EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is eyeing Scott Frank to write The Seven Five, the feature film adaptation of the hard-hitting ’80s NYPD corrupt-cop documentary that the studio grabbed in a big auction in December amidst the hacking scandal. If the deal makes, it will be a whopper and will pair Frank with already attached hel…

EXCLUSIVE– Yann Demange, one of Britain’s most in-demand directors, is in final negotiations to board Sony’s increasingly high profile cop project The Seven Five. Demange, whose debut feature ’71 bowed to a rapturous critical reception following its world premiere at last year’s Berlin Film Festival as well as in the…

After selling narrative remake rights to Sony, NYPD corruption documentary The Seven Five has sealed a distribution deal with Sundance Selects. Director Tiller Russell’s film chronicles the true crime story of Michael Dowd, a frustrated police officer who turned the 75th Precinct in crime-ridden East New York City…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has gotten its computer systems back online, with emails and everything else up and running again. And the studio is putting the finishing touches on a splashy deal to creative a narrative feature out of The Seven Five, the Tiller Russell-directed and Eli Holzman produced documentary about one…

EXCLUSIVE: “I considered myself both a cop and a gangster.” New documentary The Seven Five chronicles the story of New York City police officer Michael Dowd, whose headline-grabbing 1992 arrest for leading a ring of criminalized cops exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD and sent him to prison for 14 years. Friday…