Culver City-based Sony Pictures announced Wednesday that it will re-release the 2001 Muhammad Ali biopic “Ali” to several hundreds of theaters following the legendary boxer’s death on June 3.

“The film truly honors everything that made Ali one of the central figures of our time, a man who commanded his sport but whose personal faith and principles made him mean so much more,” Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, said in a statement.

The Michael Mann-directed film, starring Will Smith, has grossed $87 million at the worldwide box office and received two Oscar nominations for best actor and for best supporting actor.

Earlier this year, AMC Theatres teamed up with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. for a limited re-release of late-singer Prince’s 1984 Oscar-winning film “Purple Rain,” following his death in April.