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‘Hunger Games’ Producers Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson’s Color Force Ink Film Deal With Sony
Color Force, the Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson-run banner behind The Hunger Games movies and Crazy Rich Asians, have signed a film producing deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment. “We love making movies. That is why we are excited to make Sony Pictures our home base for feature films. Sanford (Panitch), Josh (Greenstein), Tom (Rothman), and the whole team […]
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Sony Pictures Promotes Louise Heseltine to Senior VP of Corporate Communications
Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted Louise Heseltine to senior vp of corporate communications. Heseltine’s new role for the studio’s Motion Picture Group was announced Monday, and she will report to chief communications officer Tahra Grant, who was promoted earlier this year. Heseltine joined Sony in 2020 as vp of corporate communications for the Motion Picture […]
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John Cho Can’t Trust His AI Device in Blumhouse’s ‘Afraid’ Trailer
John Cho begins to regret using an AI device to keep his loved ones safe in the first trailer for the thriller feature Afraid. Sony released the trailer Wednesday for writer-director Chris Weitz’s film that hits theaters Aug. 30 and was formerly known by the title They Listen. Hailing from Columbia Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, […]
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Sony Takes Majority Control of U.K. Drama Producer Eleventh Hour Films
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has taken majority control of Eleventh Hour Films, the U.K.-based TV production company it first invested in back in 2018. The deal, announced Monday, sees Eleventh Hour join SPT’s stable of majority-owned British drama outfits, alongside Left Bank Pictures (The Crown), Bad Wolf (His Dark Materials) and Eleven (Sex Education). Helion […]
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Crunchyroll to Release ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle’ in Theaters as Film Trilogy
Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment are giving the blockbuster Demon Slayer anime franchise an appropriately grand finish. The partners revealed Sunday that they will release Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, the last episodes in the hit anime franchise, as a trio of theatrical films in cinemas worldwide. The three-part installment represents the final […]
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Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Find Love While De-Aged in Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Here’ Trailer
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright experience pivotal moments at one very important place in the trailer for Here. Sony’s TriStar Pictures is set to release director Robert Zemeckis’ drama feature in theaters on Nov. 15. Here tells the story of multiple families over the course of generations, with the entire film taking place in a […]
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Sony Shutters TriStar TV, Jennifer Turner Among Duo Leaving (Exclusive)
Sony Pictures Television is shuttering its TriStar TV banner. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that TriStar TV exec vp Jennifer Turner and senior vp development Nicole Norwood are leaving as the division is being folded into the larger Sony TV fold. No additional layoffs are expected to come as part of the move. Reps for […]
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Sony Brings Stable of Filmmakers to Cannes for Columbia 100th Anniversary Bash
Sony brought together a multiverse’s worth of its filmmakers past and present together Friday at Cannes for a dinner celebrating the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures. The attendees at Mamo Michelangelo included Cannes jury president and Barbie director Greta Gerwig (who made Little Women for Columbia), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Oscar winners Phil Lord and […]
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Marvel’s ‘Silk: Spider Society’ Dead at Amazon
The writing was basically on the wall for this one. Amazon’s Marvel drama Silk: Spider Society — from producers Sony Pictures Television — is no longer moving forward at the streamer. Sources say Sony TV, which owns rights to a fraction of the Marvel universe that features more than 900 characters, plans to shop the […]
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Sony Pictures Full-Year Profit Slips to $808M
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s full fiscal-year 2023 operating income fell to $808 million from $894 million in dollar terms, with sales creeping up slightly to $10.32 billion from $10.14 billion. SPE comprises motion pictures, television productions and media networks, and the fiscal-year 2023 performance of those three segments was impacted by the dual Hollywood strikes. Sony’s […]
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Sony Pictures Promotes Tahra Grant to Chief Communications Officer
Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted Tahra Grant to chief communications officer. Serving as executive vp in the role, Grant will report to SPE CEO Tony Vinciquerra after previously leading corporate communications for the studio’s Motion Picture Group over the past eight years. She steps into the position vacated by Bob Lawson, who was promoted earlier […]
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The End of Peak TV “Could Be a Good Thing,” Says Sony International TV Boss Wayne Garvie
The end of “peak TV” — the never-ending expansion in the number of drama series being produced worldwide — could be a good thing, according to Wayne Garvie, President of International Production at Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Speaking at a keynote at TV festival Series Mania on Wednesday, Garvie noted that despite the sharp decline […]
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