EXCLUSIVE: In what has been buzzed about round city for fairly a while, Sony‘s Columbia Footage EVP Manufacturing Peter Kang is predicted to get a title bump to President of Manufacturing as Sony Movement Image Group co-President Josh Greenstein is negotiating to hitch Paramount Skydance in a C-suite position, sources inform us.
Kang, we hear, will report into Sanford Panitch, co-President of Sony Movement Image Group.
Kang joined Sony in March 2019 from Lionsgate, the place he was co-president of manufacturing. He had been at Lionsgate for 3 years throughout which period he oversaw such pics as Paul Feig’s A Easy Favor. Earlier than Lionsgate he spent three years as EVP Manufacturing at Paramount, the place he labored on High Gun: Maverick, which turned Tom Cruise’s and Paramount’s highest-grossing film of all time incomes near $1.5 billion.
Previous to that, Kang spent 17 years at twentieth Century Fox, the place he oversaw the relaunch of the Planet of the Apes franchise below Matt Reeves. He additionally introduced in such book-based properties as Gone Lady and The Maze Runner.
A few of Sony’s notable upcoming titles embrace Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing (launch date: August 29), the Margot Robbie- and Colin Farrell-starring A Large Daring Stunning Journey (September 19), the Jack Black comedic reboot of Anaconda (December 25), Nia DaCosta’s sequel for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (January 16, 2026), Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Model New Day which is able to go into manufacturing subsequent month (July 31, 2026), Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil (September 18, 2026) and Jumanji 3 (December 11, 2026). Sony has had one of many higher-grossing horror movies this 12 months with Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, which earned $150 million worldwide.
Sony didn’t reply to request for remark.
