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Sony Pictures Classics at 15


October 17, 2006 Led by its two co-presidents, Texans-turned-New Yorkers Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, SPC has been "profitable every year," according to Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton, who adds, "They have managed to outlive everyone else in their area." Every year since 1992, SPC has released a slate of quality films driven by reviews and sustained by word of mouth, earning a reputation as a champion of foreign fare in particular. SPC has hewn to the paradigm Barker and Bernard established in 1981 at United Artists, when that studio tapped them to create one of the first specialty divisions.

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