Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions & Stage 6 Films Expand Ranks – AFM

Clifton Collins Jr. has been delivering affecting supporting work in major films like “Traffic” and “Capote” for over 20 years, but the actor is hardly what you would call a household name.

EXCLUSIVE: BET has picked up the pilot script of Jinho “Piper” Ferreira’s The Line from Mark Gordon Pictures for development at BET+. Inspired by true events, the show focuses on Oakland activists Ricky and Angela Roberts, who have been local figures in the anti-police movement for years.

Naman Ramachandran Asia-based production firm Beach House Pictures has acquired a majority stake in Tan Si En and Kris Ong’s Singapore-based Momo Film Co.Tan Si En’s producer credits include 2021 Cannes selection “The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” and Anthony Chen’s Toronto, London and Pingyao title “Wet Season.” Kris Ong, a script consultant at HBO Asia, is also a writer-director whose latest short film “Sunday” had its world premiere at the Palm Springs International Shortfest in 2019.

Henry Woolf was an actor with a long career on stage and screen that included a dual role in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”A London native, Woolf appeared on British TV in shows including “Doctor Who,” in which he played the Collector in the 1977 serial “The Sun Makers.” He also appeared in “Rutland Weekend Television,” “Steptoe and Son,” and the BBC adaptation of “Prince Caspian.” Woolf had a small but memorable dual role in the cult classic film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” playing the

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.

Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan has commented on the ongoing stock shortages of the PlayStation 5, addressing the “historic demand” that has meant many would-be customers still can’t actually buy the much-sought console.In a blog post celebrating the PS5’s first birthday, Ryan thanked “everyone in the community for your patience”, adding that “we understand the inventory constraints remain a source of frustration for many of our customers.”“Rest assured that we are

who died in September, was previously attached to play Doc Broadus.Whitaker most recently starred opposite Jennifer Hudson in the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” and he can currently be seen in Epix’s “Godfather of Harlem,” for which he also serves as executive producer. He is next set to star in “Havoc,” opposite Tom Hardy and Timothy Olyphant.

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

Manori Ravindran International EditorGugu Mbatha-Raw and Edgar Ramírez have teamed up for romantic drama “Nobody’s Heart,” directed by Isabel Coixet (“The Bookshop,” “The Secret Life of Words”).WestEnd Films has launched international sales on the film, which will be presented to buyers at the virtual American Film Market this week.

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: Haley Bennett has joined the cast of Chinonye Chukwu’s and Orion Pictures’ Till, starring opposite Whoopi Goldberg, Frankie Faison and Jalyn Hall. The film is currently shooting in Atlanta. Chukwu is writing and directing.

Basic vaccine mandates for children to go attend public school, enter the military, or travel to certain countries, are as old and common as the day is long. Still, the politicized furor over Covid-19 vaccine mandates continues to make headlines.

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

Sony Music Publishing has signed a new deal with the Gregg Allman estate to administer the late musician’s entire catalogue of songs worldwide.“Gregg Allman is without a doubt one of the greatest rock and roll songwriters of all time”, says Sony Music Publishing’s Global Chief Marketing Officer Brian Monaco.

The frontman of Midnight Oil has spoken about the recent exposé on the toxic corporate culture at Sony Music Australia, his band having worked with the Australian division of the major since 1981.

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.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNeil LaBute thriller “Out of the Blue” has rounded out its cast with “On the Rocks” and “Generation” star Chase Sui Wonders, who joins Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson and Hank Azaria.London-based outfit WestEnd Films has launched worldwide sales on the project, which will be shopped to buyers at next week’s virtual American Film Market.

Having already grossed $287.7 million worldwide, it’s unclear if “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” will get anywhere near the $850+ million gross of the original, but given the global pandemic, it still feels like another feather in Sony Pictures‘ cap, establishing that they can make a lot of money off the Marvel brand, even without direct help from Marvel Studios. And there are more of their Spiderverse films on the way.

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