It’s official: Tom Rothman has signed a multi-year extension of his contract as Chairman and CEO of Sony Footage’ Movement Image Group. The deal will at present make Rothman the longest serving movie chief in Hollywood, and that features his run at twentieth Century Fox.
Some have questioned whether or not Rothman would ever retire, and the very fact of the matter is that he loves the film enterprise an amazing quantity. That is seen in him being a steadfast proponent of theatrical, and a believer in its future longevity, not simply in franchises, however unique films as nicely. For Rothman, cinema is concerning the massive swings. If theatrical goes to outlive, originality should prevail, and typically meaning co-financing some tasks making certain that they hit the display.
The information comes as Sony is predicted to have a giant summer season with Karate Child: Legends on Could 30 and Oscar winner Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later on June 20.
Throughout Rothman’s reign on the Sony Footage Movement Group, he has achieved document profitability over the past decade, and that even goes for franchise films like Venom: The Final Dance which was made for $110M and minted near $480M on the international field workplace. Most lately, Deadline reported that the studio’s function take of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us cleared $207M in any case ancillaries and a worldwide haul of $350M.
Rothman will report in to Sony Footage Leisure CEO Ravi Ahuja, and he’ll oversee the studio’s movement image companies, together with Columbia Footage, TriStar Footage, Display screen Gems, Sony Footage Animation, Sony Footage Imageworks, Sony Footage Worldwide Productions, and Sony Footage Classics. Rothman additionally handles the studio’s dwell stage actions, which embrace MJ: The Musical.
The Sony Boss’ streak contains the highest-grossing film in Columbia’s 100 yr historical past, Spider-Man: No Approach Dwelling ($1.9B worldwide field workplace, excluding China), the lately revived Unhealthy Boys, Jumanji and Ghostbusters collection, the Venom trilogy, Anybody However You, It Ends With Us, No Exhausting Emotions, The Lady King, The place the Crawdads Sing, The Equalizer trilogy, the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Oscar nominated Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse, Quentin Tarantino’s Academy Award nominee for Greatest Image, As soon as Upon a Time…in Hollywood, and Greta Gerwig’s Academy Award nominee for Greatest Image, Little Girls. Earlier this yr, Sony Footage Classics received the Academy Award for Greatest Worldwide Movie for I’m Nonetheless Right here.
Upcoming for Sony is Oscar nominee Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, Academy Award winner Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Solar, Kogonada’s A Large Daring Stunning Journey, starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, and Academy Award winner Sam Mendes’ audacious 4 Beatles movies. Additionally within the works is the fourth installment of Spider-Man starring Tom Holland, Jake Kasdan’s subsequent Jumanji movie, and Nintendo’s live-action movie of the smash hit online game, The Legend of Zelda. Horror franchises returning embrace I Know What You Did Final Summer season, Insidious, and Zach Cregger’s new tackle Resident Evil.
Rothman joined Sony Footage in 2013 as Chairman of TriStar Footage earlier than being named Chairman of Sony Footage’ Movement Image Group in February 2015. His contract was prolonged in 2021 with CEO being added to his Chairman title. Beforehand, Rothman was at Fox for 18 years, serving as Co-Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Leisure from 2000 to 2012 and earlier than that President of Twentieth Century Fox Movie Group and President of Manufacturing for Twentieth Century Fox. There he oversaw quite a few hits together with, however not restricted to Avatar and the X-Males franchise (he was a proponent of an unknown Hugh Jackman on the time to play the enduring Wolverine). He was the founder and first President of Fox Searchlight. Previous to Fox, Rothman was President of Worldwide Manufacturing for the Samuel Goldwyn Firm, Govt Vice President at Columbia Footage, and a companion on the New York leisure legislation agency Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Rothman was a Co-EP on the close to $300M grossing Horton Hears a Who! and really early on in his profession was a co-producer on the Jim Jarmusch cult 1986 film, Down by Legislation, starring Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, and John Lurie.
