Sony Entertainment

Sony Entertainment, Inc. is a global entertainment company established in 2012. It focuses on most of Sony's motion picture, television and music businesses. It is a subsidiary of the Japanese Sony Corporation, managed by Sony's American subsidiary, Sony Corporation of America.

In terms of revenue, as of 2019, it is currently the world's 6th largest entertainment company at $14.1B, alongside The Walt Disney Company ($55.13B), Comcast (inc. NBCUniversal $33B), AT&T (inc. WarnerMedia $31.27B), ViacomCBS ($27.352B), Bertelsmann (€17.96b/$20.30b) and Vivendi (€13b/$14.70b).

History
On March 30, 2012, Michael Lynton, co-chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), was named as CEO of Sony Corporation of America to oversee all of Sony's global entertainment businesses and Nicole Seligman, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Sony Corporation, was named as president. On April 9, 2013, Lynton renewed his contract with the company.

On February 18, 2016, Seligman resigned after 15 years working for Sony and remained with the company until the end of March.

On January 13, 2017, Lynton announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Sony Entertainment and chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment to be chairman for Snap Inc. He was later replaced by Anthony Vinciquerra on June 1, 2017, after he was named as chairman/CEO of SPE.

It was reported in December of 2016 by multiple news outlets that Sony was considering restructuring its U.S. operations by merging its TV & film business, Sony Pictures Entertainment, with its gaming business, Sony Interactive Entertainment. According to the reports, such a restructuring would have placed Sony Pictures under Sony Interactive's CEO, Andrew House, though House wouldn't have taken over the day-to-day operations of the film studio. According to one report, Sony was set to make a final decision on the possibility of the merger of the TV, film, & gaming businesses by the end of its fiscal year in March of the following year (2017). However, judging by Sony's activity in 2017, the rumoured merger never materialized.

On July 17, 2019, Sony announced that they will merge Sony Music Entertainment and Sony/ATV Music Publishing to form the Sony Music Group. The merger was finalized on August 1, 2019.

Sony Pictures Entertainment

 * Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group (Film)
 * Columbia Pictures
 * TriStar Pictures
 * TriStar Productions
 * Sony Pictures Classics
 * Screen Gems
 * Sony Pictures Animation
 * Sony Pictures Imageworks
 * Sony Pictures Releasing
 * Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group
 * Destination Films
 * Stage 6 Films
 * Affirm Films
 * Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 * Sony Wonder
 * Genius Brands (equity stake)


 * Sony Pictures Television (Television)
 * Califon Productions, Inc.
 * Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
 * 2waytraffic
 * Crackle Plus (a joint venture with Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment)
 * CPT Holdings, Inc.
 * TriStar Television
 * Culver Entertainment
 * Embassy Row
 * Starling Productions
 * Huaso
 * Lean-M Producers Center
 * Teleset (50%)
 * Fable Pictures
 * Floresta
 * Left Bank Pictures (majority stake)
 * Electric Ray
 * Stellify Media
 * Playmaker Media
 * Funimation (95% joint venture with Aniplex)
 * Funimation Films
 * FunimationNow
 * Manga Entertainment (UK)

Sony Music Group

 * Sony Music Entertainment
 * Columbia Records
 * Epic Records
 * RCA Records
 * Arista Records
 * The Orchard
 * Syco (50%)


 * Sony/ATV Music Publishing
 * EMI Music Publishing
 * APM Music
 * Extreme Music
 * Hickory Records
 * EMI Production Music