Sony Pictures Entertainment Teams With U.K. Newspaper The Guardian to Mine Journalism Content for Adaptation
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and U.K. news media organisation Guardian Media Group, which publishes the left-leaning The Guardian newspaper, have revealed a strategic creative collaboration.
The agreement will see SPE gain exclusive first rights to all of the Guardian’s global journalism, with the aim of developing suitable materials for audio-visual adaptation.
The deal spans the whole of SPE’s television production groups, including U.S. scripted and nonfiction television divisions, to international production.
The latter includes scripted companies Left Bank Pictures (“The Crown”) , Bad Wolf (“His Dark Materials”) and Eleven (“Sex Education”) and unscripted, sport and factual entertainment producers like The Whisper Group.
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