Sony Pictures Sells Game Show Network’s Mobile Gaming Subsidiary To Scopely For $1B

A new series of the famous game show Blankety Blank saw Bradley Walsh host as Sally Lindsay, Andi Oliver, Chris McCausland, Jimmy Carr, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Melvin Odoom fill in the blanks to help the contestants win top prizes. On this particular episode, East Lothian farmer Pete took to the stage and shared his love of cows as he just missed out on heading into the next round.

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

Nintendo has announced that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best-selling game in the racing series.According to the publisher, the Nintendo Switch game has sold an additional 3.34 million units during the six months since September 30, 2021–as reported by VGC.Following the confirmation, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has now officially sold a total of 38.74million units since its initial release in 2017, beating Mario Kart on the Wii which previously held the title of the best-selling game with 37.38million

Range Media Partners and iGaming company Game Play Network will team up for a joint venture that seeks to create talent-driven game experiences for the former’s talent and brand clients.

Netflix will soon officially be launching its mobile-gaming app for all subscribers.

Netflix has lifted the curtain on its video game effort, beginning with mobile games for global subscribers using Android devices.

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.

Sony Pictures Entertainment recorded $288M in operating profits for the three months ending September 30, repping a 7% dip from the same period last year. Revenues in the division, however, were up 35% to $2.37B.

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).

Sony has had a patent approved for a feature that allows players to pay to kick others from games.As spotted by VGC, the patent is called ‘Spectators Vote to Bench Players in a Video Game’. It was filed in January 2020 and was granted two days ago (October 19 2021).The feature means that spectators can vote to remove (or ‘bench’) players.

Behaviour Interactive has announced that it will be selling Dead By Daylight NFTs, receiving fan backlash in the process.In a new Twitter post last night (October 18), the developer shared an update to the DBD community revealing that it has been working behind the scenes for several months to adapt in-game Hellraiser models for use as NFTs.“Behaviour worked with Boss Protocol over several months to adapt in-game models for use as NFTs and approved them prior to the release of Pinhead in DbD.

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.

Sony Pictures Classics has taken global rights sans France and Germany, to Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.

J. Kim Murphy administratorSony Pictures has acquired “No Hard Feelings,” an R-rated comedy package with Jennifer Lawrence attached to star.Along with Lawrence, the film will be directed by Gene Stupnitsky, a writer and co-executive producer on NBC’s “The Office.” “No Hard Feelings” will be Stupnitsky’s follow-up to the 2019 coming-of-age ensemble comedy “Good Boys,” his feature-length directorial debut.