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Updated with Sunday figures: In the wake of Terminator: Dark Fate’s failure at the B.O., and Paramount’s recent decision to make Beverly Cops 4 for Netflix, we have the further breakdown of cinema IP in Sony’s Charlie’s Angels reboot, which is tanking with a God-awful $8.6M domestic opening, $27.9M worldwide (from 26…

Mark Wahlberg is in final talks to star opposite Tom Holland in Sony Pictures’ Uncharted, the long-in-the-works film adaptation of the bestselling PlayStation action-adventure video game. Deadline confirmed Wednesday that Holland officially is aboard to topline the movie, which moved forward in September when Travis Kn…

Sony’s sequel to its $962.1M global hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle will debut in China on Dec. 13 in sync with its domestic opening. Pic will go up against local titles Skyfire and Gone With the Light that weekend. China is a rich territory for Dwayne Johnson with such pics like Hobbs…

The latest trailer for Bad Boys For Life has dropped, with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence promising to serve up another slice of high-octane action-comedy in the third outing for Sony’s franchise. Bad Boys For Life is scheduled to open on January 17, 2020. Smith and Lawrence are returning as detectives Mike Lowrey and…

Sony said Tuesday it plans to shut down its PlayStation Vue skinny-bundle TV service in order to refocus on its core videogame business. The end of the line will come next January 30. Viewers of films and TV programming can continue to access them via the PlayStation Store and through partner apps. Sony is getting set…

2ND MONDAY UPDATE: : In the end, Disney’s Maleficent Mistress of Evil cast a spell and won the weekend with $19.37 million, inching out Warner Bros’ Joker by $122,000 after the latter studio reported their final fourth-weekend figure at $19.248M. “A virtual tie” is how one insider claimed the race, and there are…

Sony’s reboot of Charlie’s Angels starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska has landed a China release date of Nov. 15 which is timed exactly with its domestic release. No other Hollywood titles are opening in the PRC on that date. Charlie’s Angels will face local titles Beautiful Teacher, Hunt Down, Mar…

This past weekend put Sony over the $1 billion mark at the domestic B.O. for the year,. That’s thanks to the $390.5M success of Spider-Man: Far From Home and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which crossed $140M this past weekend (with $140.4M) thanks to its re-release with four new scenes. Both pics…

EXCLUSIVE: The True Detective Golden Globe nominated actress is boarding Blumhouse-Sony-Red Wagon’s reboot of the 1996 teen witchcraft feature The Craft.  Michelle Monaghan joins the growing Craft cast of David Duchovny, Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, Zoey Luna, Nicholas Galitzine and Julian Grey all…

James Mangold’s Ford v. Ferrari, which is winning over crowds and critics in early screenings since its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, is looking at a solid start in the $23 million-$30 million range, per early tracking, when the Disney-Fox/Chernin Entertainment pic opens in theaters November 15. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s label Stage 6 Films has hired Elizabeth Grave and Tamara Woolfork as SVP of Production and Development and SVP of Business Affairs respectively, under the studio’s Worldwide Acquisitions division. The announcement today was made by Stage 6 co-heads Michael Helfand and Joe Matukewicz. In a joint…

EXCLUSIVE: Julian Grey has boarded Sony/Blumhouse/Red Wagon’s reboot of 1990s femme witchcraft pic The Craft which Zoe Lister-Jones is writing, directing and exec producing. A native Angelino, Grey recently wrapped his first feature film playing the fearless son of Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Fox…