Sony Pictures Classics’ ‘Nine Days’, Neon’s ‘Ailey’ Succeed In Small Runs – Specialty Box Office

The expanding list of showbiz-related outbreaks now includes the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City.

Adam McKay’s upcoming (and still untitled) series about the 1980s-era Los Angeles Lakers has added two more key characters to its expansive roster: Larry Bird and Nike founder Phil Knight.Sean Patrick Small will star as Bird, the Boston Celtics legend, whose memorable rivalry with Magic Johnson defined the NBA during that decade.

EXCLUSIVE: Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American rights to Potato Dreams of America, writer-director Wes Hurley’s autobiographical dark comedy that had its world premiere at this year’s SXSW. The pic will get a U.S. theatrical release in Q1 2022 followed by a digital bow, and the deal comes as the pic readies for Los Angeles premiere tonight at Outfest LA where it is in the official lineup. The full cast is expected to be in attendance.

FADER cover stars Kaytranada and Big Boi are headlining Major League Soccer's All-Star Concert presented by Heineken next Tuesday (August 24) at the Torch, on the doorstep of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The 21+ show is one of many fan experiences in the lead-up to this year's showpiece, which will see the MLS All-Stars face off against their counterparts from Mexico's Liga MX.

Team Naomi. Naomi Osaka‘s Cincinnati Enquirer moment led her agent, Stuart Duguid, to call a reporter a “bully” and accuse him of trying to “intimidate” the professional tennis player with his questions and “appalling behavior.”

Pushing through. Naomi Osaka gave a press conference for the first time since her May exit from the French Open, but it didn’t go as smoothly as she might have liked.

In her first press conference since she withdrew from the French Open and Wimbledon, the world’s No. 2 Womens’ tennis player Naomi Osaka teared up before stepping away from the podium.

Jockey, which won the Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Special Jury award for star Clifton Collins Jr.’s acting, will hit New York and LA theaters on Dec. 29. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the film out of the Park City, Utah festival. The movie will expand across the country following its exclusive debut.

NEW YORK -- “Free Guy,” an action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a background character in a videogame, opened better than expected over the weekend, collecting an estimated $28.4 million in ticket sales despite a marketplace challenged by COVID-19.After a few weeks of declining audiences and underwhelming debuts amid the delta variant surge, “Free Guy" succeeded with an old-school formula: an original, star-fronted movie with good word-of-mouth playing only in theaters.

Sony Pictures Classics has set a Nov. 19 New York and Los Angeles theatrical release for their British romantic drama Mothering Sunday. SPC picked up the movie in September and gave it a world premiere at Cannes last month. The pic will further expand to other U.S. markets after its initial late fall release.

Biz Markie this week, with a memorial service for the genre-defining ‘Just A Friend’ icon held yesterday (August 2).The private service, dubbed ‘The Final Show’, took place at New York’s Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts. Among those in attendance were LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Ice-T and Busy Bee, the latter of whom delivered a speech highlighting Markie’s outgoing personality and infectious sense of humour.“Biz was an icon,” Busy Bee said as per Page Six. “He is what we call hip-hop.

Joel Kinnaman and Kelly Gale are such a picture perfect couple!

Jennifer Yuma editorMark Gordon Pictures acquired screen rights to “The Code Breaker,” based on Walter Isaacson’s “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” The book was published March 9 by Simon & Schuster, and spent several weeks on the top of New York Times best sellers list.The book centers on how Doudna and her collaborators invented an easy-to-use tool to edit DNA.

Scott Disick's expensive transportation requests, and the reality TV star's scheduled appearance there was scrapped.Page Six reported that the "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star was scheduled to appear at Gaffney's in Saratoga Springs, New York, on July 23.