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Sony Pictures Bearing Down On Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden Movie

I'm told that Sony Pictures is negotiating to acquire U.S. distribution rights to the untitled Kathryn Bigelow-directed drama about Navy SEAL Team 6's hunt for Osama bin Laden. Mark Boal, Bigelow's partner on the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, is finalizing a script that changes the film from a drama about an unsuccessful attempt to hunt the Al Qaeda leader into a methodical hunt that culminates in his death. The film is being fully financed by Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures. Production will start in the early fall and the pic will be ready for release in 2012.

Sony Pictures chairman calls for healthy snacks at US cinemas

Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures would like to see cinemas, across the U.S., selling healthier snacks in order to help the American public "meet an urgent health need."