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...The group has produced a biopic, to be released next month through Sony Pictures, and attached Houston’s name to perfume and cosmetics lines....
...“If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it,” remarked Sony co-founder Akio Morita when asked about his company’s purchase of Columbia Pictures....
...For Napoleon, Apple will work with Sony, where the head of the Motion Picture Group is Tom Rothman, a longtime collaborator with director Ridley Scott....
...Sony a7R V, £3,999 @rhodri...
...It’s not just entertainment unions.”...
...begun to feel the pressure of consolidation in the entertainment world....
...The figures, which immediately made the movie the top-grossing film of the year in the country, marked a stunning success for Sony Pictures....
...Under the terms of the merger proposal, Sony Pictures Networks India would pay $1.6bn for a 53 per cent stake in the combined entity, while Goenka would stay as chief executive....
...Still buffering Sony’s strategy as an entertainment “arms dealer” has helped it scrape by as cost-conscious households turn on Netflix and other subscription services....
...It can change the whole way the entertainment sector works”....
...The case involves a series of cyber attacks that took place over an 11-year span, including the 2014 hack that targeted Sony Pictures Entertainment over its intention to release The Interview, a comedy about...
...“Music, pictures and games are Sony’s holy trinity but they don’t function well together. The company recently claimed anime would be its new cornerstone content....
...The group also recently consolidated the anime streaming services of Sony Music Entertainment Japan’s Aniplex with Sony Pictures Television’s Funimation unit, bringing together French platform Wakanim and...
...In February, she announced a deal with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Studios to develop two more series and a movie, along with a first-look TV deal with Sony Pictures Television....
...Thursday: Business software company VMware reports first-quarter results after the close, along with earnings from Dell, Salesforce.com and HP Inc....
...Under its chief executive Kenichiro Yoshida, Sony has spent more than $3.5bn in the past two years on beefing up content for its entertainment business, which generates more than half of its profits....
...“Jim Ryan [head of games division Sony Interactive Entertainment] and Tony Vinciquerra [head of Sony Pictures Entertainment] are partners, and even friends.”...
...Massive, founded in 1996, provides video technology to a variety of broadcasters and entertainment companies, including the BBC and Sony Pictures. It will become a division of Deltatre....
...The question now is, who is ready to sell: Sony Pictures Entertainment has long been viewed as a target, but its parent company in Japan has resisted it....
...WarnerMedia emerged over the summer as a frontrunner for the deal, ultimately edging out rivals including Apple, Comcast/NBCUniversal and Sony....
...Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros have promised not to enforce or reintroduce restrictions that prevent any European broadcaster selling its services beyond its home market to customers...
...A “disappointing creation”, said Entertainment Weekly....
...Respawn Entertainment, the EA unit behind Apex Legends, said 50m users signed up to play in the first month following its February 4 launch....
...This was why the Sony Walkman was passed by both the iPod and then the iPhone, and it struggled to conjure more than the sum of the parts from Sony Pictures, Sony Music and its hardware....
...Sony Pictures Entertainment is also expected to release a new film based on a game title in the near future, according to Mr Yoshida....
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