Michael
Lynton Chairman and CEO
Sony Pictures Entertainment
May 2007
WS:
How important are the international businesses, the channels,
the local productions and the distribution of movies and television
product to Sony Pictures?
WS:
During an interview we did with Howard Stringer [the chairman
and CEO of Sony Corporation] a few years ago, he was down on the
network model of producing TV series and more bullish on the cable
model. Is producing for cable more economic, or are you open to
producing for whomever will take your shows?
WS:How do you decide in a given year how many movies are going
to be franchise movies—because those are important for a lot
of economic reasons—and how many instead are going to be “original”
movies, not based on something that already exists?
