EXCLUSIVE: Peter Kang, most recently co-president of production at Lionsgate, has been hired as EVP Production at Sony’s Columbia Pictures. The veteran exec starts in his new post at the Sanford Panitch-run studio label March 18.

Kang joined Lionsgate in 2016 and had been co-president of production with Bobby Cohen, wh…

Michael B. Jordan is in talks to star in Journal for Jordan, Sony Pictures’ adaptation of Pulitzer-winning journalist Dana Cadendy’s bestselling memoir that will be directed by Denzel Washington. Oscar-nominated Mudbound scribe Virgil Williams penned the script. Jordan also will produce this via his Outlier Society…

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Abrahams is ending a 15-year run as production exec at Sony Pictures. Studio has confirmed that she will be leaving. It is amicable, and Abrahams will take some time to figure out what’s next.

Abrahams has most recently served as senior vice president, responsible for launching, packaging, and oversee…

The monster hunt will begin next year. No, we’re not talking about the national elections but the Screen Gems fantasy action film starring Milla Jovovich from Resident Evil writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson. Monster Hunter will launch September 4, 2020, Sony Pictures said tonight.

Here’s the logline: Behind our world…

Notably boosted by the theatrical strength of Venom, Sony Pictures saw an improved third quarter for the fiscal year 2018, rising to 11.6B yen ($106.5M) in profits versus 10.5B yen in the comparable period of 2017.

The Pictures division logged a 6% increase in sales to 276.7B yen ($2.54B) due in part to the muscular p…

Former Sony Pictures marketing executive Nancy Tate has launched Crush, a full-service boutique creative agency that will develop original marketing content, strategies and campaigns for film, TV and digital clients.

Tate said in a release that the main focus of Crush, which has a launch staff that includes an in-house…

Sony Pictures has set official release dates for its Spider-Man spinoff Morbius and Jason Reitman’s new Ghostbusters. The moves were revealed Friday evening among several tweaks in the studio’s 2019-20 release slate, including pushing back the bows of two Tom Hanks movies: Columbia Pictures’ Greyhound and TriStar’s…

10 Cloverfield Lane helmer Dan Trachtenberg has come aboard to direct Sony Pictures/Columbia’s Uncharted, the long-gestating feature based on the Naughty Dog-created PlayStation video game series centered around treasure hunter Nathan Drake. Shawn Levy was originally attached to direct the film but left production…

Sony Pictures has unveiled the official title for the long-referred to as untitled Mr. Rogers/Tom Hanks Project. The Marielle Heller-helmed film, which at one point went by You Are My Friend, is now titled A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

Based on a screenplay by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster's screenplay,…

Sony has released the first trailer for Men In Black: International, the long-in-the-works reboot of the franchise now starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, who port over from another universe (Marvel’s) to don the black suits in the lead roles made famous by Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.

Sony has already set …

EXCLUSIVE: In a strong eight-figure commitment, Mimran Schur Pictures has taken a minority co-financing stake on two upcoming Sony Pictures Entertainment films. Mimran Schur has come aboard to co-finance Holmes & Watson, the Etan Cohen-directed comedy that stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly and opens December 25…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Neal H. Moritz and actor Vin Diesel have logged a lot of miles together with The Fast and The Furious franchise, but the reunited tandem have been in South Africa working on a very different action epic for Sony: Bloodshot, which adapts the sci-fi superhero introduced in 1992 in the pages of Valiant…