Sony Pictures Entertainment said on Monday that its chief executive, Tony Vinciquerra, will step down at the beginning of next year and be succeeded by the studio’s president and chief operating officer, Ravi Ahuja.

Ahuja, 53, will report to Kenichiro Yoshida, who runs the Sony Group, the Tokyo-based technology and entertainment giant. Vinciquerra, 70, will serve as nonexecutive chairman of Sony Pictures through the end of next year.

Ahuja’s appointment is a relatively tranquil change by the standards of Hollywood corner offices, where chief executives are sometimes replaced in a much less decorous fashion. Bob Bakish, the chief executive of Paramount, was abruptly replaced in April during merger negotiations with Skydance, and Robert A. Iger’s succession at Disney has been a yearslong struggle.

When Vinciquerra took over seven years ago, the company was reeling from an cyberattack that laid bare the company’s internal communications and held up an unflattering mirror to Hollywood.

New York Times News Service