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Sony Pictures said Wednesday that it has moved the release date of Ghostbusters: Afterlife from March to June 11, 2021, which will be the same weekend as the first Ghostbusters film was released in 1984. It becomes the latest tentpole shift in the theatrical calendar given the ongoing restrictions of movie theaters…

Hulu said Tuesday that has acquired U.S. rights to Clea DuVall's Happiest Season, the holiday romantic comedy starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis that had been aiming for a November 25 theatrical release from Sony Pictures. With the deal today, the pic will now bypass U.S. big screens and premiere on the…

Sony Pictures has landed Adulting, a high-concept family comedy feature film from Studio 8 that was written by Chris Hazzard and Michael Fontana based on their original idea. Studio 8’s Jeff Robinov, John Graham and Guy Danella are producing the pic, which is now in development. The logline is under wraps but is said…

“I don’t care what those creatures are — we’ll destroy them and close the gateway.” Yeah, Milla Jovovich doesn’t play around. And that’s good because it certainly isn’t playtime when enormous prehistoric critters go on the attack. Here is the first full trailer for Monster Hunter, the video game adaptation from…

Update: Sony made it official: Paul W.S. Anderson’s Monster Hunter starring Milla Jovovich is moving up from its April 23, 2021 release date back into this year and debuting on Dec. 30. That’s Escape Room 2‘s previous old date and that sequel is heading to a TBD weekend in 2021. Also dated for Oct. 16 is another…

EXCLUSIVE: In a new clip from the forthcoming musical drama Yellow Rose from Diane Paragas, we are immediately immersed into an intimate moment where Tony-winner and Grammy-nominee Lea Salonga (Mulan, Aladdin) is singing the classic Filipino song “Dahil Sa Iyo (Because of You)” to her child as a lullaby while…

It should be no surprise to see executive producer Alexander Payne and producers Albert Berger’s and Ron Yerxa’s names on the credits for the new film The Last Shift, set in an ignored and decaying midwestern American town and focusing on a man retiring after 38 years working the same job in a greasy drive-thru…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has set Will Gluck and Chris Bremner to script End of the World, a buddy action comedy that Gluck will direct. Gluck and Jodi Hildebrand are producing through their company Olive Bridge Entertainment, which has a first-look deal with the studio. Plot is under wraps. Gluck directed Peter Rabbit…

Following Tenet in an effort to revive movie theaters, Sony Pictures and its TriStar label are turning to the endangered romantic comedy formula to bring people back from the pandemic and into multiplexes, and especially in this case a targeted audience of Gen Y’ers who might see themselves and their past…

Sony has pre-bought domestic on JD Dillard’s (Sweetheart) Korean war pic Devotion, which is set to star Jonathan Majors (Da 5 Bloods) and Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick). STX has come aboard for international sales ahead of the TIFF market and will distribute in UK and Ireland. Black Label Media is aiming to start…

EXCLUSIVE: James Ponsoldt is in negotiations to direct 3000 Pictures' Nothing to See Here, based on Kevin Wilson's New York Times bestselling novel. Ponsoldt will reteam with Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who are adapting the novel and previously collaborated with Ponsoldt on The Spectacular Now. They are…

EXCLUSIVE: Even with Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Morbius postponed until 2021, Sony Pictures is continuing to build up its slate of Marvel films. Sources tell Deadline that J.C. Chandor is in talks to direct Sony’s Kraven the Hunter, the latest film to gain momentum in the studio’s Universe of Marvel…