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EXCLUSIVE: With a projected $1.109B through tomorrow, Spider-Man: Far From Home will swing past Skyfall ($1.108B) to become Sony Pictures' highest-grossing global release ever. The Sony/Marvel sequel's split is expected to hit $376M domestic and $733M at the international box office through Sunday. The milestone comes…

Sony Pictures is starting to take meetings to lock down a director for Venom 2, the sequel to last year’s Marvel villain pic that grossed $856.1 million worldwide. We hear that it’s only at the meeting stages at this point, and no offers are out, but that the list of helmers includes Mowgli and Breathe director Andy…

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is outstripping all of the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s previous films in ticket presales on Fandango. While The Lion King will remain the No. 1 film this weekend with industry estimates projecting a $95 million second frame, it would not be a shocker if Once Upon a Time i…

EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Tarantino has teamed with Sony Pictures Television on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Quentin Tarantino Present the Swinging Sixties. It’s a series of 10 films personally curated by Tarantino, including Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Easy Rider — all of which served as a specific influence in the…

EXCLUSIVE: In what was said to be an eight-way bidding war, Sony Pictures has won the competition for film rights to Malamander, a middle-grade YA novel by author Thomas Taylor, the illustrator behind the UK cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Malamander, the first in a planned book series, was…

Someone from Sony Pictures Entertainment better try to patch things up with Samuel L. Jackson. The Marvel Studios star they call Fury was seething on social media this morning after getting an eyeful of Sony’s marketing campaign on Spider-Man: Far From Home. The actor who has portrayed Marvel super-spy Nick Fury of…

Sony Pictures said Friday that is renaming on of the biggest theaters on its Culver City lot after John Singleton. The director-writer-producer, who died in April at age 51 after suffering a stroke, made his feature debut with Sony and Columbia Pictures’ Boyz N the Hood, which led to him becoming the youngest person…

UPDATED with addditional statements: A day after Disney CEO Bob Iger said it would be "difficult" for the media giant to produce TV shows and films in Georgia given its strict new abortion law, a handful of major media companies have added their voices to the chorus in a series of statements. Following reservations…

EXCLUSIVE: Alfre Woodard has signed on to play Kevin Hart’s mother-in-law in Fatherhood, the Sony Pictures film adaptation based on the memoir Two Kisses For Maddy: A Memoir Of Loss & Love by Matt Logelin. Paul Weitz is directing the motion picture from a screenplay by Dana Stevens. Weitz penned the current…

Men in Black: International, Sony’s reboot of Men in Black with Thor: Ragnarok thespians Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, arrived on tracking this morning with a $40 million start. The pic opens June 14. While lower than the $50M-plus three-day total of the previous Will Smith-Tommy Lee Jones movies, Men in Black: I…

EXCLUSIVE: Get off the red carpet or get arrested was the message sent by Cannes Film Festival ushers Tuesday night to hundreds of ticket holders who were turned away from the premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood at the Grand Lumiere. After arriving a solid 30 minutes or more in advance of the…

Sony Pictures and Mattel Films have set a March 5, 2021, release date for Masters of the Universe, the latest film adaptation of a Mattel toy line. The film originally had been slated for Christmastime this year. Noah Centineo is set to play He-Man in the live-action Columbia Pictures movie based on the 1980s action…