the company’s sales, administration and the exploitation of the 100+ title library that New Regency and majority owner Arnon Milchan own the rights to, Harper said:

“Louis has been an integral part of New Regency’s success for more than 15 years, with the last 10 years having served as CFO… Louis’ leadership and business acumen will, no doubt, further New Regency’s continued growth.”

New Regency’s association with 20th Century Fox has become even closer since Harper replaced former CEO David Matalon last year and added Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) John Hegeman from Fox Atomic last month.

 Louis Santor, New Regency’s new COO

Regency’s been on a roll of sorts under Harper’s leadership, releasing “Meet the Spartans” two weeks ago with the film already grossing $29 million (BOPsy forecasts a final box office of $47 million which will surpass “Epic Movie’s” $40 million gross and come close to “Date Movie’s” gross of $48.5 million) and “Alvin & the Chipmunks”  has already grossed over $315 million worldwide and become Regency’s largest grossing domestic hit when it surpassed “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and the $186 million that the film earned domestically (’Smith‘ had a worldwide total of $478 million in 2005.)

Next up for Regency is “Jumper” which stars Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson and Samuel L. Jackson and “The Night Watchman” with Keanu Reeves and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.

Regency’s TV arm has two shows premeiring in March on Fox: “New Amsterdam” and “Jezebel James,” and for ABC a pilot entitled ”The More Things Change.”