Sony Pictures Entertainment Partners With The Guardian
deadline.comSony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has struck a partnership with UK newspaper The Guardian. The deal will see SPE handed exclusive first rights to the full range of the Guardian’s global journalism to develop video content.
SPE will have access to the Guardian’s current and developing news stories, and to the Guardian archive, containing 200 years of history across articles, blogs, columns, videos and podcasts.
The agreement, brokered by Curtis Brown will be overseen by a new executive team appointed by SPE and the Guardian. The Guardian already has three option deals in place with SPE that will be announced soon.
It also has deals in place with the BBC, Netflix and Sky and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short two years ago for Colette.
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