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From the time he stepped in as chairman of Sony's Motion Picture Group in 2015, Tom Rothman has heard the rumors that Sony would eventually sell because it didn't have a streaming service or the scale to compete with its behemoth rivals. Universal, Warner Bros., Disney and Paramount battle it out with him at the box…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s $106.4M global box office weekend for Uncharted was another reminder to a streaming-obsessed entertainment industry that the tried-and-true business model of theatrical features still works — and that there’s an audience for them. Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman…

UPDATED WITH LATEST: After a 51-year directing career, and longer as a producer, Ivan Reitman, the comedy architect behind such classics as the Ghostbusters franchise, Twins, Kindergarten Cop and more, died Saturday night, leaving a deep hole in many hearts. 2021 was quite a year for Reitman: He saw his son Jason…

Aunt May says it best in Spider-Man: No Way Home, “With great power, comes great responsibility”. Sony for some time knew they had a massive hit on their hands with Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, and while some studios had to sell pics to streamers to stay alive during the pandemic, or even more desperate, had to…

Sony, which was last seen at CinemaCon in 2018, brought the confab back to post(ish)-pandemic life today. Its President of the Motion Picture Group, Josh Greenstein, took center stage and reiterated the Culver City lot’s “commitment to protecting and preserving the theatrical window.” That drew a great roar from the…

Warning: The following trailer and description contain spoilers of Spider-Man: No Way Home. After Sony reportedly erased a leaked trailer from its upcoming Disney MCU title Spider-Man: No Way Home over the weekend from social, those attendees at CinemaCon finally got a taste. The pic is scheduled to be the big holiday…

After an eight-year streak on the Culver City lot, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairman Tom Rothman will continue to lead the film studio, this time adding CEO to his title as the global media conglomerate has extended his contract. Rothman will continue to report to Sony Pictures Entertainment…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Each installment asks the same five basic questions…

EXCLUSIVE: “Don’t be in a panic!” These are the sage words from Sony Pictures Classics’ Co-President Michael Barker about the future of independent films at the theatrical box office. While the pandemic and the proliferation of streamers has sent a number of awards season contenders into the home, he believes that…

With less than two weeks to go, if there is one phrase that defines how Hollywood’s top Democrats are viewing the election it's "cautious optimism." As in, don't get too fooled again, don't let anything to chance, certainly don't make predictions. "I'd say I've got a cautious optimism going into these last few weeks…

EXCLUSIVE: Drew Reed has just joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as EVP of Literary Affairs, where he will oversee all literary IP acquisitions for feature adaptation at the studio, effective May 1. He will He will support all SPE film labels. Reed comes to SPE after a 17-year run at Fox, where he created the…

As we close the book on one of the most truncated and stressful Oscar seasons in history, the mindsets of many studio and network executives will soon turn to another case of agita: AMPTP’s upcoming contract negotiations with the WGA and the possibility of a writers strike. Speaking to Deadline on the Oscars red…