PRESS RELEASES

January 22, 2016 - CULVER CITY, CA - Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that Randy Lake has been appointed President, Studio Operations & Imageworks. Lake oversees all operations, strategy and planning for Sony Pictures Imageworks, Post Production Services, Production Services, Global Mastering and Servicing, and Asset Management.

CULVER CITY, Calif., December 23, 2015 - With the motion picture Concussion already a topic of national conversation among NFL fans and commentators, Sony Pictures Entertainment is offering NFL players and their families free admission to the movie during the duration of the film's run, which begins on Christmas Day. The studio has already engaged many current and former NFL players, holding private screenings in each team's city in advance of its opening.

MADRID, ES & CULVER CITY, CA (DECEMBER 15, 2015) - Sony Pictures Spain today announced it will join Atresmedia Cine and Apache Films to co-produce Oro (aka Gold), a new film based on the short story from bestselling novelist Arturo Perez Reverte, and directed by Goya Award-winner Agustín Díaz Yanes. Additionally, the film will be distributed by Sony Pictures in Spain, Latin America and the US.

CULVER CITY, CA, December 15, 2015 - Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group has promoted veteran Screen Gems executive Pam Kunath to the newly-created position of Executive Vice President, Content Strategy. The announcement was made today by the Motion Picture Group's Chairman Tom Rothman, and President Doug Belgrad, to whom she will now jointly report.

CULVER CITY, CALIF., December 14, 2015 — Father and son re-recording mixers Michael and Christian Minkler have joined the growing roster of sound talent at Sony Pictures Post Production Services. The Minklers, who mixed the current Columbia Pictures release Concussion in Sony Pictures' Burt Lancaster Theatre, have been working at the studio since last year, but are now on a formal basis. The pair previously mixed Insurgent on the Sony lot and are currently collaborating on The Hateful Eight.

CULVER CITY, CALIF. — December 9, 2015 — Sony Pictures Entertainment recently completed an all-new 4K restoration of Cover Girl, director Charles Vidor's 1944 Technicolor musical that marked one of the first starring roles for Rita Hayworth. The new restoration, completed under the supervision of Grover Crisp, Sony Pictures EVP Asset Management, Film Restoration & Digital Mastering, recently premiered at The Museum of Modern Art in New York's just-concluded 13th International Festival of film preservation, To Preserve and Project.

BEIJING, December 2, 2015 — Huaso Film/TV Digital Production, the joint-venture production company of Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and CCTV6's HuaCheng Pictures, and Croton Media announced today that they have secured two deals to bring the local adaptation of SPT's hit, multi award-winning comedy Mad About You to audiences across China.

Shanghai Media Group has acquired the exclusive, first-run satellite TV rights to the new comedy, which will be known locally as Xin Hun Gong Yu. The series will debut in early January 2016 on Dragon TV.

"A joy for both kids and adults alike."
- Greg Wakeman, CinemaBlend

CULVER CITY, Calif., November 10, 2015 - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) today announced the studio's first releases in the next-generation 4K Ultra HD™ Disc format, which will arrive in early 2016.

"By some estimates, consumers will own over 100 million Ultra HD television sets by 2019. Sony Pictures' 4K Ultra HD Discs will deliver consumers the ultimate home theater experience, with stunning picture and sound quality," said SPHE president, Man Jit Singh.

CULVER CITY, Calif., November 10, 2015 - Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted Andrew Gumpert to president, Worldwide Business Affairs and Operations for the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, it was announced today by Tom Rothman, chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, to whom Gumpert will report.