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Article: Spain reign at an end: Sony moves Euro HQ from Madrid to Berlin.(World News)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- October 22, 2007
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Sony Pictures Entertainment has suspended pic production at Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas, its Madrid-based local production HQ for Europe, triggering the departure of longtime Sony exec Iona de Macedo.
As senior veep of European production, de Macedo oversaw Sony's local efforts, working out of the Madrid office.
The pullback from Spain reflects Sony's new production priorities for Europe.
Following the appointment this April of Deborah Schindler as prexy of Sony's newly branded Intl. Motion Picture Production Group, SPE is targeting emerging markets in Europe, such as Russia.
"As part of the development and growth of our ...