The Sony Pictures Thread | Happy 100th anniversary to Columbia Pictures!

[Psylocke]

Besides gaming they are also doing better in the Anime section with Funimation for example.

[Eric Atreides]

 

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[dudalb]

Nice that the studio is doing well for SONY but let's face it, electronic hardware was always their core industry.

[Eric Atreides]

https://deadline.com/2022/12/box-office-2022-marketshare-disney-universal-marvel-1235208981/

 

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2022 domestic box office $843.8M, -20% from 2021 (11% marketshare); around $850.8M with Sony Pictures Classics: Four No. 1 openings in Uncharted ($44M), Bullet Train ($30M), The Woman King ($19M) and The Invitation ($6.8M).

 

What they did: The studio had great carryover business at the onset of 2022 with $231.8M of Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s lifetime U.S./Canada gross of $814.1M. Then came a smart release strategy by following up with Spidey star Tom Holland’s next movie, Uncharted, based on the PlayStation game ($148.6M). Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train slept its way to $103M-plus, and 3000 Pictures had adult appeal with Where the Crawdads Sing ($90M) and fall awards-season bait The Woman King ($67.1M). Sony makes extra bread in service deals on such pics like Black Label’s Devotion and I Wanna Dance with Somebody. Sony spread its risk around with co-financiers, so it can shoot for the moon. As the only major motion picture studio without a streaming service (sources believe Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairperson Tony Vinciquerra gets credit for not wasting money on building one out and splitting away dollars on content to compete with rivals), it remains a content arms dealer with third parties.

 

What they need to do: Make sure the rest of its own Marvel Venom-verse works with pics like Kraven the Hunter on October 6, get another Jumanji sequel underway and continue to roll the dice on intriguing, original adult fare like The Woman King. Outside of Spider-verse, get Sony Animation back on track after the Hotel Transylvania and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchises.

 

2023 outlook: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part 1 will definitely deliver on June 2, there’s hope for a new franchise in PlayStation game inspiration Gran Turismo from Neill Blomkamp (August 11). Can the Ghostbusters sequel keep its December 20 date after a changeup in directors? Lots of original adult fare in Adam Driver’s sci-fi title 65 (March 17), the George Foreman biopic (April 28) and Priyanka Chopra-Celine Dion romantic comedy Love Again (May 12).

[Macleod]

On 5/10/2022 at 6:05 PM, dudalb said:

Nice that the studio is doing well for SONY but let's face it, electronic hardware was always their core industry.

Tom Rothman to you: "And...? -- I have Spider-Man." 

 

Edited December 31, 2022 by Macleod

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[Napoleon]

On 4/25/2023 at 12:37 AM, kayumanggi said:

 

What about Millie Bobby Brown and Jenna Ortega?

[dudalb]

11 hours ago, Napoleon said:

What about Millie Bobby Brown and Jenna Ortega?

ROthman is like a couple of studio heads in the early 1950's who  treid to pretend that Television was no big thing and would soon go away. and it could not make big stars. Those studios heads..inclusing Louis B Mayer at MGM...soon lost their jobsm and Lucille Ba;; and I love Lucy shoed that TV could create huge stars. ROthman should remember that history.

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

On 4/28/2023 at 4:10 AM, Napoleon said:

What about Millie Bobby Brown and Jenna Ortega?

 

Rothman would be like Dave here:

 

 

[Spidey Freak]

On 4/28/2023 at 2:40 PM, Napoleon said:

What about Millie Bobby Brown and Jenna Ortega?

 

I'm afraid Hollywood is gonna Sarah Michelle Gellarize their careers by not knowing what to do with them, not caring what to do with them, and the general elitism of looking down at 'small screen' pop culture idols

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[dudalb]

Apparently SONY will greenlight Villaneuva's Cleopatra film.

Not without some trepidation, what happened with the 1963 film has become part of Hollywood's DNA. The making of Cleo 63,  although it ended up making a modest profit after ten years....is the ultimate out of control film nightmare story. Everything that could go wrong making a film did with the Liz and Dcik Cleo.

[Jonwo]

12 minutes ago, dudalb said:

Apparently SONY will greenlight Villaneuva's Cleopatra film.

Not without some trepidation, what happened with the 1963 film has become part of Hollywood's DNA. The making of Cleo 63,  although it ended up making a modest profit after ten years....is the ultimate out of control film nightmare story. Everything that could go wrong making a film did with the Liz and Dcik Cleo.

Cleopatra is the case of what could go wrong, did go wrong. I'm not sure what $40m is in today's money but in 1963 but it was a lot. 

 

I find it strange that we refer to Columbia Pictures as Sony, we don't call Universal Comcast for example. 

 

 

 

[Barnack]

10 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

I find it strange that we refer to Columbia Pictures as Sony,

Their website is called sonypictures

https://www.sonypictures.com/movies

vs

https://www.universalpictures.com/movies

 

On that big of a movie, Sony Picture /Rothman will be involved

[dudalb]

8 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

Cleopatra is the case of what could go wrong, did go wrong. I'm not sure what $40m is in today's money but in 1963 but it was a lot. 

 

I find it strange that we refer to Columbia Pictures as Sony, we don't call Universal Comcast for example. 

 

 

 

Add a zero to that 40 Million and you have what Cleopatra cost in today's dollars.

Cleo 63 did something no other film ever did:It brought a studio to the brink of bankruptcy while it was still being made. It was sucking so much money up that Fox had to shut down almost the entire studio..no other movies  being made..for nearly a year. Only thing shooting on the Hollywood Fox Lots were the TV shows FOx was under contractual obligation to make.(Cleopatra was shot entirely in Rome).

And here is badly managed the film was. Liz Taylor made headlines in 1960 when she became the first star to get 1 million dollars up front for a single movie. becuase her contract had a generous overtime clause in it, she ended up making nearly 4 million  for the film. And she did not have a share of the gross. She made 3 millkion in overtime.

[Eric Atreides]