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Impressions From A NYC Sony Event

Impressions From A NYC Sony Event(View Comments)

August 27, 2010

Hello fellow readers, here is a scoop of information about Sony Innovation get-together that occurred in NYC. I’d say this is a pretty rare opportunity that bloggers and Sony enthusiasts who attended the event got to experience at the Sony USA Headquarters on 550 Madison Ave. This gig was hosted on the 35th floor at [...]

Impressions From A NYC Sony Event
Sony Insider is Going to NYC

Sony Insider is Going to NYC

Yup, you heard it right. We have visited San Diego Sony Electronics Headquarters earlier this summer and tomorrow we are heading to New York City where Sony will be hosting a special event for those who are enthusiastic about the brand and its achievements. We are also hearing Sony will be showing some new fall [...]

The Essential Lena Horne Is Scintillating And Seductive

The Essential Lena Horne Is Scintillating And Seductive

Sony Masterworks released The Essential Lena Horne today, which spans thirty years of the legendary artist’s career, from her first recordings in 1941 to her live recordings of the 1950s and ’60s. This 39-song, 2-CD collection of golden standards includes six tracks previously unavailable on CD and begins and ends with irreplaceable versions of her signature [...]

Inside Job Movie Exposes The Truth Behind American Financial Crisis

Inside Job Movie Exposes The Truth Behind American Financial Crisis

Inside Job is a 2010 documentary from Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), and is the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through [...]

Conversation With The Designers Of Sony’s make.believe Campaign

Conversation With The Designers Of Sony’s make.believe Campaign

At IFA in 2009 and then at CES in 2010, Sony took the opportunity of international electronics shows to announce the group’s first unified brand message, make.believe, to be used globally and unveil animated 2D and 3D logos. Meet the designers whose teamwork and enterprising spirit brought the logos to life in an interview courtesy [...]

Interview With Sony Electronics SVP Of Corporate Marketing Stuart Redsun

Interview With Sony Electronics SVP Of Corporate Marketing Stuart Redsun

Stuart Redsun is a senior vice president for Sony Electronics Inc. He joined Sony’s corporate marketing team in June 2006 to guide marketing initiatives, reporting to the company’s Chief Marketing Officer Mike Fasulo. Redsun is responsible for designing and delivering an overarching brand strategy in support of the U.S. electronics business, coordinating specific marketing plans [...]

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger In September

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger In September

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 British-Spanish-American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in the USA. The latest Woody Allen film, set for release on September 22nd, stars Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, and Naomi Watts. The film follows a [...]

Sony’s Q1 Earnings Announcement

Sony’s Q1 Earnings Announcement

If you invest in Sony or hold any shares of that company, here is an interesting listen you can tune into. To view PowerPoint presentation and enjoy the audio make sure you have a Windows Media Plug-in installed. Q and A section can be more interesting if you do not care about money talk. All [...]

Len Wiseman To Direct “Total Recall”

Len Wiseman To Direct “Total Recall”

Len Wiseman is in final negotiations to direct Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall. The film will be a new, contemporized adaptation of Total Recall, which was based on the story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Kurt Wimmer is writing the screenplay. Neal H. Moritz will produce through his Original Film [...]

Interview with Adam Sessler

Interview with Adam Sessler

Adam and I talk about Sony’s strength’s, weaknesses, and 3D TV. If you watch G4 then you know who Adam Sessler is. Whether it’s during X-Play, E3 Coverage, or Comic-Con, his witty, entertaining, and extremely articulate comments on gaming and the industry are a staple at G4TV. What you might not know is that besides [...]

The Social Network Movie Coming Soon

The Social Network Movie Coming Soon

Sony Pictures (Columbia) is steadily increasing publicity for The Social Network, which is based on Ben Mezrich’s Book: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal. The more I see about this I feel that the movie will be most likely known amongst society as “The Facebook Movie.” [...]

Phil Molyneux To Become President/COO Of Sony Electronics USA

Phil Molyneux To Become President/COO Of Sony Electronics USA

Phil Molyneux, a 23-year veteran of Sony’s European electronics operation, has been named President and Chief Operating Officer, Sony Electronics Inc. (SEL), in San Diego, CA. At the same time, Stan Glasgow has been named to the newly created position of Senior Advisor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, Sony Corporation of America (SCA). Both announcements were [...]

Cage Returning To Ghost Rider

Cage Returning To Ghost Rider

Nicolas Cage officially announced he will be resuming the role of Johnny Blaze. After speculation that to maintain rights to the character the film might proceed without him, Nicolas Cage shocked everyone by announcing to Craig Ferguson the deal had been signed: The first film nearly doubled the production budget, making nearly $230 million dollars [...]

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Looking to Mirror Apple Profit Model

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Looking to Mirror Apple Profit Model

Hiroaki Kobayashi, marketing director of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is looking to generate revenue by mirroring Apple’s profit model. Hiroaki Kobayashi recently spoke at the 2010 Android Bazaar and Conference in Tokyo. Of the many things he discussed, was the Apple business model and how their profit ratio is at times as high as [...]

Growing Up Proves Profitable

Growing Up Proves Profitable

Grown Ups does well at the box office despite competition. Now that the dust has settled, Grown Ups held it’s own despite having the stiff competition of Toy Story 3, Knight & Day, and Sony’s own The Karate Kid. Grown Ups opened to approximately 5,100 screens at 3,534 locations it’s launch on June 26th. The [...]

Seth Rogen Is The Green Hornet

Seth Rogen Is The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet is an upcoming 2011 superhero action/adventure film directed by Michel Gondry. The film is scheduled to be released on January 14th, 2011 and will be released in both in RealD 3D and IMAX 3D, as well as in 2D. Hornet has a $130 million budget and will be distributed by Columbia Pictures. [...]

Sony Eco-Innovation

Sony Eco-Innovation

The “Sonyverse” as I describe it touches so much in the electronic, film and tech world. But what you might find surprising is just how green a corporation Sony truly is. For over 50 years, Sony has been developing cutting edge products and services that enrich and bring excitement to consumers around the world. As [...]

One on One with Patrick Seybold

One on One with Patrick Seybold

Patrick Seybold, Sony’s Senior Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media was kind enough to allow me to chat with him after Sony’s excellent showing at E3. Mr. Seybold and I discuss PlayStation Move, PSP, the impact of social media, and Kevin Butler. Sony had an excellent showing at E3 and redefined what the PlayStation brand [...]

The Karate Kid Is A Huge Success

The Karate Kid Is A Huge Success

The combination of Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson and Harold Zwart proves to be a winner for Sony. With the The Karate Kid having made it’s way through the theaters, initial estimates show the film doing exceptionally well at the box office. According to reports the overall production budget for the film was [...]

43rd Sony Aquarium Event Starts July 19th

43rd Sony Aquarium Event Starts July 19th

The inhabitants of the Churaumi Sea are back again at Sony’s annual event that runs from July 19 – August 31 in Ginza. The Sony themed event takes place at the OPUS Communication Zone  on the 8th floor at their building in Ginza. Inside the hall Sony has 4K SXRD projector, [SXRD-R110], and a 200 [...]

Andrew Garfield Will Be Peter Parker In The Next Spider-Man Movie

Andrew Garfield Will Be Peter Parker In The Next Spider-Man Movie

Andrew Garfield (born in 1983) is an actor who has appeared in radio, theater, film, and television, including the 2007 movies Lions for Lambs and Boy A, and 2009′s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Sony Pictures official twitter has just updated with the breaking news that Andrew Garfield will be Peter Parker in the next [...]

Lebanon Could Be The Greatest Tank Movie Ever Made

Lebanon Could Be The Greatest Tank Movie Ever Made

Lebanon is an Israeli war film directed by Samuel Maoz. It won the Leone d’Oro at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, becoming the first Israeli-produced film to have won that honor. The film has not yet had a wide release, but shall debut in American theaters courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics on August 6th. [...]

John Legend & The Roots Collaborate To Engage Listeners With Wake Up!

John Legend & The Roots Collaborate To Engage Listeners With Wake Up!

Musical powerhouses John Legend & The Roots are presenting fans with a fiery new offering, Wake Up! The upcoming CD, being released by Sony Music on September 21, 2010, will feature soulful music from the 60′s and 70′s all with an underlying theme of awareness, engagement and consciousness — effectively telling listeners to Wake Up! [...]

The New Sony Blog

The New Sony Blog

Several years ago, Sony SVP of Corporate Communications Rick Clancy (now retired) launched a bold new initiative for Sony Electronics USA – a blog. When the blog debuted, very few consumer electronic companies had an official online presence. It was a bold gamble; social media was still in its infancy and many companies were still [...]

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer’s Salary Last Year Was $4.5M

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer’s Salary Last Year Was $4.5M

The life of a CEO is not a simple one – in fact, one does not have to think very hard about how difficult it has been for Sony’s CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, throughout his last five years of serving in that role for the Japanese company. Sir Howard walked into a dream that turned [...]

Men In Black 3D

Men In Black 3D

Men in Black III-D (aka Men in Black 3, MIB3D) will be the third installment of the film’s franchise. It will be released in 3D by Sony Pictures and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the first two installments. The third was originally based on a script which takes place primarily in the year 1969 [...]

Sony Moves Hungarian Blu-ray/DVD Player Factory To Malaysia

Sony Moves Hungarian Blu-ray/DVD Player Factory To Malaysia

Sony announced that it will discontinue production at its Hungarian manufacturing site in Gödöllö, Hungary (established in 1996 and has 540 employees) as part of its initiatives to improve its profitability of overall business and efficiency in manufacturing. Sony Hungária Kft.,Gödöllö TEC which manufactures Blu-ray Disc players and DVD recorders, is scheduled to cease operations [...]

Sony Ericsson USA Headquarters Coming To Atlanta In July

Sony Ericsson USA Headquarters Coming To Atlanta In July

Sony Ericsson has officially signed the new lease for its new Americas headquarters in Atlanta. The office, located in the Terminus 200 Building in the Buckhead section of Atlanta, will be the hub for the company’s regional operations in North America and Latin America as it delivers an exciting new portfolio of phones to the [...]

The Karate Kid Is The Kung Fu Kid

The Karate Kid Is The Kung Fu Kid

The Karate Kid is an upcoming 2010 martial arts film remake of the epic 1984 film of the same name. Directed by Harald Zwart, the remake stars Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith) and Jackie Chan. Principal photography for the film took place in Beijing, China; filming began around July 2009 and ended on mid [...]

Lin Yu Chun Is Taiwan’s Susan Boyle

Lin Yu Chun Is Taiwan’s Susan Boyle

Lin Yu Chun (Chinese: 林育羣; pinyin: Lín Yǜ Qǘn; born March 9, 1986 in Taipei) is a singer, who gained fame by appearing on a Taiwanese talent show, Super Star Avenue (超級星光大道), singing “I Will Always Love You” (originally by Dolly Parton) in the style of Whitney Houston’s cover version. He is well-known for his [...]

CFO/EDP Nobuyuki Oneda Retiring After 41 Years Of Working For Sony

CFO/EDP Nobuyuki Oneda Retiring After 41 Years Of Working For Sony

Nobuyuki Oneda (pictured far right) currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Sony Corporation and has been its Corporate Executive Officer since 2004. He is primarily responsible for Corporate Planning and Control, Accounting, Tax, Finance, Investor Relations, and Disclosure Controls. On June 18th, he will retire and current Deputy CFO, Masaru [...]

Want To Get Low? Buy A Funeral

Want To Get Low? Buy A Funeral

Get Low is a film starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. The film is written by Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell, and directed by Aaron Schneider. It also stars Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs, Andrea Powell, Rebecca Grant, and Scott Cooper. The film is slated for a July 30th, [...]

Sony President/COO Stan Glasgow To Give Keynote At SID DisplaySearch Conference

Sony President/COO Stan Glasgow To Give Keynote At SID DisplaySearch Conference

The Society for Information Display (SID), the leading global organization dedicated to the advancement of electronic-display technology, and DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in display market research, has noted that Sony Electronics’ President and Chief Operating Officer Stan Glasgow will deliver the keynote address during the SID DisplaySearch Business Conference, which will be held during Display [...]

Sony Stores Coming to the USA

Sony Stores Coming to the USA

Yea, you heard it, SonyStyle retail stores that you may have come across in the US, conveniently located in the shopping malls will be renamed to Sony stores, that simple! I am a bit surprised by this move to rename its retail stores, but I guess Sony as a whole is being unified in many [...]

Ghost Rider Sequel May Proceed Without Cage

Ghost Rider Sequel May Proceed Without Cage

The Ghost Rider sequel is moving forward, but it may not be with Nicolas Cage. New York Magazine’s Vulture section states that to retain the rights to Ghost Rider, Columbia  may need to be in production by November 14, 2010. If Columbia can gain an extension from Marvel, then Cage could still be involved. If [...]

Christina Aguilera Goes Bionic In “Not Myself Tonight”

Christina Aguilera Goes Bionic In “Not Myself Tonight”

“Not Myself Tonight” is a new song by the Sony Music (RCA) recording artist Christina Aguilera. The song serves as the lead single from her forthcoming fourth studio album, Bionic. The track was written and produced by hip hop writer and producer Ester Dean and Polow da Don. The song, along with its accompanying music [...]

Sony Electronics HQ In San Diego Awarded LEED Gold Certification

Sony Electronics HQ In San Diego Awarded LEED Gold Certification

The U.S. Green Building Council Institute recently announced the newest U.S. facility to earn the prestigious – the Sony Electronics (SEL) headquarters building in San Diego. The LEED certification system is the foremost program for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings. “When we began laying out initial plans for our headquarters, we [...]

Taylor Swift Is The New Face Of Sony Cyber-shot Cameras

Taylor Swift Is The New Face Of Sony Cyber-shot Cameras

Taylor Swift, the lovely Grammy Award-winning country pop singer, songwriter and actress is the latest addition to Sony’s never ending cast of celebrity endorsers. We figured it wouldn’t be much longer before Swift popped up on the radar again after CEO and President Sir Howard Stringer introduced her at the beginning of Sony’s CES 2010 press conference. [...]

Sony Ericsson Appoints William Glaser As New CFO

Sony Ericsson Appoints William Glaser As New CFO

Sony Ericsson recently announced that William ‘Bill’ A Glaser, Jr, former Sony Corporation Vice President and Head of Sony Group Risk Office, has joined Sony Ericsson and is appointed Chief Financial Officer effective today. In his new role Bill Glaser will succeed Ulf Lilja, who will return to Ericsson on 31 July. Bill Glaser will [...]

“The Other Guys” Protect And Absurd This Summer

“The Other Guys” Protect And Absurd This Summer

The Other Guys is an upcoming action-comedy film directed and co-written by Adam McKay and distributed by Sony’s Columbia Pictures. The film stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and co-stars Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Anne Heche and Derek Jeter. The film is expected to be released August 6, [...]

Want to Be a Sony Blogger?

Want to Be a Sony Blogger?

Hey all Sony followers, fans and just those who enjoy Sony quality and design. Sony is offering a very interesting and exciting opportunity to become a Sony blogger at SonyStyle and snatch a couple of amazing prizes (like Sony’s XPERIA X10, woot!?) as well as travel to South Africa to attend the FIFA 2010 World [...]

FIFA And Sony Set To Create Global 3D Experience Of The FIFA World Cup

FIFA And Sony Set To Create Global 3D Experience Of The FIFA World Cup

Following the initial joint announcement to make the world’s first FIFA World Cup available in 3D, FIFA and Sony unveiled insights into what the football fans around the globe can expect from this innovative undertaking to add a third dimension to the football viewing experience. Coinciding with the rapidly growing consumer interest in 3D fueled [...]

Sony’s “Road To Zero” Environmental Plan Wants Zero Footprint By 2050

Sony’s “Road To Zero” Environmental Plan Wants Zero Footprint By 2050

Sony has announced its “Road to Zero” global environmental plan. The plan, which includes a long-term goal of achieving a zero environmental footprint by 2050, uses backcasting methods to set specific mid-term environmental targets for the next five years in line with that goal. Sony’s definition of zero environmental footprint is not only limited to [...]

Sony Pictures Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton Calls For Healthier Theater Snacks

Sony Pictures Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton Calls For Healthier Theater Snacks

Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton spoke last month at ShoWest, the nation’s largest convention for the movie theater industry, and basically urged for healthier snacks at their concession stands in addition to their traditional offerings of candy, popcorn and soda. He noted that “adding healthier options to your existing menu is the [...]

Live Action ‘The Smurfs’ Movie Begins Production in New York

Live Action ‘The Smurfs’ Movie Begins Production in New York

Principal photography began Friday, March 26, in New York on Columbia Pictures’/Sony Pictures Animation’s hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs, it was announced by Bob Osher, president of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, Hannah Minghella, president of Sony Pictures Animation and Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures. We wrote about the movie last summer, [...]

Sony Forms Strategic Alliance With Hon Hai For European LCD TV Production

Sony Forms Strategic Alliance With Hon Hai For European LCD TV Production

As part of its initiative to improve the profitability of its LCD TV business, Sony announced a new strategic alliance with Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (“Hon Hai”) for the production of LCD TVs for the European region. Based on this agreement, Sony will sell to the Hon Hai a portion of its [...]

Sony Pictures Entertainment Sells Off Interests In HBO Latin America

Sony Pictures Entertainment Sells Off Interests In HBO Latin America

Sony Pictures Entertainment sold a portion of its investment and certain ancillary rights in its HBO Latin America joint venture, which owns and operates certain premium pay television businesses in Latin America, to an affiliate of Time Warner. Prior to this transaction, SPE owned approximately 29% of this joint venture and, after this transaction, will [...]

Sony Partners With United Nations And JICA To Fight HIV/AIDS

Sony Partners With United Nations And JICA To Fight HIV/AIDS

Sony is partnering with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to bolster the global fight to end poverty by 2015, with a special focus on the campaign to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS. Stopping the rise of HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases is one [...]

Eat, Pray, Love With Julia Roberts Coming Late Summer

Eat, Pray, Love With Julia Roberts Coming Late Summer

Eat, Pray, Love is the title of an upcoming film based on the memoir of the same name by American author Elizabeth Gilbert, co-written and directed by Ryan Murphy. It began filming in August 2009 and will be released in the USA courtesy of Sony Pictures on August 13th, 2010. Filming locations for the film [...]

Superb Violinist Ray Chen Signs With Sony Classical

Superb Violinist Ray Chen Signs With Sony Classical

Violinist Ray Chen, who captivated the classical music scene with his consecutive victories at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2009 (video below) and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition in 2008, has signed an exclusive multi-year recording contract with Sony Classical. In February of this year, Mr. Chen signed a worldwide general management contract with CAMI Music. [...]

Venezuela Cuts Sony’s Power Off

Venezuela Cuts Sony’s Power Off

Venezuela’s Electricidad de Caracas CA, which provides electricity to the capital Caracas, will suspend power to 80 businesses tomorrow for 24 hours. The businesses, including Sony’s local unit, Sony de Venezuela SA, failed to reduce electricity consumption by 20 percent or more as ordered by President Hugo Chavez. He issued the decree to avoid a [...]


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