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Sony Pictures’ Tom Rothman Recalls His New York Indie Roots At Museum Of The Moving Image Honors
Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Tom Rothman recalled his New York indie roots accepting an award at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Along the way he launched and reignited multiple franchises including Spider-Man, Venom and Uncharted and new installments of Jumanji, Ghostbusters,Insidious, Don’t Breathe, Peter Rabbit, Zombieland, Baby Driver and Bad Boys. Directors and producers he has brought to the studio include Greta Gerwig, Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Jason Reitman, Ang Lee, Denzel Washington, David Leitch, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Jon Watts – who was on hand to introduce Rothman. Films and series from his tenure are wide ranging from Titanic, Avatar and Lincoln, Life of Pi, Descendants, Cast Away, Master and Commander, Black Swan, Walk the Line, Juno and Slumdog Millionaire, to The Full Monty, The Devil Wears Prada, Borat, the X-Men series, Little Miss Sunshine, Minority Report, Moulin Rouge, Boys Don’t Cry, Sideways, the Ice Age franchise, Something About Mary, Modern Family, Glee and Homeland.
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