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EXCLUSIVE: International production veterans Shebnem Askin and Michael Rifkin have been appointed Co-Heads of Sony Pictures International Productions. Reporting to Sanford Panitch, President, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, the pair takes over from Laine Kline who stepped down earlier this year. SPIP…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures International Productions has acquired worldwide distribution rights to The Calm Beyond, a survivalist thriller that premiered in competition at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival. This is the feature directorial debut of the late Joshua Wong, the award-winning commercials and shorts director…

Man In Love, a Taiwanese remake of the 2014 Korean romantic drama has been winning hearts locally, grossing $11.3M through Sunday, and remaining No. 1 for three weeks in a row, despite holdover competition from Godzilla Vs Kong and Mortal Kombat. The debut feature from Yin Chen-Hao is coming out of its fourth frame…

Sony Pictures International Productions is launching Parasomnia Productions, a new label dedicated to genre movies in France. The label’s creation is in association with Marc Missonnier's Moana Films. The aim is to promote theatrical genre pics in France, including fantasy, horror, supernatural and mock documentaries…

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican superstar Omar Chaparro (No Manches Frida series & Pokemon Detective Pikachu) has been set for the lead role in Tequila Re-Pasado, an original comedy from Sony Pictures International Productions. Spanish director María Ripoll is helming the pic, re-teaming with Sony after recently wrapping Guerra de…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony has made a key offshore hire, appointing William (Bill) Ireton as Head of Local Production Japan, Sony Pictures International Productions. Ireton is a respected industry veteran who is a former President and CEO of Warner Entertainment Japan. Japan is the No. 3 theatrical market with almost half of the…

Sony Pictures International Productions and Film4 have wrapped production on Michael Winterbottom (The Killer Inside Me) comedy Greed, starring Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher and David Mitchell. Also starring are Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Sarah Solemani, Shanina Shaik, Dinita Gohil, Asim Chaudhry…

La Boda de Mi Mejor Amigo will be directed by Celso García in Sony Pictures International Productions’ latest local-language remake of a classic property. A co-production with Zamora Films and Alameda Films, the Spanish-language adaptation of the 1997 Julia Roberts/Dermot Mulroney/Cameron Diaz starrer My Best Friend’s…

Sony Pictures International Productions is moving into Argentina with La Quietud, its first local-language co-production there. The film hails from Pablo Trapero, who won the 2015 Silver Lion Best Director prize in Venice for El Clan. Sony Pictures Releasing International has taken all distribution rights to La Quietud…

Sony Pictures International Productions, Ikiru Films and 4Cats Pictures are set to co-produce El Pacto, the feature directorial debut of David Victori whose digital series Zero was produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender. Belen Rueda is starring in the horror thriller with filming underway in Barcelona. Rueda…

EXCLUSIVE: Vadhir Derbez and Ximena Romo have been set to star in Sony Pictures International Productions’ Spanish-language remake of 50 First Dates. 50 Primeras Citas is the redo of the 2004 Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore romantic comedy about a woman with short-term memory loss and the guy who continues to court her…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures International Productions is sealing a deal to buy The Perfect Dress, a romantic comedy pitch from writer Ed Horowitz, as a vehicle for Mexican-American heartthrob Vadhir Derbez with Pitipol Ybarra attached to direct. Derbez is the twentysomething son of Spanishlanguage megastar Eugenio…