EXCLUSIVE: Distribution vet Ross Klein has joined Sony Pictures as SVP of Domestic Sales.
Klein will oversee theatrical distribution licensing and sales operations across the U.S. and Canada for the studio and its labels.
He’ll be reporting to Sony’s President of Distribution Adam Bergerman.
Klein counts over two decades of experience in content distribution and theatrical sales. Most recently, he served as VP of Sales at Paramount Pictures, where he oversaw all theatrical distribution licensing for territories across the domestic market. During his 13-year tenure at the studio, he played a key role in the releases of blockbuster titles such as Top Gun: Maverick, Mission Impossible, Transformers, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Wolf of Wall Street, Interstellar, and A Quiet Place, among others.
Prior to Paramount, Klein was Branch Manager of Sales at The Weinstein Company, where he managed sales, licensing, and holdover negotiations for all TWC film titles. Before that, he served as Sales Manager at MGM, overseeing theatrical licensing across multiple divisions and developing revenue through repertory theatres for the MGM Library. He began his career as Director of Sales at Newmarket Films/Picturehouse, coordinating theatrical bookings and sales for various releases.
A former Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation Trustee, Klein received his B.A. from Northeastern University.
Sony Pictures’ upcoming slate includes the horror reboot I Know What You Did Last Summer, Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller, Caught Stealing, starring Austin Butler, Regina King and Zoë Kravitz, Kogonada’s sweeping romantic epic, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, the Japanese anime film Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, a direct sequel of the globally acclaimed television series of the same name, a Sisu sequel written and directed by visionary Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander, Scarlet a Japanese animated adventure from Oscar nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda, the comedic reimagining of Anaconda, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, and Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: Bone Temple, the second chapter in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s post-apocalyptic saga, among several other titles.