By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Drew Reed has just joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as EVP of Literary Affairs, where he will oversee all literary IP acquisitions for feature adaptation at the studio, effective May 1.
He will He will support all SPE film labels. Reed comes to SPE after a 17-year run at Fox, where he created the department and served as EVP of Literary Affairs for nearly two decades.
With the recent merger of Fox and Disney, he has done the same for Disney’s live action group, but that studio has shown a limited appetite for books as it has leaned on its silos.
I’d heard that his contract came up, and that this week, several suitors tried to hire him, not surprising as he is considered the gold
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