However, a Sony spokesperson denounced any sort of planned merger or restructuring of any of the Sony media divisions at that time in an interview with the latter source. News outlets including The New York Post, Complete Music Update and TheStreet reported on 19 December 2016 about Sony was considering a restructuring of its American operations by merging Sony Pictures with Sony Interactive Entertainment which would have placed Sony Pictures under Sony Interactive's then-CEO, Andrew House, though House wouldn't have taken over day-to-day operations of Sony Pictures. and was later replaced by Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Anthony Vinciquerra on.

On 13 January 2017, Lynton announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Sony Entertainment and Sony Pictures and chairman of the latter to become chairman for Snap Inc. On 18 February, 2016, Seligman resigned after a decade and half with the company but remained there until March 31. On 9 April 2013, Lynton renewed his contract with Sony and was elevated to the presidency at Sony Entertainment. On 30 March 2012, then-co-chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, Michael Lynton, and executive vice president and general counsel of Sony, Nicole Seligman, were respectively named as CEO and president of Sony Corporation of America to oversee all of Sony's global entertainment businesses.

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