Sony Pictures Digital president Bob Osher, who oversaw Sony Animation and Imageworks for the past seven years, has been fired, according to knowledgeable sources. Thursday’s firing comes amid an…
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Charles Stone III's “Lila and Eve,” starring Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez. The film premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival…
Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Pat Mills’ comedy “Guidance,” which premiered in September at the Toronto Film Festival. Mills stars as a pathologically immature former child actor who…
Meryl Streep will narrate the feature documentary "Shout Gladi Gladi,” co-directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy and focusing on women's health in Africa. The film has an emphasis on fistula, a…
Hyperion Media Group and Identity Films have picked up the rights to George Rowe’s “Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang,” Variety has learned…
Stone Village Productions' Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell have preemptively acquired film and TV rights to Cassie Beasley's debut novel “Circus Mirandus.” The magic-themed story follows Micah…
Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed a two-year first-look deal with Josh Bratman's Immersive Pictures. Bratman will produce half a dozen projects for the studio under the deal: –“The Harlem…
Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi” on the heels of the film winning the Golden Bear and the Fipresci International Critic’s Prize at the Berlin Film Festival…
Warner Bros. is coming on board to co-finance "Tomb Raider" with Graham King and MGM with Warners distributing. Evan Daugherty has been tapped to write the script. His credits include “Teenage…
Will Ferrell will star in and produce New Line’s comedy “The House” with “Neighbors” writer Andrew J. Cohen making his directorial debut. New Line won an auction for the script, written by Cohen and…
