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Film News: A pair of ’80s reboots enter the fray — A pair of ’80s reboots — Sony’s “Karate Kid” at 3,663 locations and 20th Century Fox’s “The A-Team” at 3,534 — enter the fray this weekend poised to deliver a swift kick in the domestic B.O.

Film News: Studio veteran named president of company — Sony’s Peter Schlessel is exiting from his post as president of worldwide affairs to head up GK Films.

Film News: Studio veteran named president of company — Sony’s Peter Schlessel is exiting from his post as president of worldwide affairs to head up GK Films.

Film News: TV, film and PlayStation projects touted — Sony rolled out its biggest corporate guns Wednesday on the old Columbia lot to tubthump its top-to-bottom commitment to stereoscopic 3D.

Film News: VOD service can be accessed via various sites — Crackle, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s video-on-demand service, has bowed in the U.K. and Oz.

Film News: VOD service joins piracy fight — Paramount, Sony Pictures Television, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. have teamed up with U.K. video-on-demand service Blinkbox to offer free movies — for one week only.

Film News: Studio nabs rights to drama about French monks — Sony Pictures Classics nabbed all rights in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand to Cannes competition screener “Of Gods and Men” from sales agent Wild Bunch.

Film News: Studio picks up rights to Susanne Bier drama — Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights to Susanne Bier’s “In a Better World.”

Film News: Mubi will roll out in Europe this fall — Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has inked with online film library site the Auteurs — rebranded as Mubi — to incorporate its services onto the PlayStation 3 game console.

Film News: Focus keeps some territories on Wright thriller — Moving aggressively, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisition Group has acquired all available foreign territory rights to Focus Features’ adventure thriller “Hanna,” from director Joe Wright.