Sony Pictures Entertainment Records $288M Q2 Profit; Full-Year Forecast Upped To $950M

Jenny Mollen’s debut novel City of Likes is getting the television treatment even before its hits shelves in 2022. The Nacelle Company, which published the book, will adapt the novel for television under its first look comedy deal with Sony Pictures Television.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRichard T. Jones is launching an independent production company dubbed Prophecy Pictures Entertainment, Variety has learned exclusively.Jones is starting the company with producing partners Jeremy Loethen and Kristy Horiuchi.

RuPaul is getting animated!The host and television personality lends his voice to Disney Channel's in Saturday's episode, and only ET exclusively premieres an official photo (see above) the first clip of RuPaul in animated action.Season 3 of finds Anne Boonchuy (voiced by Brenda Song) and the Plantars transported from Amphibia to her hometown of Los Angeles, where the frog family must learn to navigate the complexities of this modern-day world, conceal their identities as talking frog people and

EXCLUSIVE: With her Emmy-winning show Pose coming to an end, write and director Janet Mock looks to have found her follow-up feature as she has signed on to direct and rewrite The International Sweethearts of Rhythm for Sony Pictures. A previous draft was written by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks with Amy Pascal, Susan Tarr, Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman will produce

EXCLUSIVE:  The 1917 Oscar winning studio New Republic Pictures has signed a development financing deal for movies and TV with LA-based Providence Film Group.

EXCLUSIVE:  As AFM kicks off, Deadline has learned about some executive changes at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Stage 6 Films.

EXCLUSIVE: After recently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated adaptation of the manga comic Bullet Train, Sony Pictures is eyeing another popular Japanese comic series adaptation as sources tell Deadline, Julius Avery has been set to direct Gantz for the studio. Based on the manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku, the script will be adapted by Marc Guggenheim with Temple Hill producing.

EXCLUSIVE: The Lamorne Morris and Jackie Earle Haley movie Death of a Telemarketer has landed at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorComcast saw its third-quarter profit soar due to its massive broadcast of the Tokyo Olympics across NBCUniversal as well as an uptick in broadband customers hunkered down at home during the coronavirus pandemic, even as the company’s traditional cable business showed new signs of erosion.The Philadelphia owner of the Comcast cable empire and the NBCUniversal entertainment conglomerate said profit in the third quarter came to $4.04 billion, or 86 cents per share,

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJapanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate, Sony Group saw revenues rise in its music, games and pictures units in the second quarter of its current financial year. But group profits were halved from JPY459 billion to JPY283 billion ($2.50 billion at current exchange rates).The company reported its figures for the three months from July to September on Thursday afternoon local time.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe lives and epic love story of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and manager and personality Sharon Osbourne will be the subject of an upcoming feature film.The untitled project comes from Polygram Entertainment, and will follow a biopic format centering on their decades-long bond — one that exploded to the heights of pop culture with the flagship MTV reality series “The Osbournes.”  Oscar nominee Lee Hall (“Billy Elliot”) is scripting the project.“Our relationship at times

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures International Productions’ original comedy Tequila Re-Pasado recently wrapped filming in Mexico and we’ve got first-look images from the film (see above and below).

Jamie Redknapp and his new wife Frida Andersson-Lourie have been spotted leaving a lavish hotel in London after their surprise wedding earlier this week. Football pundit Jamie, 48, and wife Frida, who has already changed her surname on Instagram, were seen leaving the five-star Connaught hotel, where suites cost in excess of £3,000 a night.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has sold GSN Games, a division of its Game Show Network subsidiary, to mobile gaming specialist Scopely for $1 billion.

GSN Games, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Game Show Network LLC, for approximately $1 billion, the companies announced on Monday. The companies said in a statement that the acquisition would strengthen Scopely’s ability to “create and deliver engaging, long-lasting game experiences.”The $1 billion purchase price of the transaction will be paid half in cash and the remainder in preferred equity, the companies said in the statement.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSony Pictures Entertainment announced a deal to sell GSN Games, a division of Game Show Network, to mobile-games company Scopely for about $1 billion in cash and stock.GSN Games’s portfolio of free-to-play mobile and online games includes “Solitaire TriPeaks,” “Bingo Bash” and “Wheel of Fortune Slots,” among other titles.