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In the wake of TriStar boss Hannah Minghella heading to lead Bad Robot’s film department, Sony Motion Pictures Group Chairman Tom Rothman this morning promptly announced that TriStar EVP Nicole Brown will be taking over the division, an organic order of progression. Brown came to TriStar from Good Universe six years…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s TriStar has preemptively picked up Cooper McMains’ feature spec thriller The Tip with John Strickland, the director of the Emmy-winning Netflix/BBC series The Bodyguard, attached to direct. The precise storyline is largely under wraps, but we’re hearing that elements involve a waitress, a hefty $10K…

Entertainment One (eOne) will co-finance Happiest Season, TriStar Pictures' holiday romantic comedy directed by Clea DuVall and starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. The pic is set for a U.S. release on November 20, 2020. DuVall and Mary Holland co-wrote the screenplay, which will begin shooting in January. It…

Kristen Stewart is in talks to star in the same sex comedy Happiest Season at Tri-Star Pictures. Argo actress Clea DuVall wrote the screenplay with Mary Holland, and Sony scooped up global rights earlier this year. DuVall will direct. She previously directed and wrote The Intervention which made its world premiere at…

The Chainsmokers duo Drew Taggart and Alex Pall have launched Kick The Habit Productions to develop and produce film, television, and digital projects with former UTA agent Dan Marcus named President and COO. The group’s manager Adam Alpert will serve as CEO. The company has made a deal with TriStar Pictures for its…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Whitmore is joining Sony Pictures Entertainment effective Dec. 10 as Co-Head of Marketing for the studio’s specialty labels, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. He’ll serve alongside Danielle Misher, who is also Co-Head of Marketing. Both will report to Josh…

The backstory of All the Money in the World and how director Ridley Scott replaced disgraced actor Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer in a key role after the film was finished would make a hell of a movie on its own. But this story of the 1973 kidnapping of 16-year-old J. Paul Getty III, grandson of the billionaire…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar is setting Matt Shakman to direct The Phantom Tollbooth, a live-action/hybrid adaptation of Norton Juster’s classic children’s book. Shakman is the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse who spent five years as executive producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and directed two Game of Throne…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony-based TriStar is in early talks to finance and distribute Bronco Belle, the Khurram Longi-scripted drama. Natalie Portman is negotiating to star as aspiring bull rider heroine Raylene Jackson, and Anna Rose Holmer is in discussions to direct the film. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar is producing. The movie…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar has attached Mark Pellington to direct The Trap, an adaptation of the Melanie Raabe novel that Oscar-nominated Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy is adapting. The Cantillon Company’s Elizabeth Cantillon and Immersive Pictures’ Josh Bratman are producing. The novel, originally published in German as Die…

Captain Fantastic writer-director Matt Ross has been tapped to direct Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a futuristic crime thriller set up at Sony’s TriStar based on Tom Sweterlitsch’s 2014 novel. Mark Gordon is producing via the Mark Gordon Company along with Entertainment 360 and Ross’ Captain Fantastic producer Lynette Howell…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar has preemptively acquired rights to The Perfect Mother, a thriller novel by Aimee Molloy that just sold in a seven-figure HarperCollins publishing deal. Kerry Washington is attached to star in the film, and also produce through her Simpson Street banner. She will join lead producer Amy Pascal, who…