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Innovation and creativity collide this holiday season, as Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) revealed new details for PlayStation 5, including the next-generation console’s design and a deep lineup of brand new games coming to the platform. In a livestream event today reaching millions of gaming fans, SIE showed the PS5 hardware for …

Bad Boys for Life easily won Super Bowl weekend at the U.S. box office, earning another $17.7 million for a franchise-best domestic total of $148.1 million. The pic — which has stayed atop the chart for three consecutive weekends — is a major win for stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, …

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s Bad Boys for Life — opening 17 years after the last installment in their franchise hit the big screen — zoomed to an estimated $68.1 million over the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, including $59.2 million for the three days. The film’s release marks the second-best …

Sony’s year-end event pic Jumanji: The Next Level is off to a merry start at the pre-holiday box office, opening ahead of expectations with an estimated $60.1 million. The Dwayne Johnson-Kevin Hart sequel had no trouble topping the North American chart, despite a crowded marquee that included new offerings Richard Jewell, from director …

Sony Interactive Entertainment (“SIE”) announced that SIE has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Insomniac Games, Inc. (“Insomniac Games”), a leading game developer and long-time partner of SIE, in its entirety. Insomniac Games is the developer of PlayStation 4’s (PS4) top-selling Marvel’s Spider-Man and the hugely popular PlayStation Ratchet & Clank franchise.  Upon completion …

Sony and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Far From Home dominated in its second weekend as it reached $847.1 million globally. In North America, the pic took in $45.3 million from 4,634 theaters for a $274.6 million cume. Not even the web-slinging hero could prevent another down weekend for mainstream fare. Newcomers Crawl and Stuber wilted in their …

In a win for Sony and Kevin Feige’s Marvel Studios, Spider-Man: Far From Home scored a sensational six-day launch of $185.1 million from 4,634 North American theaters, including a near-record $93.6 million over Fourth of July weekend. Globally, it now has amassed $580.1 million. Far From Home topped Spider-Man 2 to boast the biggest six-day …

Men In Black International trudged to the top of a weak box office, earning only $28.5 million in its opening weekend. Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth star in the new pic as Agent H and Agent M, respectively, who spearhead the London bureau of the agency that is charged with protecting …

To coincide with the 35th anniversary of Ghostbusters, first released in U.S. theaters on June 8, 1984, Sony Pictures is launching “Ghostbusters 35th,” a year-long celebration of the iconic multi-media franchise, it was announced today by Jeffrey Godsick, EVP of Brand Strategy and Global Partnerships for Sony Pictures. The event represents a collaboration between …

In another win for Sony’s stable of Marvel films,Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse swung to $35.4 million in its domestic debut — the best December opening ever for an animated film — laying the course for a strong run over the year-end holidays. The critically acclaimed film, produced by Philip Lord and Christopher …