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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…

There have been many film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, but writer-director Greta Gerwig's new version makes one crucial change: a nonlinear timeline. She told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New York why it was important to focus the film on Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Meg (Emma Watson), Amy…

EXCLUSIVE: Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue’s journey with their script for Sony’s awards-season pic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood began 10 years ago, even before the pair were Emmy-nominated for their work on Amazon’s Transparent and co-wrote Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil with Linda Woolverton. It…

Director Marielle Heller describes convincing Tom Hanks to play Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood "the biggest miracle I’ve ever performed. I’ll never perform another miracle that good again!" She explained recently at Deadline’s annual The Contenders New York how the casting coup came about. "I know…

Filmmakers behind the slate of Sony's awards hopefuls this year took unique and fascinating paths to creating a sense of meaning in complicated worlds. Those messages were central to their films covered Saturday afternoon at Deadline’s The Contenders New York event at the DGA Theater. For Quentin Tarantino and Once Upo…