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Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted Louise Heseltine to senior vp of corporate communications.
Heseltine’s new role for the studio’s Motion Picture Group was announced Monday, and she will report to chief communications officer Tahra Grant, who was promoted earlier this year. Heseltine joined Sony in 2020 as vp of corporate communications for the Motion Picture Group, where she worked on film positioning and communications strategy, in addition to leading press plans for the studio’s ancillary businesses.
“Louise’s analytical grit and global sensibility has long supported our movie campaigns and our film business more broadly,” Grant said in a memo to staffers. “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.”
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Heseltine recently worked on Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die and The Garfield Movie. These followed her previous work on such features as 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 and No Hard Feelings.
Prior to joining Sony, Heseltine held senior publicity positions at Endeavor Content and IM Global, where she worked on projects including the Emmy-nominated series Killing Eve and the Oscar-nominated movie Hacksaw Ridge.
Other previous roles for Heseltine include representing production and international sales companies while working at Maxine Leonard PR, and managing corporate communications during her time at the American Film Institute.
Additionally, Heseltine co-founded the publicity agency Limelight PR, handling such Australian clients as Matchbox Films, Emu Creek Productions and Cascade Films.
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