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Sony Pictures is merging its theatrical, home entertainment and TV distribution marketing operations under the co-oversee of Josh Greenstein, the studio’s Motion Picture Group President, and Keith Le Goy, the studio’s Networks and Distribution President. Due to the combining of departments, we hear roughly 35 staffers…

Sony has set a new release date for The Last Vermeer, a crime drama starring Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps, Roland Møller, August Diehl, Olivia Grant, Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Havill and Karl Johnson. Directed by Dan Friedkin, the feature will now hit theaters on Nov 20. James McGee, Mark Fergus, Hawk Otsby…

Daisy Edgar-Jones landed the starring role of Kya in the 3000 Pictures and Hello Sunshine film adaptation of Delia Owens' New York Times bestselling novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. Set up at Sony, the film is being directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay written by Oscar-nominated scribe Lucy Alibar. The story…

Those who tuned in for today’s discussion with Monster Hunter helmer Paul W.S. Anderson at New York Comic Con’s virtual edition were treated to a new sneak peek to the upcoming adaptation to the popular Capcom video game. Check out the teaser at the 42:09 mark. “This really is a long term passion project of mine,&#8221…

D23, the Disney studio’s ultimate fan confab, has set dates for an in-person conference for at the Anaheim Convention Center, Sept. 9-11, 2022. The conference is bi-annual, last held Aug. 23-25 in 2019, offers Disney fans booths of memorabilia to purchase, and stars to pen autographs. Of utmost importance are the two…

Warner Bros. and Sony have unveiled their box office numbers for all the world, and town to finally see this weekend, with Tenet counting a running domestic box office gross to date of $29.5M domestic and $200M+ WW, and Tri-Star’s The Broken Hearts Gallery opening to  $1.125M stateside at 2,204 theaters in 4th…

As if there weren’t any bigger problems in the world during a pandemic…but, yes, Warner Bros. and Sony are shielding their box office hourly figures from rival studios in Comscore on their respective releases Tenet and The Broken Hearts Gallery.  We’ve known about this for a while, but it’s becoming a bigger deal now…

Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and his producing partner, Datari Turner, have signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment where they’ll develop and produce feature films. The first project in development that Foxx and Turner are producing for the studio under their new deal is an untitled action thriller written…

Sony has set moderate theatrical fall releases for two independent features, Diane Paragas’ narrative feature debut Yellow Rose and Andrew Cohn’s comedy The Last Shift which made its global premiere at Sundance. Last Shift, which Sony Pictures World Acquisitions picked up, will debut on Sept. 25, while Yellow…

Everybody knows, as Leonard Cohen once sang. Everybody knows the music business has taken a hit this year, as there’s no live music, TV and film production is down, releases are being held back, and ad revenues from streaming are diminished. But here’s an eye-opener, courtesy of a report in Music Business Worldwide…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is launching a four-part End of Summer Series for the Starz hit series, Outlander, beginning August 23 on the Outlander Collector Facebook page. Set to run the next four Sundays, the series will consist of a new, thematic episode each week as well as all-new conversations…

EXCLUSIVE: Count Sony’s Camila Cabello Cinderella movie as one of the more notable major studio features safely returning to production after the pandemic shutdown. Cinderella, directed by Kay Cannon, is resuming filming outside of London, with some low-level shooting commencing this week as the production felt safe…