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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has acquired Armored, a film adaptation of the new audio book written by Mark Greaney, who’s best known for writing the Gray Man bestsellers and who is also co-author of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels. Michael Bay is producing through his new deal at Sony Pictures along with Erwin Stoff of 3…

An American Pickle, the Seth Rogen-starring comedy that moved from Sony Pictures to HBO Max, has lined up an August 6 release date on WarnerMedia’s streaming service. The pic, from Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures, will world premiere as the first HBO Max original film under the Warner Max movie…

The Big Bang Theory alum Kaley Cuoco is set to join Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson in the forthcoming action-comedy Man From Toronto from Sony Pictures, Deadline has confirmed. The movie will be released on September 17, 2021. Patrick Hughes is directing the script by Robbie Fox, from a story by Fox and Jason…

There’s a whole lot of shuffling going on at Sony Pictures with their release slate. The new release dates are the result of the current coronavirus outbreak. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Columbia Pictures) has been moved to March 5, 2021 from its original July 10 release date while the Sony/Marvel pic Morbius (Columbia…

The Astaire building on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City will reopen Thursday after being closed “out of an abundance of caution” when the studio learned that a person who visited there two weeks ago tested positive for coronavirus. A memo was circulated to all employees Wednesday saying that a person who attended…

Sony Pictures has put production of Uncharted on hold for six weeks as concerns over the spread of COVID-19 continue to grow. Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg are starring in the film adaptation (which was in the pre-production stage) based on the bestselling PlayStation action-adventure video game created by Naughty…

Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra told employees Thursday that they are free to work remotely as the coronavirus virus spreads. He said in a memo to staff that the Culver City lot and offices remain open. Companies all over the country are transitioning to work-from-home models, with…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Busy night for Jason Statham. He just parted company with WME, the agency that signed him away from CAA early last year. Trying to get to the bottom of this, but it was a mutual decision between agency and client, and it happened right on the heels of Statham exiting the Sony Pictures comedy The Man F…

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…