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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Clea DuVall (Happiest Season) has been tapped to direct Abbi and the Eighth Wonder, a female-driven comedy adventure film in development at TriStar Pictures. Based on an original screenplay by Matt Roller, which made the Black List in 2021, the film’s plot is under wraps. Shawn Levy, Dan…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive situation with what we hear were four offers, TriStar Pictures has snapped up film rights to Wesley Wang’s nothing, except everything., a short film that Wang will adapt for the big screen as writer and director, with Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa producing. A…

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like the recent team-up on Saturday Night Live went very well as Keke Palmer and four-time Grammy winner SZA are set to star in an untitled buddy comedy movie from TriStar Pictures, with producer Isaa Rae producing. Rap Sh!t director Lawrence Lamont is set to direct, with the…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the $216M-plus global grossing success of Anyone But You, Sony is going to keep this romcom train going. We hear that TriStar Pictures has preemptively acquired Brenda Hsueh's high concept romantic comedy Man's Best Friend. Temple Hill is also set to produce. Plot is…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a bidding war, TriStar Pictures has beaten out a number of suitors and pre-emptively acquired rights to Alison Espach's forthcoming novel The Wedding People. Will Speck and Josh Gordon, who have a first-look deal with Sony Pictures, are set to direct, with Oscar-nominated screenwriter…

It took a long time for the bird to cook on Eli Roth’s horror hit Thanksgiving, but the second helping is coming fast. Sony’s TriStar Pictures and Roth have the murderous John Carver to return in a sequel to the film that grossed $30 million globally in its first two weeks of release with an…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar Pictures has landed Spyglass Media Group 's Thanksgiving, a full-length slasher film inspired by the fictitious trailer directed by Eli Roth featured in the cult 2007 film Grindhouse from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Roth returns as director and co-wrote the script with Jeff…

“Once I got into the business, I realized how much I loved telling stories through the art of costume design,” says The Woman King costume designer Gersha Phillips. “It was really interesting how much you can tell about a character and how important the costume design is for the production and for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, who plays Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a book-loving schoolgirl and her classmates in Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical, has revealed how she had trouble getting her child co-stars to loathe her. "They thought I was Nanny McFucking…

Monday PM: TriStar’s The Woman King stayed on track with its Sunday AM estimate, coming in at $19.05M. It’s another great example of how Sony continues to win over adult audiences with non-tentpole fare. Pre-pandemic, TriStar had Little Women in December 2019 which posted a 3-day of $16.7M and legged out to $108.1M…

TriStar Pictures today unveiled the first trailer for its Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, starring BAFTA Award winner Naomi Ackie (Master of None), which is slated for release in theaters on Wednesday, December 21. Check out the trailer above and the poster below. The musical drama from director…