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Director Zach Cregger’s “Resident Evil” has notched a notable box office milestone, climbing to $400 million in global ticket sales. His reboot of the ’90s zombie video game has earned $157.399 million in North America and $242.6 million overseas for a worldwide haul of exactly $400 million. It’s now the highest-grossing installment in the 24-year-old […]
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Sony Pictures Television has sealed a multiyear, first-look deal with content creator Thea Von Engelbrechten, who’s behind the popular “Moletown Drama” social platforms — which boast 2.5 million TikTok followers and 1 million Instagram followers. As part of the deal, Sony has the first-look rights to develop and produce original series from Von Engelbrechten. First […]
Bob Buziak, former president of both RCA Records and Sony’s TriStar Music Group, died on October 19, a rep confirms to Variety. No cause of death was announced; he was 83. Buziak was best known for reviving RCA’s fortunes in the 1980s with hit albums by Bruce Hornsby, Eurythmics and Love and Rockets, not to […]
Sony Pictures Television hired Lauren Glaubach, a former YouTube and Pinterest content exec, in the newly created role of executive vice president, distribution, digital and social platforms. Glaubach will head up Sony Pictures Entertainment’s continued expansion across YouTube and other digital platforms, reporting to Jason Spivak and Paul Littmann, presidents of distribution and networks at […]
TURIN, Italy — “Culture is what you tolerate,” said Sony Pictures Imageworks president Michelle Grady, reflecting on bad bosses and how studios build a workplace where people can thrive. “You work, you put a lot of energy into building it, emulating it, encouraging people to understand what it is, and then, you know, make some […]
Sony’s PlayStation will launch a new Crunchyroll anime hub within its PlayStation 5 gaming console’s home screen next year to more closely align the company’s anime projects and anime-inspired games. Launching in spring 2027, the new PS5 anime destination is “designed to make it easier for the PlayStation community to discover and explore the anime […]
Sony is in talks to acquire Christopher McQuarrie and Michael B. Jordan’s big-screen adaptation of the popular “Battlefield” video game after a multi-studio bidding war. Sony declined to comment on the negotiations. McQuarrie is attached to write, direct and produce the feature adaptation of Electronic Arts’ military first-person shooter game, with Jordan attached to produce. […]
Connected TV is changing what Indian media companies make, not just where audiences watch it, with Prime Video now developing shows around whether audiences will watch them together, executives said at the FICCI-Frames conference in Mumbai. Streaming began as a largely solo experience, Gaurav Gandhi, VP and head of Prime Video for Asia-Pacific and Australia-New […]
Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group aren’t done with Suno in federal court. The two labels filed a new, 45-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the District of Massachusetts against the AI music-generation company, alleging Suno’s new model, backed by several music companies, still infringed on Sony Music and UMG’s copyrighted works. […]
