Sony Pictures Acquires Studio 8’s Family Comedy ‘Adulting’

Major flooding was reported across South Florida on Monday as soaking rains from Tropical Storm Eta drench the region, leading to rescues and some evacuations.  The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said that Eta made landfall Sunday night over Lower Matecumbe Key and is now off the coast of southwest Florida.The storm is still packing maximum sustained winds of 65 mph and is located about 80 miles south of Key West, moving west at 13 mph.  "A lot of heavy rainfall across South Florida,

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Sony Corp. reported Wednesday in Tokyo that Sony Pictures saw its fiscal second-quarter operating earnings fall to $299 million as the novel coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh on the theatrical film business and hit advertising revenues.

Library Pictures International, the Los Angeles-based film financier backed by Legendary Entertainment, has inked a deal to co-finance South Korean studio CJ Entertainment's local-language slate in Indonesia, Vietnam and Turkey. Under the terms of the deal, Library Pictures will finance up to 50 percent of the budget of CJ's various projects in the three developing markets.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsEXCLUSIVE: Gemstone Studios’ inaugural Rising Storytellers Search has identified the four finalists who will compete for chance to sign a deal with the boutique Sony Pictures Television studio and win additional prizes.“Never did we imagine we’d get the response or the depth or the quality of our 1700+ submissions in this first-ever Rising Storytellers Search.

Sony Pictures has acquired Studio 8’s upcoming family comedy Adulting, now in development. The screenplay comes from Chris Hazzard and Michael Fontana, who penned Lionsgate’s Zachary Levi and Cole Sprouse musical comedy Undercover from Mandeville Films.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is changing the game with its latest venture.

It was when Laura Dern saw photographs of President Obama in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, consoling families involved in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, that she first became aware of the work of Pete Souza. "The sensitivity, the compassion, the invisibility that it takes to capture those stories—that was where I really understood the gift of the White House photographer," Dern says.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSony Pictures Television has picked up exclusive format and global distribution rights to “Medici” producer Lux Vide’s hit Italian medical drama “Doc – Nelle Tue Mani”.Under the deal, SPT Studios will develop a U.S. adaptation of the show, which has scored record ratings on Italy’s public broadcaster RAI.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSony Pictures Television plans to create a U.S. television series based on Lux Vide’s Italian drama Doc – Nelle Tue Mani as part of a deal that also hands it the rights to sell the original show internationally.The Doctor House-meets-The Good Doctor series stars Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love) as Andrea Fanti, a doctor who suffers a major head injury that wipes 12 years from his memory.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterSony Pictures Animation has plucked the first feature film from Academy Award winner Matthew Cherry, Variety has learned exclusively.After winning the Oscar for his acclaimed short “Hair Love,” Cherry is at work on the tentatively-titled “Tut,”  an afro-futuristic, coming-of-age story of the boy king Tutankhamun.Based on an original idea from Cherry and Monica A.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVSeth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door is expanding the executive team under president Erica Huggins with the hire of former Marvel Television exec Aimee Carlson as SVP.Reporting to Huggins, Carlson will work to grow Fuzzy Door’s slate spanning drama, comedy and areas such as science, history, politics and music across film, television, digital and animation.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films has acquired North American rights to 76 Days, a raw and emotional look at the struggles of the people of Wuhan, China, in the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak. Directed by New York filmmaker Hao Wu (People’s Republic of Desire) and China-based journalists, Weixi Chen and “Anonymous,” 76 DAYS made its world premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.