{"id":25470,"date":"2015-09-30T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/?p=25470"},"modified":"2015-12-02T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T23:23:57","slug":"sony-pictures-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/2015\/09\/30\/sony-pictures-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures #1"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Siyi Tian<\/pre>\n
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Logo<\/p><\/div>\n
Sony Pictures Entertainment
\n<\/b>10202 West Washington Blvd.
\nCulver City, California 90232
\nhttp:\/\/www.sonypictures.com<\/a><\/p>\n
History<\/strong><\/p>\n
Sony Pictures Entertainment is owned by Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. Its history can be traced back to 1918 when brothers Harry and Jack Cohn formed a partnership with their associate Joe Brandt, to produce low-budget short films and features. They called the company CBC Film Sales (Cohn-Brandt-Cohn- or as it was more commonly known in the trade press, “Corned Beef and Cabbage”). By 1920, the film industry was attracting audiences of 35 million a week willing to pay five cents a pop to be drawn into the magical world of filmed entertainment. Meanwhile, down the road in Hollywood, Columbia Pictures got its start, bringing pictures like It Happened One Night and Lawrence of Arabia to life. Columbia Pictures officially moved onto the studio lot in 1990 after its acquisition by Sony Corporation [1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n
In 2015,\u00a0according to the\u00a0consolidated financial report, Sony Pictures Entertainment got over 68,466 million dollar in total revenue, which shows 5.8% increase compare to the previous year[18]<\/a>. Its new feature movie Spectre has\u00a0over 17million on the total gross.[22]<\/a>. Sony pictures has 15 movies released so far\u00a0and it is the fifth distributer that owns 9.2% in the ranking of market share\u00a0in 2015[23]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Key Executives<\/strong>[2]<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n
For now, there are seven key executives in Sony Pictures Entertainment.<\/p>\n
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Steve-mosko, Chairman, Sony Pictures Television<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Tom Rothman,
\nChairman, Sony Motion Picture Group<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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David C. Hendler
\nSenior Executive VP & Chief Financial Officer<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Robert Lawson
\nExecutive VP & Chief Comm Officer<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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George Rose
\nExecutive VP, People & Organization<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Leah Weil
\nSenior Executive VP & General Counsel<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Michael Lynton, Chairman & CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment<\/p><\/div>\n
The movies of SPE and Representative Movies
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Movie reserved by SPE<\/strong><\/p>\n
As a company with long history of film shooting and transaction, Sony Pictures Entertainment now has a library of more than 4,000 films (including 12 Academy Award for Best Picture winners). Per statistics, each year\u00a0Sony Pictures Entertainment distributes about 22 films on average under its various studio brands in 67 countries [16]<\/a>. Quite a lot of them are very popular and still being produced by series currently. The movie and the derivative products like discs selling and rental could be the company’s major source of income.<\/p>\n
Spiderman Series<\/h1>\n
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[3] <\/a>Poster of Spiderman 2, 2004<\/p><\/div>\n
Spiderman series movie is one of the hottest movies in the new century which shot by Sony Picture Entertainment. Its plot is based on the popular Marvel comic “The amazing Spider-man”, which describes a young man gains the super power after he was bitten by a mutant spider. He then uses the super power to fight against the evils to protect the city and people he loves[4]<\/a>. The film series have already had 6 released movies from 2002 to 2014, which are distributed worldwide and realizes US$3.96 billion gross box office revenue [5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
James BondSeries<\/h1>\n
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[6]<\/a> Poster of James Bond – Spectre (2015)<\/p><\/div>\n
James Bond Series is another long lived, well famous and representative movie owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is inherited from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) by M&A transaction in the past[7]<\/a>. The James Bond Series describe a legendary secret Britain special agent who fights against various evils in many countries since Cold War, whose unique selling points contains lots of stunts, high technology factors and beautiful women who are called ‘Bondgirl’[9]<\/a>. Although it is well criticized by the feminism as discriminating the women, James Bond Series is still the hottest movie in the world.\u00a0 There are 26 releases of James Bond Movies from 1963 to 2015, which accumulatively realizes US$4.70 billion of box office revenue so far [8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n