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Sony Pictures Entertainment has posted operating income of $381M (50.7BN yen) for the first quarter of this year, up 70% on the $232M posted in the same period last year on a currency basis. Revenues grew 41% to $2.58BN (341.4BN yen), compared with last year's $1.87BN. The numbers were significantly…

Sony Pictures Entertainment is strengthening its India team with the appointments of Shony Panjikaran as general manager and head of Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI), India, and Lada Guruden Singh as general manager and head of Sony Pictures International Productions (SPIP), India. The move marks the first…

UPDATE, writethru: For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, Sony Pictures Entertainment saw a 172% increase in operating income to 217.4 billion yen ($1.67 billion). Revenues hit 1,239 billion yen ($9.5 billion), up 55% versus the previous year. The significant jumps were primarily due to higher sales in all…

EXCLUSIVE:  Jonathan Gist has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as Executive Director of Global Intersectional Marketing, supporting all of the studio's labels, including Columbia Pictures, 3000 Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Affirm Films and Sony Pictures Animation. Gist will report to Ellene Miles, SVP of…

Sony's Morbius is ostensibly a Spider-Man spin-off, but in many ways the Marvel movie has more in common with DC's solemn The Batman. Michael Morbius is a moody, Byronic scientist living in New York, with rich sponsors to fund his research into the rare blood disorder he suffers from. The answer could possibly lurk in…

A day after Disney announced it was suspending its business in Russia amid the invasion of Ukraine, Sony Pictures Entertainment has made it known that it is doing the same. This goes beyond the standard theatrical releases which both studios earlier halted. Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra…

After last summer’s official close of the anime mega-merger of Crunchyroll and Funimation, Sony Pictures Entertainment has unified the offerings into a single service. Crunchyroll subscribers starting today will gain access to streaming fare previously exclusive to Funimation as Sony starts to phase out the Funimation…

UPDATE, writethru: With a major assist from the phenomenal global box office performance of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Sony Pictures Entertainment has recorded a third-quarter profit of $1.314 billion, up a staggering 570% from the comparable period in 2020. Revenues saw a 122% increase to $4.063 billion versus the same…

EXCLUSIVE: TikTok’s grip on young audiences is a well-established fact, but the social network has just released a new report detailing how that defining trait has made it increasingly attractive to Hollywood. In a new blog post titled “The Future of Entertainment Marketing,” the company, which has more than 1 billion…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed an overall deal with the writing and producing team of Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman under their new production arm, RaqMar Entertainment. The new entity will focus on writing and producing with a multicultural emphasis for the theatrical market. They will also…

GSN, the game-focused media brand owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, has promoted longtime sales chief John Zaccario to the position of president. Zaccario, a 13-year company veteran who had held the title of EVP of Ad Sales, succeeds Mark Feldman, who left to join Scopely after the company acquired the GSN Games…

Sony Pictures Entertainment recorded $288M in operating profits for the three months ending September 30, repping a 7% dip from the same period last year. Revenues in the division, however, were up 35% to $2.37B. Reporting its full fiscal 2021 second quarter earnings this afternoon in Tokyo, Sony Corp said overall…