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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Sony Pictures is under fire for a scene in its new “Peter Rabbit” film, which critics say trivializes food allergies when a herd of rambunctious bunnies weaponize blackberries to gang up on their human nemesis. The controversial sequence shows rabbits attacking the movie’s villain, human character Tom McGregor, with the fruits, to which he is allergic. After a berry flies into his mouth, the character attempts to inject himself […]
NEW YORK CITY, New York (Reuters) — Two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington promoted his latest film “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” in New York on Monday (November 20). For the title role, Washington underwent a striking transformation as a brilliant defense attorney lacking people skills, a man whose life has been spent fighting for others’ civil rights – and paid a price for his activism. The role was written for Washington by Director Dan Gilroy (‘Nightcrawler’) […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese conglomerate Wanda announced plans Friday to invest in movies produced by Sony Pictures under an agreement that moves the company closer to its goal of becoming a major Hollywood player. Owned by one of the country’s richest men, billionaire Wang Jianlin, Wanda is seeking to shift its focus from property to services and entertainment as profits wane in China’s real estate sector. The movie deal, Wanda’s first with one of […]
“Hotel Transylvania 2” took the top spot at the box office this weekend, pulling in an impressive $47.5 million, and setting a new September record. Sony Pictures’ $80 million animated sequel starring Adam Sandler even surpassed the first “Hotel Transylvania’s” $42.5 million open in 2012. “The Intern” starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway came in second at the box office with a total of $18.2 million. The Warner Brothers workplace comedy by Nancy Meyers, […]
SEPTEMBER 14 (Reuters) — The romantic thriller “The Perfect Guy” starring Michael Ealy, Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut and Rutina Wesley took the top spot at the box office, bringing in $26.7 million in ticket sales. It narrowly edged out the horror film “The Visit” that brought in $25.7 million. Sony’s faith-based drama “War Room” took third place and “A Walk in the Woods” starring Robert Redford was in fourth place. “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” […]
Spider Man is set to join a host of other super heroes. Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have reached a deal to partner on the next installment of the Spider Man franchise, uniting the web-slinging super hero with Marvel’s comic book universe. Under the agreement, Spider-Man will appear in an upcoming Marvel film, and Marvel characters, which include Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, could appear in later Spider-Man films. Robert Pattinson hit the red […]
Sony Pictures, who announced just a week ago that they will be delaying the release of “The Interview” due to a massive cyber attack, will now be showing the satirical movie this December 25, but only in a limited number of theaters, according to Reuters News. Initially, Sony made the decision to retract the release after many theaters opted to not show the film because of security concerns. According to the Washington Times’ website, a petition […]
(Reuters) – Nearly half of Americans believe Sony Pictures made the wrong decision by canceling the theatrical release of the comedy “The Interview,” the film that provoked a cyberattack on the studio, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday. Forty-seven percent of respondents said they disagreed with Sony scrapping the film last Wednesday, after several movie theater chains chose not to screen the raunchy satire that depicts the assassination of North Korean leader Kim […]
North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Tuesday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said. New Hampshire-based Dyn said the reason for the outage was not known but could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack. Several U.S. officials close to the investigations of the attack on Sony Pictures said […]
(Reuters) – Eight days after a massive cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Hollywood studio was still struggling to restore some systems on Tuesday evening as investigators combed for evidence to identify the culprit. Some employees at the Sony Corp entertainment unit were given new computers to replace ones that had been attacked with the rare data-wiping virus, which had made their machines unable to operate, according to a person with knowledge of Sony’s […]
