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Jordan Fudge, Jeremy Allen and Zach White’s media fund New Slate Ventures has optioned the rights to Den of Thieves from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street, The Sopranos) is set to adapt the non-fiction book into a limited…

Quibi has ordered The Rachel Hollis Show, a daily morning talk show hosted by Hollis, motivational speaker and New York Times best-selling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, as part of the upcoming short-form video site's Daily Essentials programming slate. The series hails from The Hollis…

EXCLUSIVE: Wheelhouse Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in Den of Thieves, the production company behind Netflix's Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour special. Brent Montgomery's firm has invested in the live-event, scripted and non-scripted company, which was established by Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan…

The storied Peabody Awards and cable network FX have partnered on a TV special airing this summer where winning writers and producers will explore key social issues from race to rape culture to multicultural representation in media. Peabody executive director Jeffrey Jones announced the documentary-style show, called S…

Sierra/Affinity is handling foreign on Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, the upcoming film from eOne, Tucker Tooley’s Tooley Entertainment, Atmosphere Entertainment and G-Base. Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr are reprising their roles as Big Nick O’Brien and Donnie Wilson. In the sequel, being written and directed by…

EXCLUSIVE: Feature film marketing data analytics firm Movio and STX Entertainment are officially partnering after the two worked together on Den of Thieves which used target marketing techniques to optimize the campaign. Den of Thieves, which starred Gerard Butler, cost around $30M and its $25M P&A spend was target…

3rd update, Sunday writethru: Jumanji remained king of the box office jungle despite the entry of three new titles, two of which were action films geared towards an older male audience — 12 Strong and Den of Thieves, both of which are estimated to take in mid-teens this weekend. January has begun to ratchet down after…

Gerard Butler is one tough cop in STXfilms’ recently released action-heavy trailer to its upcoming crime thriller, Den Of Thieves, which, from the video, raises the question of who’s more dangerous, the cops or the criminals? From first-time director Christian Gudegast,  who wrote the screenplay based on a story he…

Den of Thieves, the action thriller that stars Gerard Butler and an ensemble cast that includes Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson, has been pegged for release on January 19, 2018 by distributor STX. This year, on the same date of Jan. 20th, Split earned a whopping $40M in its opening weekend while xXx: The Return of Xander Cage…

Oscar Jaenada has boarded Terry Gilliam’s long-delayed pic The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, joining Adam Driver and Olga Kurylenko. It’s about an advertising exec who returns to his Spanish village, where as a student he made a film based on Don Quixote, only to get entangled in a series of catastrophes. Gilliam…

EXCLUSIVE: House Of Lies star Dawn Olivieri and Mo McRae (Fox’s Pitch) have snatched up roles in Diamond Film Production’s Den of Thieves, the crime thriller for STX that stars Gerard Butler. Christian Gudegast is at the helm for this film, which he co-wrote with Paul Sheuring. Based on true events, Den of Thieves  is…

EXCLUSIVE: Pablo Schreiber and O’Shea Jackson Jr. have joined Gerard Butler and Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson in the crime thriller Den Of Thieves from Diamond Film Productions. Scheduled to begin shooting next month in Atlanta, the film is directed by Christian Gudegast from a script he co-wrote with Paul Sheuring. STX…