Sony Eliminates Jobs to Streamline Marketing, Distribution

Sony Pictures, which releases a new installment of the “Hotel Transylvania” film franchise in coming days, is cutting about 5 percent of its global marketing and distribution staff, according to a person familiar with the situation. Movie marketing will be more global and digitally focused, the Culver City, California-based division of Sony Corp. told employees in an internal memo seen by Bloomberg News. “The reorganization will help our department better reflect the realities of how movies are released today, and build the connective tissue needed internally and externally to be effective and efficient,” Josh Greenstein, who heads marketing and distribution for Sony Pictures Entertainment, said in the memo.