It’s another busy development season for Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly’s Sony-based TV production company, which has set up eight projects from such auspices as Elmore Leonard, Graham Yost, Michael Dinner, Barry Sonnenfeld and Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman.

What is different this year is that most of the projects are set up at cable networks.

Since […]

TOKYO - Sony plans to digitally film and distribute sports and other live events to theaters in Japan, the company announced on Friday.

Sony will launch the new service, called Livespire, on Saturday with the musical “Riding the Metro” (Metro ni Notte) at three theaters in the 109 Cinemas chain operated by Tokyu Recreation. This run […]

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Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting Inc. has given conditional approval to Sony XDCAM HD for high definition acquisition. XDCAM HD was approved by the Discovery Channel over half a year ago, also with the condition that it be shot at 35 Mbps.

The project is an independent feature length film from Little Engine Moving Pictures, called "THE LIMITS." The format is Sony XDCAM HD.

After months of planning and discussion, Image Pacific Broadcast Rentals (IPBR) and Image Central Broadcast Rentals (ICBR) announced that their much anticipated 4 Camera High Definition Airpack will be ready to fly July, 2007.

Sony Electronics today unveiled two new front home theater projectors that bring the movie-going experience home at prices beginning at about $1,000. The new BRAVIA 3LCD VPL-AW15 and VPL-AW10 projectors feature 1280 × 720 progressive resolution, which is ideal for large screen home entertainment applications like enjoying HD movies, gaming and sports.

Sony Pictures today announced the company will donate 2.5% (approximately $650,000) of the opening weekend box office receipts of STOMP THE YARD to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation. STOMP THE YARD will be #1 at the box office for the 4-day weekend, bringing in an estimated $26 million.

Not even a dragon or the world’s most-beloved spider could deny Will Smith another first-place finish at the box office. Sony’s father-son drama "The Pursuit of Happyness," starring Smith and his own son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, debuted as the No. 1 movie with US$27 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

For the first time in its history, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) will exceed more than $3 billion in worldwide ticket sales tomorrow, December 8th. It was announced by Jeff Blake, chairman, worldwide marketing and distribution for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group and vice chairman of SPE.