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EXCLUSIVE: Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment has sold the rights to Geoff Rodkey's middle-grade novel We're Not From Here to Columbia Pictures, Deadline can report. The feature adaptation will be a family-focused hybrid live-action and animation film which Rodkey will adapt with Mike Mitchell (Trolls, The Lego Mo…

EXCLUSIVE: Hyundai Motor Company and Sony Pictures Entertainment have entered into multi-promotional partnership across five of the studio’s upcoming pics which will feature the automaker's new models and technologies. Hyundai Motor's new models and technologies will star in five upcoming Sony movies including Uncharte…

Sony has tapped prolific TV director S.J. Clarkson to direct an untitled Marvel film. No details on which Marvel property it will be, other than it’s female-centric. Currently, no writer or star is attached. Clarkson is no stranger to the Marvel world having directed episodes for Jessica Jones and The Defenders. The…

Sony is turning its listed subsidiary Sony Financial Holdings into a wholly owned in house entity, in a deal that will cost $3.73BN (400 billion yen). According to financial paper Nikkei, the move is being made to take control of a stable profit generator during the current pandemic, and mirrors similar action taken…

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, which runs ad-supported streaming networks like Crackle, reported a mixed bag of first-quarter results, with record viewership during the onset of COVID-19 but also advertising uncertainty. The company reported an all-time high number of visits to Crackle and Popcornflix in…

Sony Pictures has secured an untitled sci-fi thriller, which will be based on an original script by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the screenwriters behind mega-hit A Quiet Place and its forthcoming sequel. The duo will also direct the pic and produce, under their Beck/Woods, alongside Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi of Raimi…

Ralph Fiennes is attached to star as Miss Trunchbull in Netflix and Working Title’s movie Matilda, we understand. The film is based on the popular musical stage play version of Roald Dahl’s classic story in which a young bookworm prodigy battles with her parents and nemesis headmistress Trunchbull. Sony will release…

Sausage Party producers and Point Grey principals Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have reteamed with Sony and producer Matt Tolmach (who worked with them on Hulu’s Future Man series) to develop an adult animated film based on the 2018 podcast, Bubble, which was created by Jordan Morris. Morris will adapt the screenplay…

Sony’s The Nightingale WWII drama starring Elle and Dakota Fanning, which was suppose to come out at the end of this year, has been pushed to Dec. 22, 2021 due to the COVID-19 production shutdown. Real-life sisters Elle and Dakota Fanning will play on-screen sisters in the coming-of-age story adapted from Kristin…

Deadline has confirmed that the Seth Rogen/Point Grey Pictures comedy An American Pickle is heading to HBO Max. I’m informed that a release date for the movie remains TBD even though the service is launching May 27. WarnerMedia has taken global rights to the feature, which stars Rogen in dual roles, from Sony. The…

Talk about being in cahoots. Sony and Disney just made major changes on their release date calendars, particularly among their Marvel properties. Sony said Friday that it is moving their Spider-Man: Homecoming threequel to Nov. 5, 2021 instead of keeping their original July 16 date next year. Disney then announced…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that producer Meryl Poster has optioned the rights to the Broadway Books novel Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch under her new deal at Columbia Pictures which focuses on female-driven projects. Time of My Life follows a discontented stay-at-home mom who wakes up seven years prior and…