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Yesterday morning Sony Pictures Home Entertainment intended to drop a red-band trailer for Khali the Killer on YouTube, but posted the near-90 minute movie instead. The video reportedly drew 11K views before being pulled down after eight hours. The movie was written and directed by Jon Matthews and headlines Mayans M.C…

Those watching movies at home who also want to play games, explore maps or look at the sets among other things will have a chance to do so as the result of an agreement between Comcast and its Universal Pictures along with Paramount, Lionsgate and Sony Pictures. The studios have agreed to offer “enhanced extras”…

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has pacted with Entertainment One in deal that will see SPHE distribute eOne's specialty label Momentum Pictures on physical and digital platforms globally excluding Canada, where eOne is based. Entertainment One revived the once-defunct Momentum ahead of last fall’s Toronto Film…

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has sealed a multiyear deal with Transmission Films to distribute the company’s titles Down Under. Starting October 1, SPHE will offer Transmission’s library of films and future output to the home entertainment market in Australia — through its joint venture Universal Sony Pictures…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Paul’s SP Releasing and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have inked a multi-year deal for worldwide film distribution. Under the pact, SP Releasing will acquire and distribute films in North American theaters while SPHE will handle home video and digital windows both domestically and…

Comcast is fast becoming a powerful challenger to Apple and Amazon when it comes to selling downloaded movies and TV shows — the long-awaited replacement for DVDs and Blu-ray discs known in the industry as electronic sell through (or EST). And today’s deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will help, bringing…

The goal is to create an industry standard to provide consumers who buy digital copies of movies additional features, much like they experience when they buy DVD and Blu-ray discs. “We have seen in all of our research and studies with consumers that they’d like to see a better price-value relationship around digital…

Sony had the right to bail out on September 30, but will hang in for two years — with two, one-year options to extend the agreement past 2014 — Redbox parent Coinstar says in an SEC filing this morning. The latest change in their alliance also will give Redbox the option to license Blu-ray discs from Sony. When the…

Culver City, Calif. (July 19, 2012) – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has promoted Jason Spivak to Executive Vice President of Worldwide Digital Distribution. The announcement was made today by Jim Underwood, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Digital and Commercial Strategy, to whom he reports. In this role…

London, UK (March 27, 2012) – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) UK today announced three of the studio's hottest summer releases, Jack & Jill, The Vow and 21 Jump Street, will arrive in stores through June and July 2012 with UltraViolet digital versions of the movies included with their respective Blu-ray Discs™…

This is sure to be generating some high-fives over at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In a nice marketing touch, the DVD for Columbia Pictures’ David Fincher-directed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo that hit the street this week has been packaged to look like a burned (re: pirated) disc, complete with the…

Culver City, CA (March 22, 2012) – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) today announced that Kim Overall has been appointed to Senior Vice President, Northern Europe. The announcement was made by Matt Brown, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Commercial, to whom Overall will report. Overall joined the company in…