Saturday Night director Jason Reitman and music composer Jon Batiste said at Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles that music is the “villain” of the Columbia Pictures film. Batiste said during Saturday’s panel that after several conversations with Reitman, “it became very clear” that Saturday Night’s…

Lo, the enduring miracle of the film awards year. Just when things begin to look hopeless—and it was looking pretty bleak a month ago—intriguing, maybe even watchable, prospects suddenly sprout. The movies are like Osiris, that old Egyptian resurrection god: You just can't keep 'em down. As August…

Columbia Pictures and Blumhouse on Wednesday unveiled the first trailer for Afraid, their thriller formerly titled They Listen, starring John Cho and Katherine Waterston, which is slated for release in theaters on August 30. Written and directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy), Afraid watches as Curtis…

Tom Rothman, the Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman and CEO, wined and dined a select few at a splendidly swish soirée Friday at Mamo Michelangelo in Antibes, hosted by Charles Finch as part of his annual Filmmakers Dinner honoring 100 years of Columbia Pictures, and there was something he said about why…

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures, the municipality of Cannes is presenting a free photographic exhibition titled "Lighting the Way: From the Torch Lady to Leading Ladies." The exhibit was inaugurated Friday by Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group president Sanford Panitch, who was introduced by…

EXCLUSIVE: Even though his traditionalist strategy made him an unlikely candidate, we included Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman in our 2022 Cannes Disruptors magazine. At a time when every other major prioritized the building of streaming services above all else because of the Netflix…

Sony announced on Thursday that its new I Know What You Did Last Summer film from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) will be released via Columbia Pictures on July 18, 2025. Written by Kaytin Robinson & Sam Lansky, off a script by Leah McKendrick, the film’s plot is under wraps for now…

EXCLUSIVE: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures, the municipality of Cannes will present a free photographic exhibition titled "Lighting the Way: From the Torch Lady to Leading Ladies." The photos will be on display for the general public on Cours Félix Faure in Cannes from May 13 to…

Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there's nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has raised Maia Eyre to SVP of Creative Development at Columbia Pictures. She will report to Sanford Panitch, President of Sony's Motion Picture Group.  Eyre most recently brought in and oversaw box office hit romantic comedy, Anyone But You, starring Sydney Sweeney and…

Sony on Wednesday released the trailer for Harold and the Purple Crayon, the live-action adaptation of the classic kids book. The Columbia Pictures film, directed by Oscar-nominated Ice Age and Rio franchise veteran Carlos Saldanha, hits theaters August 2. Zachary Levi stars as Harold, the subject…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Colombia Pictures has acquired the rights to Teddy Wayne's upcoming dark thriller, The Winner which Amy Pascal has come aboard to produce through her Pascal Pictures with Rachel O’Connor. Wayne is adapting his own tome for the big screen. The novel hits shelves…