Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics, or SPC, 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 (similar to Paramount Vantage, Miramax, Searchlight Pictures, and Focus Features).[2] It distributes, produces and acquires specialty films such as documentaries, independent and art films in the United States and internationally. As of 2015, Barker and Bernard are co-presidents of the division.
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| Type | Division |
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| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (1992) |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
Key people |
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| Products | Motion Pictures |
| Owner | Sony Entertainment (Sony Corporation) |
Number of employees | 25[1] |
| Parent | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
| Website | www |
History
Co-founder and co-president Michael Barker
Sony Pictures Classics was formed in 1992, by Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom, set up as an autonomous division of Sony Pictures.[2] The model of the company is to produce, acquire and/or distribute independent films from the United States and internationally.[3]
Sony Pictures Classics has a history of making reasonable investments for small films, and getting a decent return.[2][4][5] It has a history of not overspending.[2][6] Its largest commercial success of the 2010s is Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), which grossed over $56 million in the U.S., becoming Allen's highest-grossing film ever in the United States.
Occasionally, Sony Pictures Classics agrees to release films for all other film studio divisions of Sony; however, under Sony Pictures Classics' structure within Sony, all other divisions of Sony (including the parent company) cannot force Sony Pictures Classics to release any film that the division does not want to release.[2][7]
Select releases
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Release Date | Title | |
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| January 15, 2010 | The Last Station | |
| February 26, 2010 | A Prophet (Un Prophete) | |
| March 26, 2010 | Chloe | |
| April 30, 2010 | Please Give | |
| May 7, 2010 | Mother and Child | |
| May 21, 2010 | The Secret in Their Eyes | |
| June 25, 2010 | Wild Grass | |
| July 23, 2010 | Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | |
| July 30, 2010 | Get Low | |
| August 6, 2010 | Lebanon | |
| August 13, 2010 | Animal Kingdom | |
| September 3, 2010 | A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop | |
| September 22, 2010 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | |
| October 8, 2010 | Inside Job | |
| Tamara Drewe | ||
| November 19, 2010 | Made in Dagenham | |
| December 29, 2010 | Another Year | |
| January 14, 2011 | Barney's Version | |
| February 25, 2011 | Of Gods and Men | |
| March 18, 2011 | Winter in Wartime | |
| April 1, 2011 | In a Better World | |
| April 22, 2011 | Incendies | |
| POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold | ||
| May 20, 2011 | Midnight in Paris | |
| July 15, 2011 | Life, Above All | |
| July 29, 2011 | The Guard | |
| August 26, 2011 | Higher Ground | |
| September 16, 2011 | Restless | Co-production with Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment |
| September 30, 2011 | Take Shelter | |
| October 14, 2011 | The Skin I Live In | |
| November 23, 2011 | A Dangerous Method | |
| December 16, 2011 | Carnage | |
| December 30, 2011 | A Separation | |
| February 10, 2012 | In Darkness | |
| March 9, 2012 | Footnote | |
| March 23, 2012 | The Raid: Redemption | |
| April 6, 2012 | Damsels in Distress | |
| April 20, 2012 | Darling Companion | |
| May 11, 2012 | Where Do We Go Now? | |
| June 22, 2012 | To Rome with Love | |
| June 29, 2012 | Neil Young Journeys | |
| July 27, 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | |
| August 3, 2012 | Celeste and Jesse Forever | |
| August 17, 2012 | Chicken with Plums | |
| October 12, 2012 | Smashed | |
| November 23, 2012 | Rust and Bone | |
| December 19, 2012 | Amour | |
| December 25, 2012 | West of Memphis | |
| February 1, 2013 | The Gatekeepers | |
| February 15, 2013 | No | |
| April 5, 2013 | The Company You Keep | |
| April 24, 2013 | At Any Price | |
| May 3, 2013 | Love Is All You Need | |
| May 24, 2013 | Before Midnight | |
| Fill the Void | ||
| June 28, 2013 | I'm So Excited | |
| July 26, 2013 | Blue Jasmine | |
| August 14, 2013 | The Patience Stone | |
| August 16, 2013 | Austenland | |
| September 13, 2013 | Wadjda | |
| October 16, 2013 | Kill Your Darlings | |
| December 20, 2013 | The Past | |
| December 25, 2013 | The Invisible Woman | |
| January 31, 2014 | Tim's Vermeer | |
| February 28, 2014 | The Lunchbox | |
| March 21, 2014 | Jodorowsky's Dune | |
| March 28, 2014 | The Raid 2 | |
| April 11, 2014 | Only Lovers Left Alive | |
| April 25, 2014 | For No Good Reason | |
| June 20, 2014 | Third Person | |
| July 11, 2014 | Land Ho! | |
| July 25, 2014 | Magic in the Moonlight | |
| August 22, 2014 | Love Is Strange | |
| October 14, 2014 | Whiplash | Winner from the Academy Awards: Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor. U.S. distributor; Co-production with Bold Films and Blumhouse Productions. Stage 6 Films distributed in other territories. |
| November 14, 2014 | Foxcatcher | |
| December 19, 2014 | Mr. Turner | |
| December 25, 2014 | Leviathan | |
| 2014 | Island Dreams | |
| January 16, 2015 | Still Alice | |
| January 23, 2015 | Red Army | |
| February 20, 2015 | Wild Tales | |
| March 6, 2015 | The Lady in the Van | U.S. distributor; Co-production with TriStar Productions and BBC Films, International distribution by TriStar Pictures |
| March 27, 2015 | The Salt of the Earth | |
| May 8, 2015 | Saint Laurent | |
| May 22, 2015 | Aloft | |
| July 17, 2015 | Irrational Man | |
| August 7, 2015 | The Diary of a Teenage Girl | |
| August 21, 2015 | Grandma | |
| September 9, 2015 | Coming Home | |
| October 16, 2015 | Truth | |
| November 14, 2015 | Merchants of Doubt | |
| December 18, 2015 | Son of Saul | |
| March 18, 2016 | The Bronze | |
| March 25, 2016 | I Saw the Light | |
| April 1, 2016 | Miles Ahead | |
| April 22, 2016 | The Meddler | Co-production with Stage 6 Films and Anonymous Content |
| May 20, 2016 | Maggie's Plan | |
| July 29, 2016 | Equity | |
| November 2, 2016 | The Eagle Huntress | |
| November 11, 2016 | Elle | |
| December 9, 2016 | The Comedian | |
| December 21, 2016 | Julieta | |
| December 25, 2016 | Toni Erdmann | |
| January 20, 2017 | The Red Turtle | |
| February 10, 2017 | Land of Mine | |
| April 14, 2017 | Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer | |
| May 12, 2017 | Paris Can Wait | |
| June 16, 2017 | Maudie | |
| June 30, 2017 | 13 Minutes | |
| July 28, 2017 | Brigsby Bear | |
| September 29, 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | |
| October 27, 2017 | Novitiate | |
| November 24, 2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Co-production with Frenesy Film Company, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment and Water's End Productions. Warner Bros. Pictures distributed in Italy on January 25, 2018 |
| December 22, 2017 | Happy End | |
| December 29, 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | |
| February 2, 2018 | A Fantastic Woman | |
| February 16, 2018 | Loveless | |
| March 2, 2018 | Foxtrot | |
| March 9, 2018 | The Leisure Seeker | |
| March 23, 2018 | Final Portrait | |
| March 30, 2018 | Ramen Teh | |
| April 13, 2018 | The Rider | |
| May 11, 2018 | The Seagull | |
| June 22, 2018 | Boundaries | |
| July 27, 2018 | Puzzle | |
| August 17, 2018 | The Wife | |
| September 14, 2018 | American Chaos | |
| October 10, 2018 | The Happy Prince | |
| November 2, 2018 | Maria by Callas | |
| December 14, 2018 | Capernaum | |
| December 28, 2018 | Stan & Ollie | |
| January 25, 2019 | Never Look Away | |
| February 15, 2019 | Ruben Brandt, Collector | |
| March 22, 2019 | Sunset | |
| April 26, 2019 | The White Crow | |
| May 10, 2019 | All Is True | |
| May 31, 2019 | The Fall of the American Empire | |
| June 28, 2019 | Maiden | |
| July 19, 2019 | David Crosby: Remember My Name | |
| August 9, 2019 | After the Wedding | |
| August 16, 2019 | Aquarela | |
| September 20, 2019 | Where's My Roy Cohn? | |
| October 4, 2019 | Pain and Glory | |
| October 25, 2019 | Frankie | |
| December 25, 2019 | The Song of Names |
2020s
| Release Date | Title |
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| January 31, 2020 | The Traitor |
| February 28, 2020 | Greed |
| March 6, 2020 | The Burnt Orange Heresy |
| November 13, 2020 | The Climb |
| January 22, 2021 | The Human Factor |
Future releases
| Release Date | Title |
|---|---|
| February 12, 2021 | French Exit |
| February 26, 2021 | The Father |
| March 5, 2021 | The Human Voice |
| The Truffle Hunters | |
| May 21, 2021 | I Carry You with Me |
| Mid 2021 | Nine Days |
| TBA | 12 Mighty Orphans |
| TBA | Carmen |
| TBA | The Duke |
| TBA | Jockey |
| TBA | John Prine: Hello in There |
| TBA | Julia |
| TBA | Mothering Sunday |
| TBA | Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams |
See also
- Mongrel Media, the exclusive theatrical Canadian distributor for Sony Pictures Classics films
References
- "Sony Pictures Classics Bosses Shop Cannes Quality". ABC News. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
- Thompson, Anne (October 17, 2006). "Sony Pictures Classics at 15". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
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 like Crouching 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 - "Sony Pictures Classics – About Us". SonyClassics.com.
- Pond, Steve (November 16, 2009). "Sony Classics' Embarrassment of Oscar Riches". The Wrap. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
It doesn't release blockbusters or Best Picture winners, but its understated business plans reduce risk and keep it in business.
- Kaufman, Anthony (January 29, 2008). "PARK CITY '08 | Sundance Buying Spree Stirs Talk; Sony Classics Adds "Baghead," "River," and "Wackness" to '08 Slate". Indiewire. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
As Bernard explained, 'We're not looking for home runs; we're looking for singles and doubles.' [...] The tortoise-rather-than-the-hare strategy helped the company capture movies that were under the radar of buyers, and as Bernard argued, even sellers.
- "Duncan Jones is Unhappy About Moon – Thompson on Hollywood". Indiewire. April 1, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-06-04. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
SPC had nothing to do with the DVD release, which Jones is unhappy about.
- Ross, Matt (February 6, 2006). "Translating foreign pix to U.S. hits: SPC finds creative solutions to bring home best in overseas fare". Variety.
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