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Sony Pictures has set new firing appointment for several approaching movies . The studio has been suffering financially , having lately postedan $ 86 million loss for the year ’s first one-quarter , since they did n’t have any box seat position hits impart over from last class nor did they release any majorly successful movies at the jump of this twelvemonth . The recent news come off the heels of Sony Pictures account a$719 million personnel casualty for their total movie division in 2016 . To make matter worse , they had already taken a$1 billion write - down of their film divisionback in January .
Jon Watts’Spider - human being : Homecomingis nearing the $ 700 million mark globally and Edgar Wright’sBaby Driverhas already pulled in over $ 156 million at the worldwide box office against an calculate production budget of $ 34 million . However , many of their other picture , such as Nikolaj Arcel’sThe Dark Towerand Tony Leondis’The Emoji Movie , have struggled to detect their basis . Although they have struggled recently , that does n’t mean they ’re down for the reckoning . In fact , they ’re now set release dates for their coming slate .
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Sony Pictures has scheduled Ethan Coen’sHolmes & Watsonmovie , star Will Ferrell as Sherlock Holmes and John C. Reilly as John Watson for August 3 , 2018 . The live - actionBarbiemovie , whichAnne Hathaway has been circling to replace Amy Schumer , has been moved from its June 2018 going appointment back to August 8 , 2018 ( interestingly making its waiver 8/8/18 ) . The upcomingSicariosequel , Soldado , organise by Italian filmmaker Stefano Sollima , and featuring the takings of Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin , has taken Barbie ’s original button date of June 29 , 2018 . The cinema ’s screenwriter , Taylor Sheridan , had recently said that the handwriting he wrote forSoldadomakesSicario"look like a comedy . "
The news comes off the heel of Sony Pictures programing Gina Prince - Bythewood ’s ( The Secret Life of Bees ) upcoming mirthful book movieSilver & Blackfor February 2019 , as part of their burgeoning Spidey spinoff universe of discourse ( unrelated to the MCU ) . Furthermore , Sony has pulled the thirdBad Boysinstallment , Bad Boys For Life , from their 2018 release schedule and have left the plastic film without a release date .
It ’s worth note that the aforementioned picture show are n’t the only ones on the studio ’s release schedule for 2018 ; they were just the ones that happened to get new spill dates today . Sony Pictures also has Ruben Fleischer’sVenom , starring Tom Hardy as the eponymous character , releasing next class , along with the plan animatedSpider - Manmovie , boast voice work from Shameik Moore , Mahershala Ali , and Liev Schreiber , as well asGoosebumps 2 , among others .
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