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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Longmuir has been named EVP Business Affairs at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. She’ll report to Joe Matukewicz, Head of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Stage 6 Films. A 20+ year business and legal affairs veteran, Longmuir has held executive positions at…

EXCLUSIVE:  As the American Film Market kicks off this week, Deadline has learned about some executive changes at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Stage 6 Films. Jon Freedberg has been promoted to EVP Content Strategy & Operations of the division. He began with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions in 2008 and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Lamorne Morris and Jackie Earle Haley movie Death of a Telemarketer has landed at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. The comedy-drama, which also stars Alisha Wainwright, Haley Joel Osment and Woody McClain, won the Fan Favorite Film Award at the American Black Film Festival last year. Written and…

EXCLUSIVE:  Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired global rights to Maven Screen Media's A Mouthful of Air based on Amy Koppelman’s novel of the same name. Koppelman also wrote and directed the movie, which Deadline first reported, starring Mank Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried, American Horror Story‘s Finn…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has bought all international rights to writer-director Nikole Beckwith's second feature, Together Together, which debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Starring in the comedy are The Hangover star Ed Helms, A Simple Favor actress and Big Mouth writer Patti…

EXCLUSIVE: Kellie Madison (The Gate, The Tank) will direct the fourthquel Never Back Down: Revolt from a script by Audrey Arkins (Elyse) for Mandalay Pictures, Wonder Street and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Production is set to start November 23 in and around London. Never Back Down: Revolt centers on a woman…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has acquired all worldwide rights, excluding the Philippines, to the musical drama Yellow Rose directed by Diane Paragas. This marks Paragas’ narrative feature debut and stars Eva Noblezada’s (Hadestown) as a Filipino teen (Noblezada) from a small Texas town who…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a heated auction, See-Saw’s upcoming Kate Winslet-Saoirse Ronan romance-drama Ammonite has pre-sold to Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, Lionsgate and Transmission for key international markets. SPWA has taken a slew of international territories including Asia, Italy, LatAm, Middle East…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ and CAA have inked key pre-sales at AFM on Anna Kendrick sci-fi-thriller Stowaway, including a multi-territory pact with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Sony has taken rights in UK/Ire, Australia/NZ, Latin America, Eastern Europe, most of Asia and South Africa. Additional territories sold include…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Whitmore is joining Sony Pictures Entertainment effective Dec. 10 as Co-Head of Marketing for the studio’s specialty labels, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. He’ll serve alongside Danielle Misher, who is also Co-Head of Marketing. Both will report to Josh…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Worldwide has just taken most international territories to Bo Burnham’s Sundance Film Festival indie feature Eighth Grade, which in the wake of a fantastic Rotten Tomatoes score of 98% certified is being primed for awards season by A24. The Scott Rudin-Eli Bush-produced movie, which marks…

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions President Steve Bersch announced today that, effective June 1, Dan Primozic has been upped to Executive Vice President of Business Affairs for Screen Gems. In a memo to his colleagues, Bersch wrote that Primozic, who currently serves as SVP Business Affairs for SPWA and Affirm…