PRESS RELEASES

NEW YORK (May 16, 2018) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all rights in the US, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand to Academy Award® winner Denys Arcand's THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. The film, a follow up to his critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE, is written and directed by Arcand and produced by Academy Award® winner Denise Robert.

CANNES, FRANCE (May 10, 2018) - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired North American and Latin American rights to Nadine Labaki's CAPERNAUM. The film is set to premiere next Thursday at Cannes, where it screens in competition. CAPERNAUM marks a return to Cannes for the Lebanese filmmaker, whose two previous films, CARAMEL and WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (winner of the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival) premiered at the festival, and reunites Labaki with Sony Pictures Classics, which distributed WHERE DO WE GO NOW?.

CULVER CITY, Calif., May 10, 2018 - Sony Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Jason Reitman's The Front Runner, starring Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga and J.K. Simmons it was announced today by Michael Helfand and Joe Matukewicz, Co-Heads of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, and Aaron L. Gilbert, President & CEO, BRON Studios, which produced and financed the film. A fall release, timed to awards and election coverage, is planned.

[Culver City, CA - April 23, 2018] - After industry-wide competition, Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced the company has closed a multi-year development and production deal with superstar athlete Stephen Curry across its film, television, and worldwide partnerships operations in the biggest media deal of any athlete to date.

Culver City, CA [April 20, 2018] -- TriStar pictures announced today that they have acquired worldwide rights to Happiest Season from writing duo Clea DuVall and Mary Holland. DuVall, who was recently recognized as one of The Alice Initiative's top 20 rising filmmakers, will direct the holiday-season romantic comedy, making this her first studio project. Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner will produce with Jaclyn Huntling overseeing for Temple Hill.

LOS ANGELES, CA (April 18, 2018) - LA-based studio The H Collective has entered into a deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) to distribute and market up to four films per year globally.

CULVER CITY, Calif., April 11, 2018 - The blockbuster motion picture Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle last night crossed $403.714 million at the domestic box office to become Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film of all time domestically, passing the studio's 2002 hit Spider-Man.

March 9, 2018 -- Baton Rouge, LA -- Principal Photography has begun on the WWII dramatic thriller GREYHOUND, starring and written by Tom Hanks, based on C.S. Forester's novel "The Good Shepherd." Aaron Schneider (GET LOW) is directing.

Elisabeth Shue (BATTLE OF THE SEXES), Rob Morgan (MUDBOUND) and Stephen Graham (THE IRISHMAN) also star.

Culver City, CA - March 1, 2018 -- TriStar Pictures announced today they have acquired worldwide rights to Dahomey Amazons of Benin spartan tale The Woman King, inspired by true events and based on an original story by Maria Bello starring Academy Award-winning actresses Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong'o. The film is produced by Cathy Schulman's Welle Entertainment, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon of JuVee Productions, and Maria Bello of Jack Blue Productions.

Culver City CA - February 28, 2018 -- Quentin Tarantino's ninth film will be titled ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, and will star Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group announced today. The film will be released worldwide on August 9, 2019.