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Ex-Studio Executive Ties Up with Sony: Ned Tanen--involved with such hits as “American Graffiti,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Top Gun” and “The Untouchables” as a producer and studio executive--signed an exclusive, long-term production agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment. Tanen’s Channel Productions, to be headquartered on the Sony lot, expects to produce movies for both Columbia Pictures and Tri Star Pictures. Tanen was president of Universal Pictures from 1978 to 1982. From 1984 to 1988, he was motion picture group president at Paramount Pictures.