Sony’s SVP of Corporate Communications for the Motion Picture Group, Tahra Grant, has been upped to EVP, Chief Communcations Officer for Sony Pictures Entertainment.Grant succeeds Robert Lawson in a top Corp Comm post that reports directly to Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra. As we told you back in February, Lawson was promoted to SVP, Corporate Communications for the entire Sony Group and is moving to the conglom’s HQ in Tokyo, Japan.Grant arrived at the studio in 2016 and within a year was promoted to SVP of Media Relations. Grant worked with Lawson at New York-based PR firm Rubenstein Communications. During Grant’s run at Sony Pictures, she’s streamlined and sharpened corp comm ops, handling crisis and issues with deft skills during Covid and the double strikes, before and after. Grant is known for assessing promptly entertainment business situations as they arise, as well as advance strategizing for them. She’s worked on several Sony blockbusters including Oscar winners Once Upon A Time in… Hollywood, Little Women, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (and its Oscar nominated sequel), as well as tentpoles such as the Jumanji franchise, Anyone But You, the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man trilogy, the Venom franchise, The Woman King, the Ghostbusters franchise, The Equalizer franchise, A Man Called Otto, Peter Rabbit, and countless others.At Rubenstein, Grant repped prominent New York institutions and clients across film, television, and arts and culture in corporate communications, publicity, and broad strategic counsel capacities including the Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Enterprises, the Metropolitan Opera, The Hunger Games franchise, and many others.
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