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Company type | Division |
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Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | 1992Hollywood, California, U.S. | , in
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Headquarters | New York City, U.S. |
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Products | Motion Pictures |
Number of employees | 25[1] |
Parent | Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group |
Website | sonyclassics.com |
Sony Pictures Classics Inc. is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Sony Pictures. It was founded in 1992 by former Orion Classics heads Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom.[2] It distributes, produces and acquires specialty films such as documentaries, independent and arthouse films in the United States and internationally. As of 2015, Barker and Bernard are co-presidents of the division, which is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).[3]
They stay behind the films and manage to find a significant core audience for a large number of them, with the occasional $130 million blowout likeCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, [former United Artists president Bingham] Ray says. 'But they spend a fraction of what a major studio would spend to get the same number. Their philosophy is not to pile a lot of money on everything. They run a tight ship; they don't have an army of people working for them. They keep things simple. Alt URL