Tom Rothman has signed a multi-year extension of his contract as chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group.
Reporting to Sony Pictures Entertainment president and CEO Ravi Ahuja, Rothman oversees the studio’s motion picture businesses, including Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures International Productions, and Sony Pictures Classics. He also handles the studio’s live stage activities, which include MJ: The Musical.
Now the longest serving film chief in Hollywood, Rothman has led the studio for over a decade. He joined Sony Pictures in 2013 as chairman of TriStar Pictures before being named chairman of Sony Pictures’ motion picture group in February 2015. His contract was extended in 2021 with CEO being added to his title.
The fierce advocate of theatrical-first distribution has presided over hits including 2021 smash Spider-Man: No Way Home, which earned $1.9bn worldwide to become the highest-grossing film in Columbia Pictures’ 100-year history.
Others include the Bad Boys, Jumanji, and Ghostbusters series; the Venom trilogy, Anyone But You; It Ends With Us; the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and its Oscar-nominated sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; and Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. This year, Sony Pictures Classics won the Oscar for best international feature film for I’m Still Here.
The upcoming slate brings releases such as Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, Taika Waititi’s Klara And The Sun, Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey , and, in April 2028, Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic.
Previously, Rothman was at Fox for 18 years, serving as co-chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment from 2000 to 2012, and before that president of Twentieth Century Fox Film Group and president of Production for Twentieth Century Fox. He was the founder and first president of Fox Searchlight.
Prior to Fox, Rothman was president of worldwide production for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, EVP at Columbia Pictures, and a partner at the New York entertainment law firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
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