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Sony and Legendary announced on Wednesday afternoon that their live-action Street Fighter film, based on the classic video games from Capcom, has been dated for release in theaters on March 20, 2026. News of the release date comes shortly after word that Danny and Michael Philippou, the Australian…

Sony has dropped the trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ TriStar/Miramax production Here, which reunites the filmmaker with his Forrest Gump team of Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and screenwriter Eric Roth. The studio decided recently to give the movie a wide release on November 15. The crux of the movie follows…

Sony announced on Friday that its new film Here, reuniting the director, writer, and stars of the classic Forrest Gump, will open wide via TriStar Pictures on November 15. Previously, the film had been scheduled for an exclusive run in Los Angeles in New York on the 15th, with a limited and wide…

Sony sat out CinemaCon in April this year, but was the first major studio to present at CineEurope in Barcelona today, culminating in a screening of Apple Original Films’ Scarlett Johansson/Channing Tatum-starrer Fly Me to the Moon which Sony is releasing theatrically. Before the screening, Sony…

EXCLUSIVE: Leander Suleiman will play comedy writer Anne Beatts in Sony Pictures’ film SNL 1975 (working title), based on real-life behind-the-scenes accounts of the opening night of Saturday Night Live, Deadline has learned. Writing for SNL from 1975-1979, Beatts garnered two Emmys and six…

EXCLUSIVE: The new boss of My Brilliant Friend producer Wildside is on a mission to discover the next generation of Italian talent. Detailing the Fremantle-backed producer’s strategy for the first time since taking over, Sonia Rovai said she will not depart from the genres that the Italian outfit…

Sony’s Wayne Garvie has urged the European industry to echo counterparts in the U.S. by turning TV shows into franchises. “Once the Americans have a successful returning series they do something we Europeans seem to be incapable of – turn them into franchises,” the boss of The Crown outfit’s…

SUNDAY AM FINAL: Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die had a great Saturday of $19.5M, -10% against previews/first day of $21.6M, for what’s shaping up to be a $56M opening. This is the highest-grossing R-rated opening since Oppenheimer last July, and Will Smith’s sixth-highest U.S./Canada opening overall of his…

Sony Pictures Television’s (SPT) long-serving French sales exec Noemie Weisse is retiring after three decades at the U.S. outfit, with SPT expanding Zelda Stewart’s role. Weisse worked across distribution in various EMEA regions including Greece, Turkey, Middle East and Africa to eventually managing…

Shares of Paramount Global edged lower Thursday, day three in the red, amid lingering uncertainty around Skydance’s latest offer. With bigger than anticipated sweeteners for Class B shareholders, it was approved by Par's special board committee and sent on to controlling shareholder Shari Redstone but…

Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die hopefully will hit $75M or more in its global debut this weekend, in a marketplace that has suffered from not only lackluster product but lack thereof. Broken out, that’s $40M+ in U.S. and Canada and $35M abroad in a 92% footprint. Presales for the R-rated fourthquel are…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Sony are teaming to develop a series based on the 2021 film Fatherhood, in which Kevin Hart played a single dad who raises his daughter after losing his wife a day after the baby was born. After directing the film, Paul Weitz will write the series and direct it. This will be a…