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Saturday, July 18, 2026

Sydney Sweeney to Star in Retelling of SLEEPY HOLLOW

Sony Pictures has landed the new reimagining of "Sleepy Hollow", which is simply titled "Hollow", in a competitive bidding war. Based on Lindsey Anderson Beer's debut novel, the film will be directed, produced and adapted by Beer, and it stars Sydney Sweeney ("Euphoria", "The Housemaid"). Beer also wrote and directed 2023's "Pet Sematary: Bloodlines" and wrote and executive produced "Sierra Burgess Is a Loser".

Beer's novel is a reimagining of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", told through the perspective of Katrina Van Tassel. Reframing one of literature's most iconic heroines, the novel positions Van Tassel not as a romantic prize but as the central figure in a dangerous mystery and seductive supernatural love triangle. The story blends gothic atmosphere, psychological intrigue and erotic thriller elements into a contemporary, high-concept reinvention.

The novel will be published by Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in fall 2027. Translation rights to the book have sold around the world, with record offers from some territories, which is a rare feat for a novel at launch, especially a debut.

Margot Robbie's LuckyChap and Sweeney's Honey Trap banner are also producing. This is Honey Trap's first time producing a feature film, as the newly launched company recently inked a first-look deal with Sony Pictures. Alexandra Banks and Spencer Walken will executive produce for Beer's Lab Brew banner.

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Thursday, April 16, 2026

R-Rated BLOODBORNE Video Game Adaptation In the Works At Sony

The PlayStation video game "Bloodborne" is being adapted for the big screen by Sony Pictures. The studio is developing an R-rated movie that will embrace the carnage that made the game so popular. During the studio's CinemaCon presentation, Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, made a promise that the long-rumored film will be "very true" to the gory spirit of the video game,

"Bloodborne" was developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game follows a Hunter through the decrepit Gothic, Victorian-era inspired city of Yharnam, whose inhabitants are afflicted with a blood-borne disease which transforms the residents into horrific beasts. Attempting to find the source of the plague, the player's character unravels the city's mysteries while fighting beasts and cosmic beings.

The film is co-produced by PlayStation Productions, Lyrical Animation and prominent Irish YouTuber and content creator Seán McLoughlin, better known by his pseudonym JackSepticEye. Lyrical Media, parent company of Lyrical Animation, is co-financing "Bloodborne" with Sony Pictures.

Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions are also collaborating on the "Helldivers" video game adaptation directed by Justin Lin ("Fast & Furious" franchise), and starring Jason Momoa. The studio also recently completed filming the big screen adaptation of Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda" directed by Wes Ball ("The Maze Runner") and produced by series creator Shigeru Miyamoto. The Zelda movie stars Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link, and Bo Bragason as Princess Zelda.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

New CHARLIE'S ANGELS Movie in the Works at Sony

Sony Pictures is in early development on a new big screen version of "Charlie's Angels", just in time for the iconic franchise's 50th anniversary. Screenwriter Pete Chiarelli has been tapped to pen a screenplay for the new project. Chiarelli is best known for his work on "Crazy Rich Asians", "Now You See Me 2", "The Proposal" and Sony Pictures Animation's recently released "GOAT".

The original 1976 "Charlie's Angels" series aired for five seasons consisting of 115 episodes. It followed a team of three women working at the Townsend private detective agency and starred Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith in the lead roles, and John Forsythe voicing their unseen boss, Charlie Townsend, who ran the whole operation via telephone. Cheryl Ladd joined the show in season 2.

The original show was previously adapted for the big screen with the 2000 film of the same name directed by McG and starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu. The film was box office hit, grossing $264 million worldwide. It was followed by the 2003 sequel "Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.".

Recent attempts to reboot the franchise were less successful. A TV series starring Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor was canceled after eight of its 13-episode first season ordered by ABC. In 2019, a new movie directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska was released in theaters, but flopped, earning only $73 million worldwide.

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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Tom Holland Reveals SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY Suit

Tom Holland has revealed his new Spidey suit for Marvel's upcoming film "Spider-Man: Brand New Day". The full unveiling arrived on Saturday morning, following a brief tease on August 1st, which was national Spider-Man Day. The reveal came via a social media video, in which the actor simply asks: "We ready ?"

Are you ready? - 7.31.2026 pic.twitter.com/9evwMzflxM
— Spider-Man Movie (@SpiderManMovie) August 2, 2025

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" will be released in theaters on July 31, 2026. This is the fourth installment in the Sony/Disney Spider-Man series set in the MCU. The last film in the series was "Spider-Man: No Way Home", in which Holland shared the screen with Sony's two previous Spider-Men played by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.

"Brand New Day" will take inspiration from the Spider-Man comic storyline of the same name, in which Spidey makes a deal with the devil Mephisto to make the world forget his identity and to resurrect Aunt May (who perished in "No Way Home"), but it also dissolves his marriage to MJ and effectively reboots his world.

The film is directed by "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" helmer Destin Daniel Cretton, and will also star Sadie Sink and Liza Colon-Zayas. Jon Bernthal's Punisher and Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner aka the Hulk, will also appear in the movie.

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Monday, July 21, 2025

Aaron Sorkin to Write and Direct THE SOCIAL NETWORK PART II

Aaron Sorkin To Write And Direct Social Network Part 2

"The Social Network" isn't on my list of movies I expected to get a sequel. Yet, here we are. Aaron Sorkin has been set to direct and write a sequel tentatively titled "The Social Network Part II" for Sony Pictures. Furthermore, the film is said to not be a straight sequel, but rather a follow-up to the original movie. It's still in very early pre-production, but it seems that Sorkin is already looking for his cast.

The 2010 biopic was directed by David Fincher from a script by Sorkin based on the 2009 book "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich, and it chronicled the origins of Facebook and its creator Mark Zuckerberg. The cast featured Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer and Max Minghella. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $224 million worldwide against a $40 million budget. It went on to receive eight Oscar nominations, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Score and Editing.

In the sequel, Sorkin will explore the story behind the Wall Street Journal's "The Facebook Files" by Jeff Horowitz, an explosive series of articles published in October 2021 that exposed the inner workings of — and multiple harms caused by — the world's largest social network. The new film project is in development with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser producing.

Throughout the years, Sorkin has expressed his interest in doing a follow-up, but couldn't find the right angle. Following the events of January 6, 2021, when the U.S. Capitol was attacked, Sorkin found new inspiration saying in an interview last year that he believed Facebook played a part. According to sources, the new film is not a "January 6" movie and will focus not just on the 2020 election but also Facebook's effect on teens, preteens, violence and countries outside the U.S.

Sorkin's previous directing credits include "Molly's Game", "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and "Being the Ricardos".

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Friday, March 14, 2025

Sadie Sink Joins Upcoming SPIDER-MAN Sequel Starring Tom Holland

Sadie Sink Joins Upcoming SPIDER-MAN Movie Starring Tom Holland

"Stranger Things" star Sadie Sink has signed on to star in the upcoming "Spider-Man" sequel from Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios. Tom Holland is already set to return as Peter Parker, and production is expected to start later this year.

The film is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton ("Just Mercy", " Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings") from a script by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Producers include Amy Pascal and Marvel president Kevin Feige.

Holland is currently filming Christopher Nolan's epic production "The Odyssey", and he will start shooting "Spider-Man" once he has wrapped production on Nolan's movie.

Sink can next be seen in the final season of the Netflix series "Stranger Things", which recently wrapped production will premiere later this year. She also stars in the Searchlight musical "O'Dessa", which just had its world premiere at SXSW, and it's set to bow next week on Hulu. Before starring in "Spider-Man", she will first appear in the Broadway play "John Proctor Is the Villain" which opens on April 4th.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Sydney Sweeney to Star in New BARBARELLA Film

Emmy-nominated "Euphoria" star Sydney Sweeney is attached to star in and executive produce Sony's new "Barbarella" movie based on Jean-Claude Forest's French comic book series, which was previously adapted into the 1968 movie directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda. Brad Fuller is also producing.

The film is currently in early development, with no writer or director attached. No story elements have been revealed at this point. The 1968 movie follows an astronaut from the 41st century who sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy. While not a box-office hit, the original film has since become a cult classic, and in 2020 the Forest estate announced plans for a new film.

Sweeney is also set to star in Sony's Marvel flick "Madame Webb" opposite Dakota Johnson, and the studio also acquired "The Registration", with Sweeney on board to produce and star. She recently finished work on the Tony Tost film "National Anthem", which also stars Paul Walter Hauser, Simon Rex and Halsey, and Tina Satter's debut feature "Reality".

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt to Lead New GHOSTBUSTERS Movie

It looks like Sony isn't satisfied with just one "Ghostbusters" movie. The studio is looking to add a kind of spinoff to Paul Feig's female-centric reboot, one that will apparently be led by Channing Tatum ("22 Jump Street") and Chris Pratt ("Guardians of the Galaxy"). It also appears that Sony wants to bring in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" helmers Joe and Anthony Russo to direct the movie, and Drew Pearce ("Iron Man 3") will pen the script. Of course, all this has not been officially confirmed but it's credited as solid intel.

Originally the news broke out as a rumor that the studio was looking to give audiences a male-driven film more similar to the original, but various sources have since denied this rumor. Sony is, however, planning to produce a total of four "Ghostbusters" movies. And to think that a few months ago we barely had one new "Ghostbusters" movie in the works. The plan is to give the franchise a kind of "Marvel Cinematic Universe" approach which aims at bringing together the cast of Feig's film (Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones) with that of the Tatum/Pratt installment.

Also, Badass Digest reports that Sony plans to do a prequel later on, one that will have nothing to do with the original film, however.

All this seems to indicate that there's some really intricate stuff going on with the franchise at this point and they've got everything mapped out. Let's hope it works out better than it did with the "Spider-Man" franchise.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Drew Goddard to Write and Direct SPIDER-MAN Reboot

As we last reported, Sony and Marvel have joined hands to reboot the "Spider-Man" franchise after the failure of "The Amazing Spider-Man". And now we know who will be assigned this gigantic task. Drew Goddard, director/co-writer of "The Cabin in the Woods" as well as "World War Z" and "Cloverfield" scribe, has been hired to write and direct the new reboot. Goddard was previously set to direct Sony's "The Sinister Six", a spinoff for "The Amazing Spider-Man", but now that the series has been dropped, the fate of that movie is also in question.

According to various reports, the "Spider-Man" reboot will not be a new origin story and will start out with the superhero already established. The studio is currently looking for a fresh young actor for the part of a high-school Spider-Man who will grow up along with the franchise. It is also reported that the first film will involve Spider-Man fighting Iron Man and trying to join the Avengers, which would be similar to the Marvel comics. It will also introduce the Sinister Six which could lead to that spinoff movie Goddard was attached to before these current events. Marvel and Sony also plan to give Spidey supporting roles in other Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including "Captain America: Civil War", while MCU character are expected to appear in Spider-Man films.

The "Spider-Man" reboot is expected to be released on July 28th, 2017.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

New SPIDER-MAN Movie Included in Marvel's Cinematic Universe

Spider-Man joins Marvel Cinematic Universe

It's official. Spider-Man will return to Marvel. Sony Pictures released an official statement which confirms what has been rumored for some time, that the studio will team-up with Marvel Studios for the new Spider-Man films which will be produced by Kevin Feige. The move was prompted by the poor results of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" which made it difficult to advance the franchise. According to the press release, the web-slinger will first be featured in a Cinematic Universe movie, followed by a solo installment. The MCU feature will be released on July 28, 2017. Andrew Garfield has not been mentioned, so it's reasonable to assume that given the franchise's new direction, the role will be recast. This means that some of the other Marvel movies will get new release dates to allow for this change. The new date shifts are as follows:

"Thor: Ragnarok" moves to November 3rd 2017.
"Black Panther" moves to July 6th 2018.
"Captain Marvel" moves to November 2nd 2018.
"Inhumans" moves to July 12th 2019.

The release dates for "Avengers: Infinity War", "Captain America: Civil War", "Doctor Strange" and "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" are still the same (Read more about those here).

Check out the full press release after the jump:

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Synopsis Revealed for Neill Blomkamp’s Sci-Fi Film CHAPPIE

Writer/director Neill Blomkamp has become one of the few truly original filmmakers who can deliver smart, emotional and thrilling films. This year's "Elysium" and especially his debut feature "District 9", are proof of that. Now, even though "Elysium" is neither a box-office hit, nor a failure, Sony Pictures has decided to finance Blomkamp's third ambitious sci-fi flick, a story about "a robot imbued with artificial intelligence who is stolen by two local gangsters who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes." His frequent collaborator Sharlto Copley is already onboard to voice the robot and Ninja and Yolandi Visser, the members of the rap-rave group Die Antwoord, will play the two local gangsters. Here is Sony's press release which also includes the film's official synopsis:

" Sony Pictures Entertainment and MRC have agreed to co-produce and co-finance Chappie, the next film from writer-director Neill Blomkamp, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures and Hannah Minghella, president of Production for the studio, and MRC. The film will be marketed and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures.

Blomkamp will direct the film from a screenplay he has written with Terri Tatchell. He will also produce the film with Simon Kinberg. Production is expected to begin this fall.

Chappie tells the story of a robot imbued with artificial intelligence who is stolen by two local gangsters who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes. The film will star Sharlto Copley as the voice of Chappie, with Ninja and Yolandi Visser, voices of the South African Zef counter-culture movement and members of rap-rave duo Die Antwoord, as the two gangsters.

Commenting on the announcement, Belgrad said, “We’re huge fans of Neill Blomkamp – it’s a real thrill to be continuing our relationship with such a visionary and important filmmaker. Neill has proven that he is a true original voice and we expect that Chappie will strike a chord with worldwide audiences in the same way that District 9 and Elysium have. We love the script he and Terri have written and we’re looking forward to working again with our friends at MRC.”

“Neill is an incredibly talented and bold artist and we are proud to continue to support his work. We are looking forward to partnering with the team at Sony on Chappie,” said Modi Wiczyk, co-CEO of MRC.

The announcement comes as Sony Pictures and MRC released Elysium, Blomkamp’s second feature, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, which Blomkamp wrote and directed and also produced with Bill Block and Simon Kinberg. Elysium opened at #1 in the U.S. this weekend, and was also #1 in Russia, Sweden, Taiwan and Ukraine. Sony Pictures also released Blomkamp’s first feature film,District 9, which took in over $200 million worldwide and earned four Oscar® nominations, including Best Picture.

Hannah Minghella and Rachel O’Connor will oversee Chappie for Sony Pictures; Brye Adler will oversee for Media Rights Capital."

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Monday, July 23, 2012

RESIDENT EVIL: DAMNATION (2012) - Trailer and Poster

Official Synopsis: United States Special agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into a small Eastern Europe country to verify rumors that Bio Organic Weapons (B.O.W.s) are being used in war. Right after his infiltration, the US government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the B.O.W.s

Release Date: 25 September 2012 (US)

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

STARSHIP TROOPERS: INVASION (2012) - Theatrical Trailer

Official Synopsis: A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence safely back to Earth. Carl Jenkins, now ministry of Paranormal Warfare, takes the starship on a clandestine mission before its rendezvous with the Alesia and goes missing in the nebula. Now, the battle-hardened troopers are charged with a rescue mission that may lead to a much more sinister consequence than they ever could have imagined....

Release Date: 21 July 2012 (Japan)

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

STARSHIP TROOPERS: INVASION (2012) - Trailer and Poster

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Monday, February 14, 2011

New Spiderman Movie Title Announced !

And the title is : "The Amazing Spiderman" ! Yeah, I think it's corny too. Sure, it's a tribute to the original comic book, but come on. No matter how hard they try to make this movie feel like it respects the source material, the fact of the matter still is that this "reboot" is just 3 years away from the last Spidey movie. And even though Sam Raimi's third entry was a disappointment, it was still pretty good. And the second one is still one of the best comic book adaptations out there. Did we really need a "reboot" ? For those of you who don't know, "The Amazing Spiderman" will be directed by Marc Webb ("500 Days of Summer") and will star "The Social Network's Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker.