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Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has struck a partnership with UK newspaper the Guardian.

The deal will see SPE handed unique first rights to the complete vary of the Guardian’s international journalism to develop video content material. SPE could have entry to The Guardian’s present and growing information tales, and to the Guardian archive, containing 200 years of historical past throughout articles, blogs, columns, movies and podcasts. The settlement, brokered by Curtis Brown, shall be overseen by a brand new govt workforce appointed by SPE and the Guardian.

The Guardian already has three possibility offers in place with SPE that shall be introduced quickly. It additionally has offers in place with the BBC, Netflix and Sky, and gained the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short two years in the past for Colette.

The collaboration spans the entire of SPE’s tv manufacturing teams, from its U.S. scripted and nonfiction tv divisions, to worldwide manufacturing, which incorporates the likes of The Crown maker Left Bank, His Dark Materials producer Bad Wolf and sports activities producer Whisper. As effectively as tv, the settlement consists of SPE’s characteristic movie division – labels resembling 3000 Pictures, Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and Screen Gems.

“To be able to draw on the Guardian’s extraordinary journalism, past, present and future, to create a new generation of dramas, documentaries and movies, is an incredibly exciting opportunity for us at Sony Pictures,” mentioned Sony Pictures Television President of International Production Wayne Garvie.

“We are continually seeking stories that have a distinctive and creative spirit, and connect with audiences the world over, and the Guardian team certainly brings those qualities through their top-notch journalism.”