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Editor's note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. David Magee had two pieces of source material to work from for A Man Called Otto, the Marc Forster-directed Columbia Pictures remake of the hit Swedish…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Gluck is getting back to his rom-com roots and looks to have landed two of the most sought-after stars in town for his next project. Sources tell Deadline that Sony Pictures has acquired an untitled R-rated romantic comedy, with Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell set to star and Gluck…

Sony Pictures will open Legendary Pictures' The Machine on May 26.  The Peter Atencio directed movie takes place 23 years after the original story that inspired it. In the pic, comedian-star Bert Kreischer faces a familial crisis and the arrival of his estranged father (Mark Hamill) when the ghost of…

Columbia Pictures unveiled a sneak look at its upcoming film Gran Turismo on Wednesday at the Sony Group Corporation's Consumer Electronics Show press conference in Las Vegas. Based on the PlayStation Studios video game, the film will be in theaters August 11, 2023. The film is the true story of…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. The battle to make the historical action film The Woman King started as early as 2015 when producer Cathy Schulman and actress-producer Maria Bello…

I was joined at today's Contenders Film LA3C event by the key people behind the hit epic The Woman King, which was just named to the prestigious list of AFI's Top 10 Movies of the Year. It also scored a rare A+ Cinemascore during its opening weekend in September, proving it has not only critical acclaim…

Following in the footsteps of a massively successful novel, and then the Oscar-nominated 2015 Swedish blockbuster A Man Called Ove, Tom Hanks stars in the English-language remake, A Man Called Otto. It was reinvented to take place in Pittsburgh but still features a central character who is about cranky as…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony's 3000 Pictures has finalized a deal that will see Oscar winner Ang Lee direct Bruce Lee, a film that will star the filmmaker's son Mason Lee in the role of the iconic martial artist. Dan Futterman, whose work includes Capote and Foxcatcher, is working on a script that has seen previous…

Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group and Legendary Entertainment have made a new multi-year worldwide film distribution partnership. The deal replaces the former pact which Legendary had with Warner Bros, however, both studios will continue to remain in business on select existing titles, read the upcoming…

EXCLUSIVE: Maeve Courtier-Lilley (The Outpost), Emelia Hartford (A Hollywood Christmas), Pepe Barroso (High Seas) and Sang Heon Lee (XO, Kitty) have joined the cast of the upcoming Gran Turismo film, based on the bestselling racing video game series of the same name, from Sony Pictures and PlayStation…

Sony’s Columbia Pictures has released the trailer for A Man Called Otto, its adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s bestselling Swedish novel A Man Called Ove and the subsequent movie of the same name that picked up a pair of Oscar nominations in 2017. The new version, directed by Marc Forster, stars Tom…

EXCLUSIVE: Industry and Bodies Bodies Bodies star Myha'la Herrold is the latest name to join Sony and Black Bear’s starry GameStop movie Dumb Money. Herrold joins Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Anthony Ramos, Vincent D'Onofrio and Dane DeHaan in the dramedy which is…