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Annual Report 1998 Sony Corporation [35]
The critically acclaimed blockbuster As
Good As It Gets earned Academy Awards®
for Jack Nicholson as Best Actor and Helen
Hunt as Best Actress.
Wheel of Fortune remains the most popu-
lar game show in the world and, under-
scoring the global appeal of Sony Pictures
Entertainment’s programming, is shown in
49 countries on six continents.
Castle Rock’s blockbuster comedy Seinfeld
is creating unprecedented demand for its
future second syndication sales cycle.
The hit comedy Mad About You, starring
Paul Reiser and Academy Award-winning
Helen Hunt, is a mainstay of Sony Pic-
tures Entertainment’s industry-leading ros-
ter of prime-time series and has been re-
newed for its seventh season.
Other
Scheduled to open in San Francisco, spring
1999, Metreon has drawn increasing local
and national attention with the promise
of 15 new movie theatres and the
SONY●IMAX® Theatre, dining, shopping,
and family attractions.
Game
The new Dual Shock controller can
generate two types of vibrations, adding
a new dimension to the realism of video
gaming.
Gran Turismo from Sony Computer Enter-
tainment (SCE) is a major hit game title
in Japan.
Game characters in hit titles PARAPPA THE
RAPPER and Crash Bandicoot from SCE.
A prototype of a miniature-size PDA will
be launched by SCE during the coming win-
ter season in 1998.
Music
Titanic has become the biggest selling
original score album in history.
Butterfly’s “Honey” was Mariah Carey’s
12th No. 1 single, the most of any solo
female artist in the rock era.
Sales of Oasis’ three albums have sur-
passed 25 million units, with Be Here Now
voted Album of the Year in Rolling Stone
magazine.
The Titanic score composed by James
Horner received twin Golden Globe, Golden
Satellite, and Academy Awards® for Best
Original Score and Best Original Song.
Savage Garden’s eponymous debut album
received a record-high 10 ARIA Awards
(Australia’s Grammy) including Best
Group, Best Single, and Song of the Year.
Pictures
The romantic comedy My Best Friend’s
Wedding scored as a major box office suc-
cess and a hit direct-to-sales video release.
HEART by L’Arc~en~Ciel achieved strong
sales in Japan.