EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has promoted Maia Eyre to EVP Creative Development at Columbia Pictures. Eyre will report to Columbia Pictures' President of Production Peter Kang on the Culver City lot. She previously was SVP Creative Development at Columbia Pictures. Eyre is the executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Will the real Ben Reilly please stand up? Prime Video is closing in on an order for a new series set in Sony Pictures' Universe of Marvel Characters based on the popular Clone Saga storyline from the Marvel Comics, more specifically the second Clone Saga story arc that focuses on two…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has found its Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander for the network’s upcoming TV adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. David Oyelowo (Silo) and rising star Viola Prettejohn (The Crown) will play the leads in Sony Pictures Television and Left Bank…

In another sign of life for films looking for acquisitions out of film festivals, the Thunder Road and Tango thriller The Surgeon starring Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is seeing its North American and some foreign rights won by Sony Pictures after multiple bids. Sony also took rights in Latin…

UPDATED: TriStar Pictures/Constantin Film/Davis Films’ Resident Evil rang up a massive $108.3M worldwide, not only the best start the franchise has ever seen, but also Zach Cregger’s biggest start as filmmaker surpassing the $70M WW reported opening of last year’s Weapons. What was the previous…

SUNDAY AM: Sony/Constantin’s Resident Evil racked up a greater score at the domestic box office with a $60M opening, which as we told you all along is not only a record for the franchise (that was clear when it came on tracking three weeks ago), but also for Zach Cregger. That opening alone nearly…

Viewing to anime on Netflix has rocketed at almost 10 times the rate of the streamer’s total viewing numbers over the past three years. A Media Partners Asia (MPA) report into anime shone a spotlight on audiences’ love for the genre on the U.S. streaming behemoth, which has anime hits like Blue…

After a record $4.67B summer, last weekend’s Practical Magic 2 from Warner Bros/Alcon didn’t exactly light the fall on fire. But this weekend’s revival of Resident Evil from Zach Cregger could very well do the trick with a $40M-$50M domestic start and another $31M overseas for a global around $80M on…

EXCLUSIVE: There’s been a lot of happy days at Sony this summer with the never-ending record breaking success of Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but nothing could be sweeter than the now as the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed movie conquered Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the…

EXCLUSIVE: KJ Apa (The Map That Leads to You) and Nadia Parkes (HBO’s Youth) have inked deals to star in Obey, a new horror film from Waypoint Entertainment (Project Hail Mary, Cuckoo) and Spooky Pictures (River, 4 X 4: The Event), which Sony’s Screen Gems has locked down for distribution. Plot…

Sony has moved the Jim Caviezel action pic Ghost Soldier from Nov. 6 this year to Wednesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day. In the William Eubank directed movie, Caviezel stars as Henry "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a solitary man with a mysterious past, living a quiet life off the grid in his hometown. But when…

Sony’s new Resident Evil movie hit tracking this week, poised for a franchise record domestic opening — and with that, Zach Cregger is back. Coming off the Oscar-winning Weapons after a breakthrough moment with the 20th/New Regency horror film Barbarian, Cregger recently kicked off screenings…