If Sony Pictures were one of its own characters, it might be Peter Parker: discounted, dismissed, awkwardly misfit… until miraculously rising to the occasion. In Sony’s case, the occasion has been this decade’s unforeseen manifold events: the pandemic, streaming’s sputter and the beer goggles finally coming off as Wall Street falls in love with P&L again.

In the cold light of day, Sony’s un-flashy leadership seems