Hollywood Strikes Showed Execs Mayim Bialik Not Essential On 'Jeopardy!'
Wednesday, 20 December 2023 Mayim Bialik stepping away from "Jeopardy!" in solidarity with striking writers showed Sony executives they didn't need 2 hosts for the quiz show, and that's why they moved on ... TMZ has learned. Sony Studios sources tell TMZ ... bosses at Sony…
Sony Names New PlayStation Co-CEOs , Following Jim Ryan’s Departure.
Beginning June 1, Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino will lead PlayStation, The Verge reports.
Beginning June 1, Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino will lead PlayStation, The Verge reports.
Hulst will oversee Sony Interactive Entertainment's (SIE) studio business group.
while Hideaki will helm
SIE's platform business group.
Both men will report to Hiroki Totoki,
Sony's CFO and SIE chairman.
Hulst's current role is PlayStation studios chief.
Nishino has held several positions
at Sony for over 20 years. .
PlayStation has never before had co-CEOs.
The announcement comes as 900 PlayStation employees were laid off earlier this year.
Last quarter, Sony lowered its
predictions for PS5 console sales. .
Earlier this year, Totoki discussed the
possibility of growing PlayStation
games outside of consoles.
In the past, we wanted to
popularize console... but
there is a synergy to it. , Hiroki Totoki, Sony's CFO and SIE chairman, via earnings call.
So if you have strong first-party content,
not only with our console but also other
platforms like computers, first-party can
be grown with multi platforms and that
can help operating profit to improve, Hiroki Totoki, Sony's CFO and SIE chairman, via earnings call
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Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes are teaming up for the long-awaited next sequel to '28 Years Later.' The trio have been cast in the follow up to the original 2002 film which centered on a man played by Cillian Murphy who wakes up in the hospital to find the UK overtaken by a zombie plague. 'Civil War' filmmaker Alex Garland, who penned the script, is back to write what is intended to be a trilogy of films for Sony. Danny Boyle is also back in the director's chair for the feature.
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Austin Butler is teaming up with Darren Aronofsky for his next feature. Hot off his creepy villain turn in 'Dune: Part Two,' Butler is set to next star in the Aronofsky crime thriller 'Caught Stealing.' Acquired by Sony and based on the book by Charlie Huston, the film "follows Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, as he's unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of '90s NYC."
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Mayim Bialik is sharing her thoughts on Investigation Discovery’s 'Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV' docuseries. On a recent episode of 'The Breakdown' podcast, Bialik discussed the allegations in the doc with former child stars Christy Carlson Romano and Jenna von Oÿ and noted how the alleged experiences women faced at Nickelodeon while working under Dan Schneider - detailed in the five-part series – weren't much different than "things that I heard about on other sets during our time."
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Jim Parsons is revealing what it was like reprising his 'Big Bang Theory' role for the 'Young Sheldon' series finale. Parsons and Mayim Bialik will both appear in the prequel's final episode, which is set to air May 16th on CBS. The episode will mark the first time the two stars have reunited on screen since 'The Big Bang Theory' ended in May 2019.
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