STX Allows Hong Kong IPO To Officially Lapse; Weighs Financial Opportunities...
As Deadline exclusively reported back on October 5, STX Entertainment has allowed its application on the Hong Kong Stock exchange to lapse. Originally the motion picture television entertainment studio...
View ArticleTracey Edmonds Inks First-Look Production & Development Deal With STXalternative
EXCLUSIVE: STXalternative, a division of Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment, has signed a first-look development and production deal with Tracey Edmonds and her Edmonds Entertainment, to co-produce and...
View ArticleNetflix Hires STX Production Exec Sheroum Kim As Director Of Independent Films
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix continues to bolster its film and TV ranks with the hire of STX Entertainment production executive Sheroum Kim as Director Of Independent Films. The Los Angeles-based Kim, who joins...
View ArticleDiane Keaton Comedy ‘Poms’ To Spur Cheers Over Mother’s Day Weekend
STXfilms will open their AFM acquisition Poms on May 10, Mother’s Day weekend. The Diane Keaton movie opens close to a year after her previous hit spring comedy Book Club which earned $90M WW. When it...
View ArticleSTX Punches For Guy Ritchie Crime-Comedy ‘Bush’ In Splashy $7M EFM Deal
EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest deals to emerge from the 2019 EFM, STX has finalized a deal for U.S. rights to Guy Ritchie’s Miramax pic Bush — formerly known as Toff Guys — for around $7M. Multiple...
View ArticleTPG Puts Bill McGlashan On Leave Amid College Bribery Scandal
Bill McGlashan, the founder and managing partner of TPG Growth which is majority owner of CAA and helped launch STX Entertainment among other Hollywood entities, has been put on administrative leave by...
View ArticleSTX Ups Amy Elkins To President of Media & Marketing Innovation
STX Entertainment has promoted Amy Elkins to President of Media & Marketing Innovation. She is the studio’s first digital-media head and will oversee marketing innovation across STX’s business...
View ArticleSTX Chief Brand Officer Patricia Rockenwagner Exiting The Company
Patricia Röckenwagner, who was promoted a year ago to Chief Brand Officer of STX Entertainment, is leaving the company. Last March, the company upped Röckenwagner from Chief Communications Officer to a...
View ArticleAndy Leyshon To Exit As STX’s UK Managing Director; Pair Upped In...
STX Entertainment said Wednesday that UK managing director Andy Leyshon is exiting the company, part of a reshuffle that will see Llewellyn Radley promoted to Managing Director, UK & EVP...
View ArticleSTX COO Tom McGrath Exits, Will Remain Senior Adviser At Studio
Deadline has confirmed that STX Entertainment chief operating officer Thomas McGrath is stepping down. He will remain a senior adviser at the company. McGrath, who has been at Bob Simonds’ mini-major...
View ArticleSeveral Major Media Companies Signal Concerns About Georgia Abortion Law –...
UPDATED with addditional statements: A day after Disney CEO Bob Iger said it would be “difficult” for the media giant to produce TV shows and films in Georgia given its strict new abortion law, a...
View ArticleCan ‘Hustlers’ Really Deliver Record $26M Live-Action Opening For Jennifer...
While everyone is expecting New Line’s It: Chapter 2 to tee us off into what is expected to be a lucrative fall-holiday season with at least a $90 million-$110 million start, one shocker that hit...
View ArticleSTX’s ‘Hustlers’ A “Wink” To Jennifer Lopez, Writer-Director Lorene Scafaria...
At today’s The Contenders L.A. panel on STX Entertainment’s Hustlers, writer director Lorene Scafaria said Jennifer Lopez was the first choice to portray stripper Ramona in the film, based on a 2015...
View ArticleMiramax Hires Yvette Zhuang As SVP International Production And Distribution
Veteran distribution executive Yvette Zhuang has been hired by Miramax as its SVP International Production and Distribution. Zhuang was most recently SVP of International Sales at STX Entertainment,...
View Article‘The Upside’ Review: Kevin Hart & Bryan Cranston Make 2019’s First Buddy Film...
I first saw The Upside at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. At the party afterwards, Harvey Weinstein, who was the distributor, was lapping up the strong reaction and talking an Oscar/Globe qualifying...
View ArticleJodie Foster Says ‘The Mauritanian’ Reflects The Residual Effects Of...
Though she has starred in some of the most indelible movies in cinema history—Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused—and won two Oscars for doing so, Jodie Foster’s output has slowed in...
View ArticleProduction 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...
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