PRESS RELEASES

NEW YORK (January 26, 2017) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired worldwide rights to Dave McCary's BRIGSBY BEAR. The highly anticipated film, written by Kevin Costello and Kyle Mooney (aturday Night Live) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section. This is McCary's feature film debut.

NEW YORK (January 22, 2017) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired worldwide rights to Maggie Betts' NOVITIATE. The highly anticipated film is writer and director Betts' feature debut. It recently premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews.

Culver City, CA, January 18, 2017 - Making good on the commitment to increase overall output while continuing to offer its distinctive mix of family films, Sony Pictures Animation today released the project details on its upcoming roster of titles through 2018, along with additional highly anticipated future feature film projects, including one from Pulitzer Prize-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda.

[Tokyo, Japan - January 14, 2017 / Culver City, California - January 13, 2017] Sony Corporation announced today that Michael Lynton will step down as Corporate Executive Officer of Sony Corporation and CEO of Sony Entertainment in charge of its Pictures and Music businesses effective as of February 2, 2017, to be Chairman of the Board of Snap Inc.

NEW YORK (January 6, 2017) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired worldwide rights to Luca Guadagnino's CALL ME BY YOUR NAME. The film, based on André Aciman's acclaimed novel of the same name, is directed by Guadagnino (I AM LOVE, A BIGGER SPLASH, THE UPCOMING SUSPIRIA) and co-written by James Ivory, Walter Fasano and Guadagnino. It will have its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in the Premieres section.

CULVER CITY, Calif., December 20, 2016 - Today, Sony Pictures Animation launches the world's first-ever vertical movie trailer designed especially for mobile users supporting the highly anticipated family comedy The Emoji Movie, the computer animated adventure that unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. For the first 24 hours, the trailer will be optimized for mobile users and best viewed on the phone.

CULVER CITY, Calif., December 5, 2016 - "I'm a Lady," a new song from the multi-platinum reigning Grammy Awards Best New Artist Meghan Trainor, will be featured in Sony Pictures Animation's Smurfs: The Lost Village. The song is performed & written by Meghan Trainor and produced by Martin Rene, Monsters & Strangers and Meghan Trainor.

Fans will be able to hear the song in the new year, in advance of the film's debut in U.S. theaters on April 7, 2017.

CULVER CITY, CA, November 2, 2016 - Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group today announced that Hannah Minghella, president of TriStar Pictures, has renewed her contract with the studio.

Since Minghella was named president of the label in August of 2015, TriStar has been an active buyer of acclaimed literary properties and filmmaker-driven projects.

CULVER CITY, Calif., November 1, 2016 - Sony Pictures Entertainment announced today that the studio is launching a China Writers Initiative in which emerging and established writers from China will be hosted by the studio. Through the initiative, writers from China will meet with established Hollywood film and television executives and screenwriters to exchange and collaborate on ideas both for Hollywood films as well as Hollywood Chinese co-productions to promote and enhance better mutual understanding.

NEW YORK (NOVEMBER 1, 2016) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired the North American and Latin American rights to Academy Award® winning filmmaker Michael Haneke's HAPPY END. Written and directed by Haneke, the French production wrapped in late August.

"All around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind." The film is a snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.