PRESS RELEASES

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.

Los Angeles, Calif. - October 21, 2016 - Sony Pictures International Productions (SPIP) today announced that award-winning filmmakers Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman have signed a multi-picture development deal with Sony Pictures International Productions.

Under the deal, Mexico and LA-based Cisneros and Shuman will write and produce three new feature films with SPIP. The partnership furthers Sony Pictures' commitment to broaden its global presence and its support of local language productions.

Culver City, CA, October 10, 2016 - Sony Pictures Animation announced today that Emmy and Tony award winner James Corden (Into the Woods) and Emmy nominee Ilana Glazer (Broad City) would join previously announced T.J. Miller (Deadpool) to lead the cast of summer 2017's animated comedy EMOJIMOVIE: EXPRESS YOURSELF.

NEW YORK (October 5, 2016) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired North American rights to Academy Award® winner Taylor Hackford's comedy, THE COMEDIAN. Written by Art Linson, THE COMEDIAN stars Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone and Veronica Ferres. The film will have an awards qualifying run in 2016 and open officially in 2017.

CULVER CITY, Calif., and LONDON, UK, September 22, 2016 - Columbia Pictures has teamed up with Frederick Warne & Co., part of Penguin Random House UK, for Peter Rabbit™, a new live-action/CG motion picture based on the internationally beloved series of books written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, whose 150^th anniversary is being celebrated this year.

NEW YORK (September 22, 2016) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all rights in the US, Latin America, Asia (excluding Japan), Eastern Europe, Portugal and South Africa to Paolo Virzì's THE LEISURE SEEKER.

September 20, 2016 - CULVER CITY, CA - Sony Pictures' virtual reality (VR) group and Madison Wells Media's Reality One today announced a partnership to develop a slate of VR content.

Under the terms of the deal, Reality One will partner with Sony Pictures' VR group to produce and finance new VR experiences based on the studio's films and franchises as well as original intellectual property. Global distribution of VR content will be managed by Sony Pictures, starting later this year.

NEW YORK (September 19, 2016) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired North American rights to Eleanor Coppola's narrative directorial and screenwriting debut, PARIS CAN WAIT, which made its World Premiere last week during the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 - CULVER CITY, CA - Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) today announced that Lia Vollack has been named President of Columbia Live Stage, SPE's new live theatrical productions division.

Based in New York, Vollack will produce and develop original theatrical productions, and work with the library catalogues of Sony Pictures and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to bring new productions to Broadway and other live theatrical venues. She will report to Michael Lynton, CEO, Sony Entertainment.

CULVER CITY, Calif., September 6, 2016 - Marisa Liston has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Domestic Publicity for Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, overseeing the department, it was announced today by Andre Caraco, Co-President of Marketing, and Christine Birch, President of Marketing for the studio.

Liston, who reports to Caraco, will develop and oversee the key domestic publicity strategies on all feature films released by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation.