Sony names new chief for digital unit

Sony Pictures Entertainment has tapped Bob Osher to head its digital production division, which oversees the studio’s animation business and visual effects company Imageworks.

Osher, who has been a chief operating officer at Columbia Pictures Motion Picture Group, succeeds Yair Landau, who announced this week that he was leaving to launch a games and animation venture.

Hannah Minghella, a creative affairs executive at Sony Pictures, will head production for Sony Pictures Animation, which produced the 2007 film “Surf’s Up.”