Sony Pictures to Host Drive-In Screenings on Hollywood Studio Lot

Dave McNary Film ReporterAdam Driver has signed to star in Sony Pictures’ science-fiction thriller “65,” to be written and directed by “A Quiet Place” writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.Beck and Woods are also producing with Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi for Raimi Productions along with Debbie Liebling.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Marisol Nichols, over the last few years, has been juggling the demands of being an actor on series including Riverdale with a side gig as an undercover agent in the fight against sex trafficking.The latter is now being turned into a television series after Sony Pictures Television optioned rights to her story.Nichols, who plays Hermione Lodge on the CW series, revealed her unusual side hustle in a long-form story in May’s Marie Claire.In the article,

Ed Meza @edmezavarSony Pictures Television Latin America is developing a new Colombian drama series inspired by popular hip hop band ChocQuibTown that will examine racism in Latin America and what it means to be Afro-Latino.Announced Sunday during the American Black Film Festival, series “Somos Los Prietos” (“We Are the Black Ones”) marks the first cross-company collaboration – referred to internally as “One Sony” – between SPT’s international production arm and Sony Music Latin, which counts

Billie Holiday biopic, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, will be released on February 12, 2021 via Paramount Pictures.The film’s release date means it will hit cinemas just before the Oscar-qualifying cut-off date on February 28.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSony Pictures Classics will release Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s The Truffle Hunters on Christmas Day, Dec. 25.It was announced this week that the documentary will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, capping off a string of previous acceptances into the Cannes, Telluride, and New York Film Festivals.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Mexican superstar Omar Chaparro (No Manches Frida series & Pokemon Detective Pikachu) has been set for the lead role in Tequila Re-Pasado, an original comedy from Sony Pictures International Productions.Spanish director María Ripoll is helming the pic, re-teaming with Sony after recently wrapping Guerra de Likes in Mexico for the studio. The new film is adapted from an original script by Judd Pillot and Gerald B.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBTS have dropped an alternate video for their blockbuster new single “Dynamite,” filmed on the same set but with different angles — and a few amusing bloopers as well.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: With audiences starting to trickle back into UK entertainment shows, Top Gear has come up with its own unique solution to social distancing measures: inviting fans to turn up and watch the recording from the safety of their own cars.BBC Studios will begin shooting the link sections of Top Gear from September 8 and has asked those attending to join a “drive-in” audience, from which they will be able to view Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris, and Paddy

“The Equalizer” screenwriter Richard Wenk is writing the script. Palak Patel is overseeing for Sony.Born into Russian aristocracy, Sergei Kravinoff a.k.a.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures TV has put in development National Enquirer: The Untold Story!, a limited series inspired by the 2019 feature documentary Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer, produced and directed by Mark Landsman.

Dave McNary Film ReporterOlivia Wilde has signed a deal with Sony Pictures to develop and direct an untitled, female-centric Marvel film project for the studio, sources have told Variety.Representatives for Sony and Marvel had no comment about the project.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: For Life writer/producer Sonay Hoffman is expanding her relationship with Sony Pictures TV, signing a multi-year overall deal with the studio behind the praised and timely legal drama. Under the pact, Hoffman will develop dramas across all platforms.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The inclusive Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) was the perfect stage to launch Gemstone Studios’ inaugural Rising Storytellers Search, a competition seeking underrepresented female-led narratives. The competition was unveiled today during the fest which continues through August 16.Gemstone, a boutique production unit of Sony Pictures Television, is teaming with Ideas United and Geena Davis’ BFF for Rising Storytellers.

Daytime talk show The Doctors unveiled on Wednesday that bestselling author and medical expert Dr. Ian Smith will be hosting Season 13.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is expanding its relationship with Hank Steinberg in a big way. The studio has signed a big five-year overall deal with the creator of the praised — and timely — Sony TV legal drama series For Life, which has been renewed for a second season by ABC.Under the pact, Steinberg will continue as executive producer and showrunner on For Life.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures will be hosting a high-end dual big screen drive-in experience on the Culver City, CA lot starting this Friday, Aug. 14.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineBoasting a 15-year career as a set decorator, Matthew Flood Ferguson found his first major TV design job in Netflix miniseries Hollywood, on which he took a deep dive into the minutiae of Hollywood’s Golden Age.Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the starry drama is set in Post-World War II Tinseltown, following a group of actors and filmmakers who will do whatever it takes to realize their dreams.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co and Nia Long are teaming up with Sony Pictures TV to bring the saga of on power, race  and political intrigue of Goldie Taylor’s 2018 best seller Paper Gods to ABC.Fatal Affair and Dear White People’s Long will star and executive produce the project in development with Get Lifted co-founder Mike Jackson and showrunner Tash Gray.Paper Gods spotlights the struggles and battles professionally and personally