Overview: Michael Barker and Tom Bernard are co-presidents of Sony Pictures Classics - an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment founded in January 1992 (with Marcie Bloom) that distributes, produces and acquires independent films from the United States and around the world.

History. Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) was formed in 1992 by Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom, and set up as an autonomous division of Sony Pictures to produce, acquire and/or distribute independent films from the United States and internationally.

In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.

(commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded ...

Michael Barker Michael Barker is the Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics (with Tom Bernard) since January 1992. Sony Pictures Classics distributes, produces, and acquires independent films from the United States and around the world.

A consumer electronics giant However, the company is most associated with the widely popular line of home video game consoles under the gaming brand PlayStation.

Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in Shirokiya, a department store building in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. The company started with a capital of ¥190,000 and a total of eight employees.

Living is a 2022 British drama film directed by Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa, which in turn was partly inspired by the 1886 Russian novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.

Living, a movie adapted by a fiction writer who first saw its original story acted out by his mother when he was a child, is particularly fascinating for how it seems to pull together all the various threads of Ishiguro's history: his curiosities, his heritage, his early life as a jobbing scriptwriter, his abiding love ...

Sony Target Audience Sony produces a broad range of products and services, therefore it can be said that it appeals to customers of all ages and preferences. The firm specifically aims to attract tech-savvy or gadget-interested individuals.

Pioneer the future with dreams and curiosity. Pursue the creation of the very best by harnessing diversity and varying viewpoints. Earn the trust for the Sony brand through ethical and responsible conduct. Fulfill our stakeholder responsibilities through disciplined business practices.

Sony Corporation In 1988, Sony Corporation (Japan) acquired the CBS Records group (USA), and two years later it created Sony Classical to succeed the time-honoured Columbia and CBS Masterworks labels.

Michael Barker is the Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics (with Tom Bernard) since January 1992. Sony Pictures Classics distributes, produces, and acquires independent films from the United States and around the world.