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The Justice Department has charged a computer programmer working on behalf of the North Korean government with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, along with the massive WannaCry ransomware attack last year and an $81 million theft from a bank in Bangladesh.

Sony Pictures Classics released a statement shredding actor Peter Fonda for his tweets, one of which called for 12-year-old Barron Trump to be raped — but the company said it would still release Boundaries, a new film co-starring Fonda.

Gay advocacy group GLAAD slapped Hollywood with a failing grade on its annual report card for the lack of roles for gays and a dearth of gay storylines in films for 2017.

The Four judge Charlie Walk is being investigated by the Fox broadcast network over allegations of harassment and groping.

Sony Entertainment has canceled the American Film Institute premiere of the film ‘All the Money’ featuring the embattled actor Kevin Spacey,

Sony showed up to E3 with all of the expected fanfare and a meaty serving of footage from a rich library of upcoming exclusives.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are pointing to circumstantial evidence that North Korea may be behind the global “ransomware” attack: the way the hackers took hostage computers and servers across the world was similar to previous cyberattacks attributed to North Korea.

Amy Schumer has reportedly exited Sony’s live-action Barbie film due to scheduling conflicts.

Fallout 4 and Skyrim developer Bethesda has publicly called out Sony for the lack of mod support on PS4.

Sony has been paying special attention to the global success of Pokemon Go, and now they want in on that action.

Warner Bros./DC’s Suicide Squad took a deep nosedive in its second weekend of release while Seth Rogen and Sony’s raunchy Sausage Party became the highest-grossing animated release ever for August and Disney’s reboot of Pete’s Dragon stumbled out of the gate at the box office this weekend.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Pamela McClintock writes that despite their calm and even joyful reaction to the Ghostbusters remake’s box office results, Sony will probably end up taking a massive financial hit on the movie.

Sony/Village Roadshow’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot failed to scare up enough business to be considered a hit in its opening frame, while Universal/Illumination’s latest animated offering The Secret Life of Pets looked to be on track for a $50M+ weekend to retain the top spot and Bryan Cranston’s undercover caper The Infiltrator fell flat at the box office this weekend.

The PlayStation VR is coming out this October, and the speculated PS4 “Neo” are at the top of Sony’s E3 playlist this year.

A number of top television networks and production studios have joined the growing list of companies who have vowed an economic boycott of the state of Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto a religious freedom bill that passed the state Legislature last week.

Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House has confirmed a release date and price point for the PlayStation VR.

Pop star Demi Lovato ripped fellow artist Taylor Swift on Sunday after Swift donated $250,000 to help cover legal fees for rapper Kesha, who lost a bid last week to be released from her Sony contract under her producer and alleged rapist Dr. Luke.

During a third quarter earnings report call, Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen may have revealed sales numbers that Microsoft has being doing its best to hide.

Sony has decided to give PlayStation its own business, starting April 1st. The newly-dubbed Sony Interactive Entertainment will be led by Andrew House, former CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment.

Hideo Kojima has joined forces with Sony in the wake of a messy break-up with his former publisher Konami.

Indie developer Twisted is getting a lot of attention in the wake of it’s Monday announcement. They’re bringing PS4 Remote Play to the PC, courtesy of their brand new app.

Welcome to the Sony Press Conference for Paris Games Week. Through the textomancy of Nate Church, and the mysterious magicks of the internet, you’re about to become a virtual attendee. YouTube, eat your heart out.

In an interview with Business Insider, Jeremy Renner (who, along with Cooper, reportedly earned more money than Lawrence on Hustle) said it was not an actor’s duty to participate in salary negotiations.

While Sony and Microsoft debuted their PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles in China within the past year, only 9 million out of China’s 515 million gamers use a console. Due to content censorship, prices, and pirating, Sony and Microsoft are expected to sell less than 550,000 consoles, combined, this year, with online PC and mobile games expected to haul in $16.8 and 4 billion, respectively.

PBS ombudsman Michael Getler said that his public TV station did a “good job” with its internal review of the circumstances surrounding censorship of actor Ben Affleck’s episode of genealogy series Finding Your Roots, but said the show’s producers made a “deadly” error when choosing to omit sensitive information from the episode.

The times are a-changin’, even in the fictional world of superheroes.

New documents released by Wikileaks Thursday demonstrate an attempt by Sony to prevent the spread of herpes on film sets, according to Radar Online.

In an announcement Tuesday, Sony claims that starting next month, through its Playstation Vue streaming service, the company will offer a la carte subscriptions to whatever individual channels customers choose to pay for. For now, this service is only available

Sony held its E3 conference on Monday, June 15, unveiling crowd-favorite titles both new and old.

Game developers are gearing up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) occurring Tuesday, June 16 – Thursday, June 18. Only game creators and press are invited, but PlayStation and Xbox plan to allow gamers to experience the event via movie theater screening and Xbox Daily: LIVE @ E3, respectively.

The upcoming star-studded Sony Pictures film Aloha is under fire from an advocacy group that claims the film’s producers “used mostly white” actors in the Hawaiian-set production and failed to adequately depict the diversity of the island’s residents.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter allegedly will not enter the United States due to an FBI investigation over rewarding the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley returned to Hollywood this week to meet with well-connected, deep-pocketed donors as he decides whether to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential race.

Ben Affleck took to Facebook on Tuesday to address the controversy surrounding censorship of his segment on the PBS television show Finding Your Roots.

Ben Affleck asked the producers of PBS’ Finding Your Roots television show to edit out details of an ancestor who owned slaves, according to a Sony internal email exchange leaked this week. In an email sent to Sony CEO Michael Lynton

Former Sony co-chair Amy Pascal will have to wait a little while longer to move into her posh new production office; according to sources at the company, the office’s previous occupants, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, smoked so much weed in there that the smell has become pervasive, and Pascal reportedly wants it cleaned up before she moves in.