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Universal Pictures has slated their 87North holiday thriller Violent Night for Dec. 2, 2022. Early December in the post Thanksgiving sleepy frame is typically a good time for studios to grab at genre audiences, i.e. Screen Gems’ 2018 The Possession of Hannah Grace and Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Christmas.  Violent Nig…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in negotiations to pick up the screenplay Ruby, a female assassin action feature by Kat Wood which I hear is going for around six figures. 87North is coming aboard to produce Ruby with the label’s Kelly McCormick, Annie Marter and David Leitch producing.  The story, I hear, is in the spirit of the…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve learned that STX is developing Fast and Loose with 87North, the production label of Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch and EP Kelly McCormick. The project, written by Jon and Erich Hoeber (Meg, Red, Red 2), follows a man who wakes up in Tijuana after being left for dead with absolutely no memory. As…