Disney Vet Louie Provost joins Sony Pictures as executive vice-president of production

Sony Pictures hired the Director of Veteran Production Louie Provost as executive production vice-president. He will fall under Peter Kang, president of production at Columbia Pictures.

“We are delighted to welcome Louie to the Columbia family. I met her at the start of her career and I watched films defend films that have become global phenomena – offer moments of great films filled with heart. While we strive to find stories and characters that the public will look for on the big screen, we know that Louie will have an immediate and lasting impact,” said Kang on Friday.

Provost has spent the last 15 years and more in Walt Disney Studios, where he has supervised countless successes, more recently “Lilo & Stitch”, live adaptation of the beloved animated function. Released this summer, the film made more than a billion dollars at the world box office.

The other successes during his mandate included “Aladdin”, the Disney Emmy Disney + “Chip” n Dale: Rescue Rangers “and more adaptations of Disney classics as” malefect “(based on the emblematic character of Disney’s Animated Beauty”), his sequelae, “Pete’s Dragon” (based on animation / live-action) Zemeckis.

Provost joined Disney in 2007 as an assistant to produce the production of then Oren Aviv.