‘Missing’: Sony Moves ‘Searching’ Pic Up To January

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, and catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group and Legendary Entertainment have made a new multi-year worldwide film distribution partnership. The deal replaces the former pact which Legendary had with Warner Bros, however, both studios will continue to remain in business on select existing titles, read the upcoming Dune: Part Two which is shooting for a Nov. 3, 2023 release, as well as the Monster-verse movies. We told you back in August that Legendary was looking to move off its Warner arrangement.

Legendary Entertainment and Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group have launched a multiyear worldwide film distribution partnership pursuant to which Sony Pictures will market and distribute Legendary’s new upcoming theatrical film titles, the companies said Monday.Legendary and Sony Pictures are aligned in their ongoing commitment to theatrical distribution as a driver for other “downstream” windows and the theatrical window’s long-term value for films.As part of the pact, Sony Pictures will market and distribute new Legendary theatrical releases worldwide excluding China, where Legendary East will handle all marketing and distribution activities. Sony Pictures will also handle home entertainment and TV distribution for the titles it releases.

Sony Music is reportedly reviewing the security protocols at its London HQ near Kings Cross following an altercation last week between rapper Headie One and another musician. Or at least so reports the Mail On Sunday.According to the tabloid, a fight broke out between the rapper and a rival artist following a chance encounter in the cafe at the major’s newish London base last Wednesday.The Mail reports: “Police were called after plates were thrown amid a clash between top ten selling rapper Headie One and another musician visiting the building for a meeting.

Ice Cube has confirmed that he exited Oh Hell No, a Sony comedy in which he would have starred opposite Jack Black, after refusing to comply with a requirement that he be vaccinated against Covid-19.

After Aneesh Chaganty’s computer screen thriller, “Searching,” accrued a healthy 71 on Metacritic and saw box office takings of around $75 million (on a budget of $880,000), the urge to make a follow-up became a question of when not if. And sure enough, in 2019, Chaganty announced his intention to anthologize the series with a standalone sequel before the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly put the entire movie industry on hold.

.)Tatum, for his part, has an . It makes total sense that he would eventually become one. Now, Kravitz is serving up the story behind the viral moment.

Following the premiere of his biopic comedy Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on Roku last weekend, director Eric Appel looks to have already found his follow-up film as he is set to direct and write the comedy Stepdude for Sony Pictures. Matt Tolmach (Jumanji franchise, Venom) is producing along Jack Black and Roz Music.

EXCLUSIVE: The stories of Girls Gone Wild and NXIVM are to be told in a new podcast series from Campside Media, producers of the Chameleon: The Hollywood Con Queen podcast, and Sony Music Entertainment.

Sony has revealed that 3000 Pictures’ “Where the Crawdads Sing” will open in China beginning Nov. 25, a rare booking for a Hollywood film as the nation has cut back on foreign releases.

Police are appealing for help from members of the public to find a ‘keen camper’ who vanished overnight.

Aaron Carter was in and out of rehab up until his death.

French director Quentin Dupieux has begun shooting his 12th feature film DAAAAAALI ! with a star ensemble French cast including Alain Chabat (Smoking Causes Coughing), Anaïs Demoustier (Alice And The Mayor), Pierre Niney (Frantz) and Gilles Lellouche (Little White Lies).

Fox is drawing up its latest animated order.

EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Longmuir has been named EVP of Business Affairs at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.

Lala Kent just gave fans the first look at her new man!

EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Independent Film Trust, Sony Pictures Television and Roadmap Writers have named the 14 writers of color selected to take part in their transatlantic writers’ initiative, Creative Corridor. 

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television’s longtime head of comedy Glenn Adilman and his No.2 Scott Landsman are among several senior executives across different divisions at the TV studio that were let go today, sources tell Deadline.

Euphoria star Jacob Elordi is to lead Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant’s limited series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Sony has moved Love Again, the romantic comedy starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan and Celine Dion, to May 12, 2023. It previously had a released date of February 10.