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Editor's note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. David Magee had two pieces of source material to work from for A Man Called Otto, the Marc Forster-directed Columbia Pictures remake of the hit Swedish…

Peter Sealey, a former Columbia Pictures president of global marketing during the studio’s release of Ghostbusters, Tootsie, Stand By Me and The Karate Kid, died Dec. 15 in Palm Springs from complications following a fall. He was 82. Related Story Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo G…

Sony’s Columbia Pictures has unveiled the trailer for its sci-fi thriller 65, starring two-time Academy Award nominee Adam Driver (White Noise), Ariana Greenblatt (In the Heights) and Chloe Coleman (Avatar: The Way of Water), which is slated for release on on March 10, 2023. The synopsis for the film…

EXCLUSIVE: Travis Scott joins Isaac Yowman to Executive Produce a DJ Screw biopic for Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony, is producing the feature length scripted film under the leadership of Vice President Maia Eyre. November 16th will mark the 22-year memorial of DJ Screw's death. As DJ…

Sony’s Columbia Pictures has pushed back the release date for its live-action Harold and the Purple Crayon film by five months, from January 27 to June 30, 2023. The film from Oscar-nominated director Carlos Saldanha (Ferdinand) was previously set to open against Universal’s genre-bender Distant with…

Sony’s Columbia Pictures has released the trailer for A Man Called Otto, its adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s bestselling Swedish novel A Man Called Ove and the subsequent movie of the same name that picked up a pair of Oscar nominations in 2017. The new version, directed by Marc Forster, stars Tom…

It has taken quite a while for a major studio to discover the cinematic possibilities of a movie about a singing crocodile, but Sony’s Columbia Pictures has finally gotten the message and thus we finally have the film adaptation of Bernard Waber’s 1965…

Film Academy chief executive Bill Kramer dropped a reminder in Toronto on Saturday, that his group's movie museum will in February devote space to the late director John Singleton's Boyz N The Hood. So here's a gentle plea to the museum: Do this one without apology. For the moment, the Academy and its museum are in…

EXCLUSIVE: Charles Finch (Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love) is as English as they come, but Hollywood runs through his veins. Having written movies, produced a few, directed three; managed movie stars and built brands, and published high-end cultural magazines, he decided "smack in the middle of Covid, in my late…

Bullet Train is on the move. Sony said today that its Brad Pitt action pic from Columbia Pictures is moving back two weeks from July 15 to July 29 — the slot that opened up with the Dwayne Johnson pic Black Adam moved to the fall. The move gives Bullet Train a little breathing room behind Disney’s MCU threequel Thor: L…

Columbia Pictures today unveiled a trailer and first-look images for its drama Father Stu, based on the true-life story of boxer-turned-priest, Father Stuart Long , which will be released in theaters on April 15. When an injury ends Long’s (Mark Wahlberg) amateur boxing career, he moves to L.A. dreaming of stardom…

Jane Alsobrook, a marketing and publicity specialist who coordinated the U.S. campaigns for numerous successful independent and foreign films in the 1970s and 1980s, has died. She was 78. It was revealed today that Alsobrook died December 13 at her home in Sedona, AZ on after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. While…