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Sony's Men in Black 3 posts an impressive $70 million opening weekend, as the film is the first of a trio upon which the studio has spent as much as $1 billion to develop.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' reprisal of their roles as world-saving secret agents in "Men in Black 3" collected $70 million at the North American box office in its initial weekend, putting Sony Pictures in a strong position leading into a summer of expensive bets for the studio.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' reprisal of their roles as world-saving secret agents in "Men in Black 3" collected $70 million at the North American box office in its initial weekend, putting Sony Pictures in a strong position leading into a summer of expensive bets for the studio.

This is how high the summer movie stakes have become: "Men in Black 3," representing the return of Will Smith after a four-year hiatus, took in about $55 million over its first three days in North American theaters - and Hollywood collectively winced.

Two men - in black - finally took down the box office smash that is "The Avengers," as "Men in Black 3" rose to the top of the box office charts for the weekend of May 25-27, 2012.

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Culver City's Sony Corp. has hired Academy Award winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin to adapt Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs for the big screen.

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NEW YORK -- Sony Corporation hit a new 52-week low Friday as it is currently trading at $13.30, below its previous 52-week low of $13.54 with 153,156 shares traded as of 9:35 a.m. ET.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has backed down from its refusal to pay for the 3-D glasses on this weekend's science fiction sequel "Men in Black 3." But the studio still doesn't see eye to eye with exhibitors on the issue.

Sony will become part of Apple's supply team for the next-generation iPhone, providing in-cell touch panels for the much-awaited smartphone, according to Digitimes .

Men In Black 3 opens Friday and it'll be on plenty of 3D screens despite disagreement between exhibitors and Sony Pictures Entertainment over who should pay for 3D glasses.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Rentrak Corporation today announced the top ten movies-on-demand titles based on consumer transaction rate.

Sony Pictures is in a showdown with theater operators over who will foot the bill for 3-D glasses less than one week before the studio's big Men in Black 3 premiere.

Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday said that the Academy Award winning screenwriter behind The Social Network will write the script for a film about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

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A certain indie film starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs has been the recipient of a ton of press lately, but that little film is being put together by an ragtag crew with no experience, based off a screenplay from an unkown writer.

Sony reportedly paid $1 million for the rights to the biography, picking it up in October.

Sony Corporation's stock fell to a 31-year low in response to the company's record annual loss of 456.7 billion yen, or $5.7 billion, reported on Thursday.

Posting a record loss of $5.7B for the fiscal year ended March 31, Sony today reported a quarterly loss of $3.2B. However, the company also expects a return to profit, predicting that net income for the fiscal year to end March 2013 could be about $376M. Still, that figure lags behind what a group of Bloomberg analysts had estimated.