Will Smith’s con artist comedy “Focus” has opened moderately with $900,000 in Thursday night showings in the U.S. The Warner Bros. film has been tracking to launch with around $21 million for the…
Sony subsidiary Affirm Films and Mass Hysteria Entertainment are teaming on a movie based on the memoir “The Devil in Pew Number Seven.” The book, written by Rebecca Nichols Alonzo with Bob DeMoss…
Blake Lively and Jason Clarke are starring in the romance-drama “All I See Is You” with Marc Forster directing. SC International Pictures will finance and produce. Forster, whose credits include…
Financing problems have shut down production of action-thriller “Wake,” starring Bruce Willis, which had been shooting in Cleveland. "Benaroya Pictures is working quickly to remedy the delay in…
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…
