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EXCLUSIVE: This morning Sony Motion Pictures Group Chairman Tom Rothman informed studio staff about a round of recent promotions, with Josh Greenstein and Sanford Panitch each being named to the new shared position of President Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a title which has been vacant since Doug Belgrad's…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart is expanding his Hartbeat Productions banner by tapping Bryan Smiley to be its President of Film and Television. Smiley is currently a vice president of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and he will make the move when his contract expires at the end of the year. SPE has many percolating productions…

EXCLUSIVE: In a strong eight-figure commitment, Mimran Schur Pictures has taken a minority co-financing stake on two upcoming Sony Pictures Entertainment films. Mimran Schur has come aboard to co-finance Holmes & Watson, the Etan Cohen-directed comedy that stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly and opens December 25…

Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairman Tom Rothman just announced that Sanford Panitch has been appointed president of Columbia Pictures. He will replace Doug Belgrad, who is exiting his post in July to kick off a multiyear production and finance pact at Sony. Panitch worked with Rothman at Fox and…

In a bold move by Sony Pictures Entertainment — and the first hire of a Fox executive since former Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman/CEO Tom Rothman took the reins in Culver City — Sanford Panitch has been hired as Sony’s President of International Film & Television. This is a newly created post as Sony creates a…

EXCLUSIVE– Acclaimed international commercial director Antony Hoffman has set up his feature directorial debut Fox Hunt with Fox International Pictures’ president Sanford Panitch. Panitch, widely respected as one of the savviest studio execs working in the international arena, sparked to Hoffman’s pitch about making a…

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EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Fox 2000 EVP Carla Hacken is leaving the studio to become president of production for New Regency. It is the latest move in a restructuring of the company since Arnon Milchan reemerged as an active chairman and installed former Paramount Pictures production president Brad Weston as CEO with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Hours after Deadline revealed the impending exit of New Regency chairmen Bob Harper and Hutch Parker, I’m told that former Paramount Pictures production president Brad Weston is in deep negotiations to run the production/financing company as president/CEO. That is a position similar to the one held by…

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has formed Fox World Cinema, an outlet that will put prestige films from around the world out on DVD, VOD and Digital Download. It sounds like a welcome option for all those films that get great festival response but don’t quite justify the P&A spend necessary for a theatrical…

LOS ANGELES, CA May 5, 2011 – Sanford Panitch, President of Fox International Productions, announced today that Fox International Productions has brokered a deal for the worldwide rights to EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN starring Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Soledad Villamil (The Secret in Their Eyes) in…

Sanford Panitch has left Regency to run Fox International Productions (FIP), a newly formed international production umbrella unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment that will produce, acquire and distribute local language films around the globe. Fox Filmed Entertainment chairmen/CEOs, Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman made…