Sony Pictures Entertainment General Counsel Leah Weil to Retire After Nearly 30 Years
09.01.2024 - 21:41
/ variety.com
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Sony Pictures Entertainment general counsel Leah Weil is exiting her role after almost three decades with the company. The longtime senior executive vice president is the studio’s most senior legal advisor with oversight across film and TV production, acquisition and distribution, media networks, digital content creation and distribution, operation of studio facilities and development of new entertainment offerings.
Per Sony Pictures Entertainment chief Tony Vinciquerra’s Tuesday memo to staff, Weil will continue to serve as general counsel for the studio for the next few months and will support a transition to her successor, who has not yet been named. Among her most notable accomplishments at Sony is Weil’s oversight of the landmark deal with Marvel for the rights to Spider-Man, which is still Sony’s most important and valuable IP.
Other highlights of her tenure including leading the restructure of the Mandalay Pictures deal and MGM acquisition in the 1990s, and the more recent acquisitions of Crunchyroll, Industrial Media and Pixomondo, navigating response to the infamous 2014 cyber-attack on Sony, and leading guild negotiations for the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA deals. Weil began at Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1996.
During her time with the company, she has become an MPA board member and been named to Variety’s Power Dealmakers list multiple times, among other accolades. “I am truly lucky to be able to say that I struggled with this decision,” Weil wrote in her own note to Sony staff Tuesday.
“While there has never really been a ‘good’ time to leave it does feel like the right time in my life to make this transition. I will deeply miss being an active part of the community we have
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