Sony Takes Full Control Of Left Bank Pictures In Deal Valuing ‘The Crown’ Producer At $124M

UPDATE, 8:30 PM: After nearly two years, Marilyn Manson has reached an agreement with Esmé Bianco to end the Game of Thrones actress’ sexual assault and sexual battery case against him.

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video UK and Ireland had boarded feature documentary Confessions of a Psycho Killer.

BFI Distribution has picked up the well-received Irish drama God’s Creatures for theatrical release in the UK. The deal also includes a partnership with independent Irish distributor Volta Pictures, who have acquired the film for Ireland.

EXCLUSIVE: Main Event Media, the production company behind Peacock’s Punky Brewster reboot and Netflix dating format Dated and Related, is moving to Religion of Sports with an exclusive production deal.

Sony Pictures Television is plotting a return to the syndicated talk show arena with a half-hour late-night strip hosted by Craig Ferguson. Produced by Whisper North, a division of SPT-backed production company Whisper, Channel Surf with Craig Ferguson shot a pilot in the UK earlier this month and is being taken out to potential buyers by distributor SPT this week in Los Angeles.

In her debut as host of the Critics Choice Awards, Chelsea Handler opted for a traditional Hollywood roast in her opening monologue.

EXCLUSIVE: A+E Studios and Range Media Partners have prevailed in a competitive auction surrounding Swedish crime novelist Christoffer Carlsson’s International bestseller Blaze Me a Sun and its follow-up, Under the Storm, securing film and TV rights to both titles.

EXCLUSIVE: Oliver Trevena (Plane) will exec produce and star in the dramatic thriller Social Capital, from writer-director Emilio Mauro.

Netflix, now with advertising to sell, has swooped in to take the traditional CBS slot capping off the traditional broadcast upfront week in May.

Scots singer Joesef will be heading to the east end this weekend as he launches his brand new album Permanent Damage.

SkyShowtime has struck its first major content deal, picking up exclusive rights to 21 HBO Max Europe originals, most of which were ditched by the streamer last year following its European programing cull.

EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation, with five streamers/networks bidding, Netflix has nabbed a series adaptation of Adam Silvera’s No. 1 New York Times bestselling YA novel They Both Die at the End, I have learned. The project, which hails from Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen, Yellowjackets executive producer Drew Comins and studio eOne as well as music superstar Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny, has received a significant, script-to-series commitment, I hear. It marks Van Dusen’s return to Netflix where he created and served as executive producer/showrunner on the first two seasons of Shondaland’s hit period drama Bridgerton, each of them ranking as Netflix’s most popular English-language TV series at the time of their launch.

Si Litvinoff, the executive producer of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth, died Dec. 26 in Los Angeles. He was 93.

Prince Harry has a lot more to say about that 2019 physical confrontation with Prince William!

Sony’s “Gran Turismo” is an interesting experiment — a movie adaptation of the long running video game series that also manages to be based on a true story. And at the Consumer Electronic Show 2023 on Wednesday, the studio unveiled a preview that seeks to assure you this will in fact be the kind of movie you’ll want to watch in a movie theater.

Columbia Pictures has unveiled a sneak look at upcoming film Gran Turismo at the Sony Group Corporation’s 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference in Las Vegas, NV. Based on the Playstation Studios video game, the film will be in movie theaters August 11, 2023.