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Sony Lays Off 900 Employees in Gaming Division
Sony is the latest tech and gaming giant to undergo a significant round of layoffs. The company’s Sony Interactive Entertainment unit is cutting 8 percent of its workforce, or about 900 people, its CEO Jim Ryan told employees Tuesday morning. The division includes Sony’s PlayStation devices, as well as multiple game development studios. “Through discussions […]
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Robert Lawson Promoted to Lead Sony Corp. Comms
Sony Pictures chief communications officer Robert Lawson is being promoted to lead comms for all of Sony Group Corp. In his new role as senior VP of corporate communications, Lawson will report to SGC CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, and will be based in Tokyo. In a note to Sony Pictures staff Wednesday evening, SPE CEO Tony […]
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Sam Mendes Sets Beatles Biopic Movie Series at Sony
Sam Mendes has teamed with Sony Pictures Entertainment for The Beatles, four theatrical films about the British supergroup, each from the perspective of a different band member. The project, coming more than 50 years after The Beatles broke up and 40 years after the death of John Lennon, will see Apple Corps (the company founded by the band […]
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Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse: Forget About a New Franchise
The trailer buzz was worrisome, advance ticket sales anemic. Then last week, the critic reviews for Madame Web were posted, and they stung deepest of all — Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff received the lowest average Rotten Tomatoes score (13 percent) of any major superhero film in nearly a decade. “On Wednesday night, you could actually watch […]
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Sony Pictures Third-Quarter Profit Hits $281M
Sony Pictures Entertainment saw its fiscal third-quarter profit hit $281 million, up from $179 million in the year-ago period and $204 million in the previous quarter. Revenue for the film and television unit reached $2.47 billion in the latest period, up from $2.35 billion in the year-ago quarter and down from $2.77 billion in the […]
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Sony Renames Music Building After John Williams as Hollywood Legends Turn Out to Pay Tribute
On Thursday afternoon, the history-filled Sony lot in Culver City — which was the MGM lot during Hollywood’s Golden Age, home to “more stars than there are in heaven” — welcomed film composer John Williams, after whom the studio’s musical building was being renamed. Williams, 91, who is best known for the scores of Star Wars and […]
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Sony Pictures General Counsel Leah Weil to Step Down
Sony Pictures Entertainment General Counsel Leah Weil is stepping down and transitioning to an advisory role after nearly 30 years with the company to focus on family, friends and other personal priorities that she’s pushed aside because of the non-stop nature of her job, she announced in a memo to staff on Tuesday. “After more […]
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CES: DP Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki Filmed Endangered Whales to Test New Sony Camera
Cinematographer Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, known for winning three consecutive Oscars for Gravity, Birdman and The Revenant, got to know some special subjects for his latest project. Lubezki teamed with conservation photographers Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen to helped Sony launch its soon-to-be-released Burano digital cinema camera, billed as a new tool with the image quality of the Sony Venice […]
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The Best PlayStation 5 Bundle Deals to Shop Online, Including ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’ and ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’ Editions
Sony's re-designed gaming console now comes with free games.
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The Guardian Newspaper Inks First-Look Deal With Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed a new exclusive first-look deal with U.K. newspaper The Guardian, giving the studio first rights to The Guardian’s reporting for film and TV adaptations. The deal will give SPE’s film and television production groups, which include film divisions such as Columbia Pictures, TriStar, Screen Gems and 3000 Pictures as well […]
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Sharon Stone Alleges a Former Head of Sony Exposed Himself to Her in the ’80s
Sharon Stone alleges that during the 1980s, an unnamed head of Sony exposed himself to her before implying she engaged in sexual acts in his office. The Oscar-nominated actress revealed the alleged interaction while appearing on the latest episode of SiriusXM’s Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa, which published Wednesday. The conversation saw Stone discussing […]
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Dan Harmon Gives Update on “Truly Terrifying” ‘Community’ Movie
“I don’t think it’s too much of a spoiler to say that the story would involve the gang getting back together,” says Dan Harmon. That’s how he, star Joel McHale and co-writer Andrew Guest pitched the Community movie around town, pre-strike. And though Harmon and Guest still have work to do on the script, which […]
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