EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Sony Pictures EVP of Production Palak Patel is leaving the Culver City lot for a new gig.
Once we hear about that, we’ll update you. Patel has been at Sony for the last ten years, and played a key role in the $1.8 billion grossing Venom franchise as well as Morbius.
Patel came to Sony in August 2015 as part of a motion picture group realignment by Chairman Tom Rothman and then Sony Pictures Entertainment Group president Doug Belgrad.
Patel came in to Columbia Pictures as its new EVP of Production from Joe Roth’s company, Roth Films, where he served as President of Production.
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