Yair Landau, a 17-year veteran at Sony and head of its digital division at Sony Pictures Entertainment, is leaving the company in April to start his own game and animation studio. Landau plans to develop cross-media content and will continue to have involvement with the studio as an executive producer on Sony Animation's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
Landau also oversaw SOE's growth, which coincidentally became part of Sony Computer Entertainment today, with games like EverQuest. Landau is expected to make announcements about what his company is actually up to once he leaves Sony next month.
Reader Comments (10)
Posted: Mar 13th 2008 9:45PM falcomadol said
I can't think of a single reason why one would want to leave Sony after being assigned to a project titled "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs."
Posted: Mar 13th 2008 9:49PM kspraydad said
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs IS A FREAKING AWESOME STORY!
Best part of this is now I know there is a movie coming!
The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers. Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The food got larger and larger and so did the portions. Chewandswallow was plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food. The town was a mess and the pople feared for their lives. Something had to be done, and in a hurry.
Best part of this is now I know there is a movie coming!
The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers. Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The food got larger and larger and so did the portions. Chewandswallow was plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food. The town was a mess and the pople feared for their lives. Something had to be done, and in a hurry.
Posted: Mar 13th 2008 10:06PM bigd7387 said
I thought his first words would be "It's been great at Sony but's its time to move on, My first game for MS will be....". As well as "Eat that Kaz".
Posted: Mar 13th 2008 10:30PM warpigs330 said
blah!
Posted: Mar 13th 2008 10:33PM FireAnt360 said
I wish him success on his venture ;)
Posted: Mar 14th 2008 3:04AM EJ A said
With the NPD reporting the industry at $1.33 billion, why not get in on that?
Posted: Mar 14th 2008 10:04AM Ves said
Another one. Hm....
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