Production Designer Michael Carlin On The Incredible Ambition Of...
On Radioactive, production designer Michael Carlin created a sense of enormous scope with a relatively modest budget, recreating period environments from five countries, for a story spanning more than...
View ArticleTahar Rahim On The Muslim Stereotypes He Refuses To Play, And How ‘The...
Mohamedou Ould Salahi endured unimaginable horror as an inmate of the U.S. government’s notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center for more than 14 years. In all that time, no charge was ever leveled...
View ArticleDirector Kevin Macdonald On The Real-Life Inspiration For ‘The Mauritanian’:...
True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy...
View Article‘The Mauritanian’ Director & Cast On Creating An Authentic Portrait Of...
STX Entertainment’s The Mauritanian follows the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was unjustly jailed by the U.S. for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay for being a 9/11 plot suspect, and his attorney...
View ArticleRich Sullivan, Former Twitter, DreamWorks Animation Exec, Named CFO Of...
Rich Sullivan, who held top finance roles at Twitter, STX Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation, was named chief financial officer of saving and investing app Acorns as it preps for an IPO. The app –...
View ArticleSTX Entertainment In Sale Talks After Turbulent Merger With Eros
STX Entertainment, a subsidiary of the troubled, merged entity Eros STX, is in exclusive talks to be sold off to a third party. Eros STX confirmed the discussions today in a press release, declining to...
View ArticleLionsgate Execs Mostly Mum On Starz, STX Deals; Talk Series Vs Films On...
Lionsgate execs declined to offer any update on the status of Starz after announcing last fall that the company is exploring strategic options. Nor did STX Entertainment come up on its call Thursday to...
View ArticleSTX Trims Theatrical Distribution & Marketing In Pivot Toward More Hybrid &...
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that STX Entertainment has made cuts, notably in its theatrical distribution and marketing departments in the lower-level executive tiers and down. The news comes as STX is pivoting...
View ArticleSTX To Remain Independent Studio As Deal Closes With Najafi Companies & Eros...
EXCLUSIVE: There’s been a lot of biting rumors around STX Entertainment during the past four months, from a potential sale to Lionsgate to possibly filing Chapter 11. These are not coming to...
View ArticleSTX’s Adam Fogelson Heads To Lionsgate As New Motion Picture Group Vice Chair
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Fogelson has been appointed Vice Chair of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group and will begin September 1 as he segues from his role as STX Entertainment Motion Picture Group Chairman, a...
View ArticleSTX & Lionsgate In Talks For Strategic Partnership
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that STX and Lionsgate are down the road on a new strategic deal that will see the latter distributing and marketing the former’s upcoming theatrical releases. STX’s upcoming slate...
View ArticlePussy Riot Limited Series Based On Nadya Tolokonnikova’s Upcoming Memoir In...
EXCLUSIVE: We’ve learned that STX Entertainment has reached a deal with Nadya Tolokonnikova, the artist, activist, and creator of the legendary Russian feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot, to...
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