Sony Pictures Entertainment: Expanding into different channels

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Jeffrey Godsick on the company’s future plans for themed entertainment

In April, 2021 Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) announced two major projects – the Columbia Pictures Aquaverse theme and waterpark in Thailand and the opening of a Hotel Transylvania attraction and themed area at Moscow’s Dream Island theme park. These two projects are part of a renewed long-term strategy to expand SPE’s brand into various themed entertainment channels. To learn more about the studio’s strategy, InPark News Editor Joe Kleiman spoke with Jeffrey Godsick, SPE’s Executive Vice President of Global Partnerships and Brand Management.

Godsick is a long-term Hollywood executive with experience at a number of major studios, coming to Sony Pictures Entertainment from 20^th Century Fox, where he was President of Fox Consumer Products. With the additional…