Reality Week: Sony Eyes Unscripted Adaptations Of Feature Films & Plots Reboot Of ‘The Newlywed Game’ & Global Versions Of ‘Murder House Flip’

Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, John Malone's international cable giant, saw his overall pay package for 2020 shrink to $44.9 million, compared to a pay packet of $123.2 million in 2019 that was part of a front end-loaded, multi-year compensation package. The $123.2 million overall compensation package for 2019, part of a new five-year contract renewal, included a multi-year remuneration target, certain levels of stock appreciation and amounts aggregated into a single year lump amount.

On The Real World Homecoming: New York, the original cast members of the landmark MTV series reunite in the same loft where they filmed in 1992 to reflect on how it changed their lives, and the enduring resonance of the issues it brought to light.

A new side of Bethenny Frankel. After years of experience on reality TV, Frankel, 50, was ready for something new. Plus, she “desperately needed” to grow her team. Insert The Big Shot With Bethenny, her new competition reality series that follows her search for a vice president of operations at Skinnygirl.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterLongtime Sony Pictures Entertainment executive Keith Le Goy has been named the studio’s chairman of worldwide distribution and networks.Le Goy joins SPE motion picture group’s Tom Rothman and global TV studios and corporate development’s Ravi Ahuja as one of three chairman-level leaders running the studio’s business under Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra.Here’s the full memo from Vinciquerra:I am pleased to announce that Keith Le Goy has

Roselyn Sanchez (Devious Maids, Grand Hotel) has been tapped as the lead in Fantasy Island, Fox’s contemporary version of the classic drama series that has a straight-to-series order to debut Aug. 10. Sanchez will play Elena Roarke, a descendant of the original series’ enigmatic Mr. Roarke, in the project, from writer-producers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain as well as Sony Pictures TV and its Gemstone Studios label, which co-produce with Fox Entertainment.

One of the odd experiences that have arisen from the pandemic delaying every major film for over a year is when a film gets a brand-new trailer more than a year and a half after the first trailer. Inevitably, this makes you wonder, “Didn’t that film already get released?” That’s the case with “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway,” a film that I swear was already in theaters but apparently isn’t actually getting released until June.

Royal Mint has launched a new collection featuring Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit. The coin maker has teamed up with Penguin Random House for the unique collection, which will be the only Peter Rabbit issue in 2021.

Sony Pictures Television-owned Stellify Media has optioned the U.S. and UK rights to My Ranking, a genre-bending singing game show from The Masked Singer creator Won-Woo Park.

Nominated for best documentary feature alongside “Collective,” “Crip Camp,” “The Mole Agent” and “Time,” Netflix’s ode to nature, “The Octopus Teacher,” has gained traction in the Oscars race over recent weeks. The film, which chronicles a diver named Craig Foster, who documented his time swimming with an octopus that lives in a kelp forest off the coast of South Africa, has recently picked up wins at the BAFTAs, alongside a surprise win at the Producers Guild of America Award.

“Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua is set to produce and direct an adaptation of “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof” starring an all-Black cast.

WarnerMedia has named Dutch TV executive Annelies Sitvast its new head of unscripted programming for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. The move comes as Warner rolls out its streaming service HBO Max across its territorial footprint in the region.

EXCLUSIVE: Is your television series based on a classic board game? NBC’s unscripted adaptation of Guess Who? is.

Video games. Some people love them, and others couldn’t care less.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Perhaps it was his first appearance in July 2000 as Aidan Shaw in .

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentColton Underwood, former star of “The Bachelor,” is getting his own reality show at Netflix, Variety has learned.The project, which is currently in production, is an unscripted series with multiple episodes, numerous sources tell Variety, describing the project as focusing on Underwood living his life publicly as a gay man.Netflix declined to comment on the project.News of Underwood’s Netflix deal comes after the television personality, author and former

Naman Ramachandran Sony Pictures Films India has tapped emerging local talent to spearhead its burgeoning Bollywood slate, while simultaneously making moves to aggressively grow its Hollywood footprint.The studio has handed Aakash Bhatia (Amazon series “Inside Edge”) a feature directorial debut with “Looop Lapeta,” the Indian adaptation of “Run Lola Run,” starring Taapsee Pannu and Tahir Raj Bhasin.

Former Discovery commissioner and co-founder of Say Yes To The Dress producer Half-Yard Productions Abby Greensfelder is on a mission to create more female-led stories in the non-scripted space.

Is Bravo gearing up to launch a new Real Housewives franchise? After Jana Kramer sparked speculation that she was filming The Real Housewives of Nashville, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that while cameras were rolling, there is no official order for a reality show — yet.

Unlike Disney, NBCUniversal and ViacomCBS, Sony notably has not launched a direct-to-consumer streaming service to compete with Netflix. Instead, the studio is cementing its future in a major deal with Netflix.