PRESS RELEASES

CULVER CITY, Calif., March 22nd, 2015- Sony Pictures Entertainment has closed a deal to adapt the Tony Award-winning Broadway smash "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" into a feature film, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, and Michael De Luca, who serves as the studio's president of Production with Hannah Minghella. The hit show will be adapted by Douglas McGrath, who is also the writer of the musical's book.

CULVER CITY, Calif., March 19, 2015 - The trailer for Sony Pictures Entertainment's Pixels, the highly anticipated action-comedy event film slated for release on July 24, 2015, generated 34.3 million views worldwide in its first 24 hours online, making it the studio's #1 trailer launch of all time. This debut bests the studio's previous record of 22 million streams in 24 hours for The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

CULVER CITY, Calif., February 25, 2015 - Sony Pictures Entertainment has entered into a two-year, first-look deal with Josh Bratman's Immersive Pictures, it was announced today by Michael DeLuca and Hannah Minghella, presidents of Production for Columbia Pictures.

[CULVER CITY - February 24, 2015] Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton today named Tom Rothman as the next Chairman of SPE's Motion Picture Group. Rothman ran Fox Filmed Entertainment from 2000-2012 and is currently Chairman of TriStar Productions at SPE.

CULVER CITY, Calif., February 2, 2015 - Director/producer Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer have cast an energetic company of some of the world's most talented and interesting rising international stars to join Tom Hanks in Inferno, the new film in Columbia Pictures' Robert Langdon series, which has taken in more than $1.2 billion worldwide to date.

(Culver City, California, and Burbank, California February 09, 2015)- Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Studios announced today that Sony is bringing Marvel into the amazing world of Spider-Man.

NEW YORK (February 7, 2015) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they acquired North American and Latin American rights to 13 MINUTES from Beta Cinema. The film, directed by Academy Award® nominated Oliver Hirschbiegel (DOWNFALL), is playing Out of Competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

CULVER CITY, Calif., February 5, 2015 - Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman of SPE and Chairman of the Motion Picture Group, will launch a major new production venture at the studio. Pascal will transition to the new venture in May 2015.

Ms. Pascal who joined Columbia Pictures in 1988, said that after several decades as a senior executive at Sony Pictures, she had decided to launch her own company that would focus on movies, television and theater. Details of Ms. Pascal's film venture will be announced shortly.

CULVER CITY, Calif., February 2, 2015 - Sony Pictures Entertainment announced today that it acquired the feature film rights to Descender, the forthcoming comic book series from New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lemire and New York Times bestselling comic artist Dustin Nguyen. Josh Bratman will produce the film with Lemire and Nguyen attached to executive produce. The first issue of the eagerly awaited series will be published by Image Comics on March 4, 2015.

NEW YORK (January 29, 2015) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all North American rights to Woody Allen's upcoming film, IRRATIONAL MAN, from Gravier Productions.

Produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum and Edward Walson, the film features a prestigious cast including Jamie Blackley, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey and Emma Stone.

"Sony Classics and I have a good working relationship. I like the way they handle my movies, very special, very classy and I always hope my films live up to their expectations," said Woody Allen.