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Paul Rudd is in final talks to join Sony’s Ghostbusters. The Ant-Man star will reportedly play a teacher in a small town. The film is a new chapter in the Ghostbusters universe written by Reitman and Gil Kenan. The story centers on a single mom and her children. Carrie Coon is in talks to play the mom. Finn Wolfhard…

Freeform is going bigger this year for Halloween. The network announced plans at today's combined Walt Disney Television Upfront presentation to scare up even more interest in October, by expanding its 31 Nights of Halloween programming block. The expansion comes after last year's inaugural 31 Nights of Halloween…

Fargo and The Leftovers star Carrie Coon and Finn Wolfhard, best known for his roles in Stranger Things and WB’s It reboot, are in talks to play the mom and son in Sony’s next Ghostbusters installment, which will center on a single mom and her family. Not much else is known about the plot or whether anyone from the…

Sony Pictures has set official release dates for its Spider-Man spinoff Morbius and Jason Reitman’s new Ghostbusters. The moves were revealed Friday evening among several tweaks in the studio’s 2019-20 release slate, including pushing back the bows of two Tom Hanks movies: Columbia Pictures’ Greyhound and TriStar’s…

A day after news broke of a secret Ghostbusters movie which would be helmed by Jason Reitman (son of original helmer Ivan Reitman), a teaser has been released for the Sony Pictures film, which is due out sometime in the summer of next year. The video opens on a dark cloudy and windy night as the camera moves closer to…

Jason Reitman is carrying on the legacy. The son of the original Ghostbusters helmer, Ivan Reitman, will direct the next Ghostbusters feature for Sony Pictures. Due out summer 2020, the new film will serve as the next chapter following the original story, which was first released in 1984 and starred Bill Murray, Dan…

After knocking the ectoplasm out of Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot on UK TV over the weekend, Dan Aykroyd has softened his stance. The original paranormal investigator/eliminator has taken to social media to clarify his statements, now saying Feig “a good movie and had a superb cast.” Aykroyd also noted in his Facebo…

UPDATE: Sony Pictures has refuted Dan Aykroyd’s version of events, saying that the reshoots he referred to actually cost between $3 million and $4 million, and not the $30 million to $40 million Aykroyd described on Britain’s Channel 4 earlier today. That does sound like a lot of money for reshoots. Paul Feig, who…

Sony's operating income in the July-September quarter, its fiscal Q2, fell 48% vs the period last year to $453M. But the Sony Pictures unit held its own, generating a $32M profit, up from a slight loss, with help from releases including Ghostbusters, Sausage Party and Don't Breathe. Revenue for the conglomerate, led…

Tonight at USC, a small but warm and receptive crowd filed into Norris Hall for a conversation with Ghostbusters and Bridesmaids director Paul Feig as part of the annual USC Comedy Festival. At various points Feig took the opportunity to discuss his experiences working with women in comedy. Addressing the smash…

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group is about to broaden its Hollywood footprint in a substantial way. The company is closing a significant co-finance deal with Sony Pictures that will see Wanda take minority stakes in certain Sony tentpole-sized films, the ones that have global appeal. This is all…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: This is the week the indie crowd undergoes its annual mood swing: Disdainful of the summer movies, they exult in almost…