Sony Pictures Classics

Indies Fight for a Foothold in Season of Caped, Masked Superheroes

May 23, 2013 By Steve Pond 3 weeks ago

"There's a smart audience out there that wants more than superheroes and alien invasions," Sony Classics' Tom Bernard tells TheWrap

  

Sundance 2013: Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Festival Hit 'Before Midnight'

January 25, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 20 weeks ago

Richard Linklater directed the third installment in the talky Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy franchise

  

Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Rights to Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine'

January 8, 2013 By Brent Lang 23 weeks ago

"Blue Jasmine" stars Louis C.K., Alec Baldwin and Cate Blanchett

  

Sony Classics Buys Saudi Film 'Wadjda'

September 15, 2012 By Steve Pond 39 weeks ago

"Wadjda" is the first film ever shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, and the first Saudi film from a female director; SPC plans a 2013 release

  

Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid Film 'At Any Price'

August 3, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 45 weeks ago

"Chop Shop" filmmaker Ramin Bahrani directed and co-wrote the film

  

Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Israeli Secret Service Documentary, 'The Gatekeepers'

July 30, 2012 By Brent Lang 46 weeks ago

Sony Pictures Classics gets all North American rights

  

Woody Allen Comes to L.A. Film Fest With a Fun Movie - But Is 'To Rome With Love' Any Good?

June 15, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Director Woody Allen makes a rare trip to Los Angeles for the North American premiere of "To Rome With Love," and warns the audience that the fun he had making it might not translate

  

Cannes 2012: Sony Pictures Classics Buys Gael Garcia Bernal Chilean Drama ‘No’

May 22, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Sony Pictures Classics acquired North American rights to “No,” a drama about Chilean dictator Pinochet starring Gael Garcia Bernal

  

Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Rights to Susanne Bier’s 'Love Is All You Need'

May 16, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

The Italian set drama stars Pierce Brosnan 

  

Sony Pictures Classics Moves from Arthouse to Grindhouse With 'The Raid'

March 21, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

"The Raid: Redemption," an Indonesian martial arts flick, is business as usual, insists Sony Pictures Classics, a company known for artier fare

  

Sony Pictures Classics to Buy Sundance Hit 'Smashed' (Exclusive)

February 5, 2012 By Joshua L. Weinstein 1 year ago

Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars in "Smashed," which Sony Pictures Classics is on the verge of acquiring out of Sundance (Exclusive)

  

Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Rights to Jacques Audiard's 'Rust and Bone'

February 1, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

The film from the "A Prophet" director stars Marion Cotillard

  

Sony Classics Picks Up 'Neil Young Journeys'

October 11, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 1 year ago

The company has acquired rights to Jonathan Demme's movie, "Neil Young Journeys"

  

Sony Classics Picks Up Toronto Winner 'Where Do We Go Now?'

September 28, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Film was previously chosen as Lebanon's entry into Academy's Foreign-Language race

  

TIFF, Day 4: Memories, Deceit and Breasts

September 12, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Which movie mogul went to high school with Stevie Ray Vaughan? Sunday's fest provided the answer

  

How Corey Stoll Manned Up for Hemingway in 'Midnight in Paris'

August 26, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

"His voice was actually kind of high and reedy, with a little bit of a lisp -- it doesn't fit at all with what we see in the film"

  

'Midnight in Paris' Getting Another Box-Office Push in Late August

August 17, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Sony Classics is re-expanding distribution for Allen's top-grossing film as it nears the $50 million mark

  

Sony Classics Scoops Up Lawrence Kasdan's 'Darling Companion'

July 27, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 1 year ago

Movie stars Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton and Dianne Wiest

  

For Woody Allen, 'Midnight in Paris' Is No. 1 (Updated)

July 14, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

At some point on Friday, Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" will officially become the veteran director's top-grossing film ever

  

Sony Classics to Theaters: Help Woody's 'Midnight' Break the Record, or Else!

July 8, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

The studio has been unusually aggressive, threatening to take exhibitors off service if they don't help "Midnight" become Allen's most profitable film ever

  

'Midnight in Paris' -- Will It Be Woody Allen's Biggest Hit Ever?

June 24, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

This week the comedy became the director's top grosser in a quarter century; one more giant hurdle awaits

  

Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Cronenberg's 'A Dangerous Method'

June 16, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

The Carl Jung biopic stars Viggo Mortenson, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender

  

Cannes: Sony Classics Buys Israeli Drama 'Footnote'

May 13, 2011 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

SPC's first purchase at Cannes is Joseph Cedar drama about father-son rivalry

  

Sponsors Rule At Morgan Spurlock's Premiere

April 21, 2011 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Dcumentarian launches "POM Wonderful Presents the Greatest Movie Ever Sold" by touting his array of sponsors at premiere and party

  

Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Rights to Roman Polanski's 'Carnage'

April 14, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Studio will release film in North America by the end of the year

  

Sony Picks Up Rapaport's Tribe Called Quest Doc 'Beats, Rhymes & Life'

March 10, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Actor's directorial debut about legendary rap group screened at Sundance

  
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