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We knew this was going to happen. By Oscar Sunday, if not before, Greta Gerwig’s feature revival of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will cross $100 million at the domestic box office, a huge 33% surge in its domestic tally since notching six Oscar nominations on January 13 including Best Picture. While Gerwig already…

EXCLUSIVE: For a second year in a row, I hear Sony Pictures will not be holding an onstage presentation at this year’s CinemaCon, which runs from March 30-April 2 in Las Vegas. I understand Sony will make a return to CinemaCon at some point in the future, and will support this year’s confab in other ways. Essentially…

A couple weeks after Deadline reported that Ruben Fleischer was atop the list to direct Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Sony Pictures’ Uncharted, and the race was on to keep the pic on track to shoot before the next installment of Holland’s Spider-Man, the studio changed the release date of the Columbia Pictures…

Earning his first Oscar nomination for Hair Love, his first animated short, Matthew A. Cherry's entrée into the medium was inspired by a phenomenon he'd observed on social media. Centering his short on an African American father, as he confronts the intimidating task of doing his daughter's hair for the first time…

With Sony’s Bad Boys For Life in the midst of raking in what looks like the second-best MLK Weekend opening of all time at the domestic box office, the wheels are in motion for a sequel to the franchise. Deadline confirmed Friday that Bad Boys For Life screenwriter Chris Bremner has been set to return and write the…

Sony Pictures said Tuesday that Greta Gerwig's Little Women will be released February 14 in China. The news comes a day after the latest adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s iconic novel scored six Oscar nominations including Best Picture. The film recently passed $100 million at the worldwide box office, with its…

"The sun is shining on Culver City through the smog," is how Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group chairman Tom Rothman began a call Monday to discuss Sony's strong Oscar nomination showing. The studio reaped a haul of 20 noms – 10 for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, six for Little Women, a Best Supporting Actor nom for To…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is racing to keep Uncharted on track to shoot before the next installment of Spider-Man with Tom Holland. Deadline hears that Ruben Fleischer is atop the list to direct Holland and Mark Wahlberg in the film. Sony was moving on an accelerated track that knocked out Laika’s Travis Knight late…

Sony Pictures has pushed back the release of its Kevin Hart starrer Fatherhood by eight months to January 8, 2021. The move was a strategic one by the studio and not tied to injuries the actor sustained in a late-summer car accident. Sony had planned to move the pic from its announced April 3, with its Peter Rabbit 2…

Here are the scorecards for Sunday night’s 77th annual Golden Globe Awards, with charts for wins by film, distributor, TV show and network. HBO led everyone with four wins — two each for limited series Chernobyl and freshman drama Succession. Sony Pictures was the top studio on the night with its three wins for…

When composer Nate Heller was asked to score A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, he says he felt "equal parts joy, excitement and terror," knowing that the music he'd create would have to stand up to the legacy of Fred Rogers. "He was an extremely musical person. He wrote all the original songs for the show, which…

Nearly 30 years after he burst onto the movie scene with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the few breakout directors from the 1990s to still be working at the top end of the studio system. After a brief wobble in the late 2000s with Grindhouse, his recent films have been his most successful yet…