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Sony Pictures Classics announced on Friday that it will release the Saoirse Ronan drama The Outrun theatrically in North America in partnership with Stage 6 Films, opening it in theaters nationwide on October 4. The project reunites Sony Pictures Classics with Ronan, who previously starred in its…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Moon, the new film from Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater (Hit Man), on which we were first to report, and which will be his next effort after all, with production commencing in Dublin, Ireland this summer. Ethan Hawke is…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Bernard MacMahon’s hybrid docu-concert film Becoming Led Zeppelin, taking all rights in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia (excluding Japan), and Benelux. Powered by never-before-seen footage, performances and music, the film is billed as…

EXCLUSIVE: In a sleepy summer, here’s a movie to wake it up: The 25th anniversary re-release of Tom Tykwer’s German action movie Run Lola Run from Sony Pictures Classics. If you forgot how kinetic, intriguing and wild this movie was, the new trailer will bring you back. Even better, it’s in 4K starting…

Sony Pictures Classics announced on Wednesday that it will release Nathan Silver’s acclaimed comedy Between the Temples, starring Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City) and Carol Kane (The Dead Don’t Die), in theaters nationwide on August 23. The film will open against Zoë Kravitz’s debut feature Blink T…

Sony Pictures Classics is reissuing the 1999 German cult thriller Run Lola Run for its 25th anniversary on June 7. The re-release will feature a new DCP from the 4K restoration, created in collaboration with the filmmakers. Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Run Lola Run starred Franka…

On the heels of its premiere to critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film Kneecap on the Irish rap trio of the same name has been slated for release by Sony Pictures Classics in theaters nationwide on August 2, when it will open against Columbia Pictures’ family film Harold and the P…

Sony Pictures Classics' Wicked Little Letters grossed an estimated $1.5+ million in a big second week expansion for the R-rated British period comedy to 1,000 screens from five. The Thea Sharrock-directed film starring Olivia Colman (also a producer) and Jessie Buckley, no. 8 at the domestic weekend box…

Director Nicholas Hytner and writer Alan Bennett are collaborating again, with The Lady in the Van, The History Boys and The Madness of King George duo set to team on The Choral, which will star Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale. Production begins in May in Yorkshire, according to Sony…

Sony Pictures Classics announced on Tuesday that it will release its indie drama Daddio, starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, in theaters nationwide on June 28. Marking the feature directorial debut of Christy Hall, who also penned the script, Daddio world premiered at last year’s Telluride Film…

The 26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TiDF) is underway in the historic Greek port city, after an opening night ceremony that honored Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba. Trueba, the Oscar-winning director of Belle Époque, received the festival's honorary Golden Alexander…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Pedro Almodóvar's English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro. The Spanish master's frequent collaborators at SPC have taken North America, the Middle East, India, South Africa, Australia and New…