Sony
Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE)
MPAA member company:
yes
Film labels:
Sony Pictures, Sony Classics, Columbia, TriStar, Screen Gems
Other holdings:
Sony cameras; PlayStation; Xperia smartphones and tablets, Sony televisions and music devices; Sony Music and Sony Pictures Television (production)
Top executive:
President and CEO Kazuo Hirai
Summary:
Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio division of Japan-based Sony Corporation, contributed $8.9 billion (12%) to the parent company’s $75.2 billion revenue total in 2018. Since 2002, 56 percent of Sony's youth-rated films have featured smoking, the most of any major studio. Sony published its first internal policy on tobacco depictions at the end of 2012. The share of Sony's PG-13 films with smoking dropped below 50%, for the first time, in 2016 but the share of all Sony films with tobacco has since rebounded.
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| 50% | 100% | 3 | 30 | 5 | 333 | 0 | ||
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| 36% | 75% | 9 | 154 | 655 | 7,073 | 2 | ||
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| 39% | 92% | 8 | 80 | 1,119 | 8,714 | 2 | ||
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| 35% | 83% | 9 | 77 | 3,039 | 15,194 | 3 | ||
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| 43% | 82% | 10 | 55 | 8,941 | 27,049 | 13 | ||
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| 55% | 74% | 14 | 41 | 32,568 | 32,279 | 28 | ||
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