Sony Pictures Promotes Louise Heseltine To SVP Motion Picture Group Corp Comms

Sony Pictures Entertainment has upped Louise Heseltine to SVP, Corporate Communications in the Motion Picture Group.

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Heseltine will continue to report to Tahra Grant, EVP, Chief Communications Officer, who was promoted earlier this year.

Heseltine joined the Culver City, CA lot in 2020 as VP, Corporate Communications, Motion Picture Group. Over the past 4 years she has strategized and implemented film positioning and comms plans, and drove press efforts for the studio’s ancillary businesses.

In a company email, Grant said “Louise’s analytical grit and global sensibility has long supported our movie campaigns and our film business more broadly. She has navigated complicated industry obstacles with deftness and sensitivity, and is well-positioned to broaden her corporate communications work for the motion picture group.”

Among the theatrical releases Heseltine has worked on at the studio are Uncharted , Gran Turismo , Where the Crawdads Sing , Bullet Train , Spider-Man: No Way Home , Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse , No Hard Feelings , Bad Boys Ride or Die and The Garfield Movie .

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Heseltine previously held senior publicity positions at Endeavor Content and IM Global, where she led communications strategies and oversaw international PR for film and TV series including the Russo brothers’ Mosul ; The Peanut Butter Falcon ; BBC America’s Emmy and Golden Globe nominated series Killing Eve ; Mel Gibson’s Academy Award nominated Hacksaw Ridge ; Martin Scorsese’s Silence ; Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool ; and Oliver Stone’s The Putin Interviews .

Prior to IM Global, she worked at Maxine Leonard PR, where she repped production and international sales companies, including Exclusive Media, See-Saw Films, Miramax, Film4, German distributor SquareOne Entertainment and Voltage Pictures, and prior to that, the American Film Institute, where she managed comms across key AFI events such as AFI FEST, AFI Life Achievement Award, and AFI DOCS.

Prior to those gigs, Heseltine co-founded PR agency, Limelight PR, where she repped such Australian clients as Matchbox Films, Emu Creek Productions, Cascade Films, City of Melbourne, IMG/AEI, Melbourne Museum, Hardie Grant Publishing, SBS TV, ABC TV and the Melbourne International Film Festival.

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