It’s official: Tom Rothman has signed a multi -year extension of his contract as president and chief executive officer of the Cinematographic Group of Sony Pictures. The agreement will make Rothman the oldest cinema chief in Hollywood, and this includes his race at the 20th Century Fox.
Some wondered if Rothman would retire, and the fact is that he loves cinema enormously. This can be seen in him being a constant supporter of the theatrical, and a believer in his longevity – not only in franchises but also original films. For Rothman, the cinema concerns large swings. If the theater will survive, the originality must prevail, and sometimes it means co -finance certain projects by ensuring that they reach the screen.
The news occurs while Sony should have a great summer with Karate Kid: Legends May 30 and the winner of the Oscars Danny Boyle 28 years later June 20.
During Rothman’s Reign at Sony Pictures Motion Group, he has reached the profitability of records in the last decade, and it even goes for franchise films like Venom: the last dance which was designed for $ 110 million and hit nearly $ 480 million at the world box office. More recently, Deadline has reported that taking the feature film from Colleen Hoover studio It ends with us has released $ 207 million after all accessories and world transport of $ 350 million.
Rothman will report the CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ravi Ahuja, and he will supervise the studio’s cinematographic companies, in particular Columbia Pictures, Tristar Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Productions and Sony Pictures Classics. Rothman also manages the live stage activities of the studio, which include MJ: Musical comedy.
Sony Boss’s sequence includes the most profitable film in the history of 100 years of Columbia, Spider-Man: No time at home ($ 1.9 billion at the world box office, excluding China); recently relaunched Bad boys, Jumanji And Ghosts series; THE Venom trilogy; and photos Anyone except you, it ends with us, no resentment, the king’s woman, where the crawdad sing, the equalizer Trilogy, the Oscar winner Spider-man: in the spider and nominated with Spider-man: through the spider-verse, Nominated from Quentin Tarantino’s Oscars for the best image Once upon a time in Hollywood, and nominated from Greta Gerwig’s Oscars for the best image Small women. Earlier this year, Sony Pictures Classics won the Oscar for the best international film for I’m still there.
The next for Sony is Darren Aronofsky FlyingWinner of the Taika Waititi Oscars Klara and the sun, Kogonada A Big daring With Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell,, And the Oscars, Sam Mendes, Four Beatles Films. Also in preparation is the fourth episode of Spider With Tom Holland, Jake Kasdan’s Next Jumanji movie,, And the live film of Nintendo of video games with breeze Zelda’s legend. Horror franchises return include I know what you did last summer, insidious And the new version of Zach Cregger Resident Evil.
Rothman joined Sony Pictures in 2013 as president of Tristar Pictures before being appointed president of the Cinematographic Group of Sony Pictures in February 2015. His contract was extended in 2021, when the CEO was added as president.
Previously, Rothman was in Fox for 18 years, as co -president and CEO of Fox filmed Entertainment from 2000 to 2012 and before the president of the 20th Century Fox Film Group and Production President for 20th Century Fox. There he supervised many successes, including Avatar and the X-Men Franchise (he was a supporter of an unknown Hugh Jackman at the time to play the emblematic Wolverine). He was the founder and first president of Fox Searchlight.
Before Fox, Rothman was president of the world production of the Samuel Goldwyn Company, EVP at Columbia Pictures and partner of the law firm in New York Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Rothman was a Co-à la feat Horton hears one who! And at the start of his career, he was co -producer of the film cult 1986 Jim Jarmusch By law With Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni and John Lurie.
