Columbia Pictures Movie Updates

The high-concept project is based on a This American Life segment about people with a rare neurological disease called cataplexy.

Sony Pictures has re-teamed Bad Teacher writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg with director Jake Kasdan for a new untitled comedy.

Ben Ripley, who most recently penned Source Code, has been signed to a development deal with Sony to write a contemporary reimagining of Flatliners, the 1990 Joel Schumacher drama about medical students who dabble too far into near-death experiments that starred then-emerging actors like Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Will ...

As Comic-Con prepares to open in San Diego, the graphic novel publisher Top Cow and the Walt Disney-based producer Mandeville Films are teaming up to make a movie based on the comic-book property The Darkness.

Sony Pictures Animation has picked up the film rights to Chris Grine's Chickenhare to adapt into an animated feature with Dark Horse Entertainment.

Adam Sandler is checking into "Hotel Transylvania," as Sony's go-to funnyman has signed on to voice the lead role of Dracula in Sony Pictures Animation's 3D family comedy.

The studio just confirmed the title and the release date: May 17, 2013.

Columbia may pre-emptively pick up the Emmerich project, which at this time has no title and the plot is not known. What is known is that it is a spec script written by Emmerich, who is also attached to direct. The project, according to sources, came with a set of terms.

Hans Christian Andersens’ The Little Mermaid is the latest fairy tale to follow into the studios thirst for reimaginings. Sony has picked up Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale, a book by Carolyn Turgeon, for Country Strong filmmaker Shana Feste to write and direct.

Scott Rudin has just optioned "The Terrorist Search Engine," a recent New York Magazine profile of controversial counterterrorism expert witness Evan Kohlmann — and what's more, the Oscar-magnet producer is interested in adapting the piece as a possible starring vehicle for The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg.

Sony Pictures has acquired Save the Date, a pitch that will be written by Tom Gormican and produced by Neal Moritz and his Original Film banner.

Sony Pictures has acquired screen rights to the book Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip To Heaven And Back, written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent. Joe Roth will produce with T.D. Jakes.

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Gus Van Sant’s new film, RESTLESS, in North America, with Sony Pictures Releasing International distributing the film in the rest of the world.

Columbia isn’t even done shooting The Amazing Spider-Man, its Spider-Man reboot, but it has already begun working on a sequel. James Vanderbilt, who penned Amazing, will be back behind the keyboard for the continuation of the new movie franchise.

Sony may finally be conjuring ts long-gestating Houdini project. Helmer Francis Lawrence is in talks to develop a new take of the high-profile biopic, though so far no deal has materialized.

Columbia Pictures has acquired adaptation rights to adapt author Joshua Foer's tome "Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything." Matt Tolmach will produce through his banner Matt Tolmach Prods.

A vigorous spec auction ended late Friday night with Sony Pictures paying mid-six figures for Agent OX, a Daniel Kunka script about a human spy on an alien planet. Neal Moritz is producing.

Paramount Pictures has stepped up to become the distributor of the Martin Scorsese-directed 3D film Hugo Cabret, with the studio locking a November 23 release date, the day before Thanksgiving.

I'm told Warner Bros has emerged as the clear frontrunner to finance and take worldwide distribution on The Great Gatsby, the Baz Luhrmann-directed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary classic.

Black Panther is back in development at Marvel Studios. The company has hired Mark Bailey, who hails from the documentary film world, to pen a take on the character, the king of a resource-rich fictional African country who becomes a super hero. Marvel's Kevin Feige is producing.

In his latest keep-it-in-the-family move, Will Smith is exploring with Sony the potential for a remake of the musical Annie, with daughter Willow as the star, sources say.

Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg are in talks with Columbia Pictures to star in I Hate You Dad, a comedy that Sandler’s Happy Madison banner is producing. The story centers on a father who moves in on the eve of his son's wedding and promptly begins feuding with the bride-to-be. Sandler would play the dad, with Samberg as the so ...

In the first project he has set at Sony Pictures Entertainment since exiting the co-president post to become a producer, Matt Tolmach is at the center of a preemptive pitch deal for Frankenstein.