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Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Apollo and Sony moving ahead with bid for Paramount
Private equity outfit Apollo and Sony have told Paramount Global they will make a US$26…
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Sony and Apollo eye fresh Paramount bid
Sony Pictures Entertainment and private equity outfit Apollo Global Management have held talks about launching…
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Sony and Guardian Media Group strike programming pact
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has struck a far-reaching pact with UK-based news organisation Guardian Media…
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Sony’s anime streamers Funimation and Crunchyroll to merge
Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced that it is folding anime streamer Funimation into Crunchyroll. Sony…
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Sony’s Funimation closes Crunchyroll acquisition
Sony’s Funimation group has completed its $1.175bn acquisition of AT&T’s global anime streaming service Crunchyroll,…
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Katzenberg’s NewTV secures funding from big name backers
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s NewTV venture has closed an initial funding round that saw…
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20th Century Fox takes stake in Italian VOD outfit Chili
20th Century Fox has taken a 4% stake in Italian transactional video-on-demand provider Chili in…
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Kaplan exits Sony as Le Goy expands role
Andy Kaplan is one of three president-level executives leaving Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), with worldwide…
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Major content firms pact for anti-piracy coalition
The Hollywood studios, leading SVOD services and key networks around the world have formed a…
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Ex-Fox Networks chief to lead Sony
Former Fox Networks Group chief Tony Vinciquerra has been named CEO and chairman of Sony…
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Ofcom raps AXN and TV3 over lack of subtitling, audio description
Ofcom has found Sony Pictures Entertainment-owned AXN and MTG’s TV3 in breach of it Code…
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Sony appoints international film and TV boss
Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired Fox executive Sanford Panitch to become its president of international…
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Sony Pictures chief Pascal exiting
Amy Pascal is leaving her post as co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and launching a…
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Former Sony digital strategy chief joins General Harmonics
The former chief digital strategy officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Mitch Singer, has joined Canadian…
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TV companies must innovate and engage audiences, warns top media strategist
TV has “not innovated” in the past decade and programmers are losing control over their…
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Standards crucial for second screen, says Sony
Second screen apps related to TV programmes face a range of challenges include the multiplicity…
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Breaking Bad on-demand drives Sony’s TV numbers
Sony has said that subscription video-on-demand deals for Breaking Bad drove a significant increase in…