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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 identify the potential buyer. Its stock, which began trading on the New York Stock Exchange last year, has dropped…

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians and Hustlers star Constance Wu has inked with CAA, Deadline has learned. She rose to fame in the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat as Jessica Huang, a role which earned her a Critics Choice Television Award nominatio. She also was lauded as part of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People of…

Global streamer Starz has launched independent direct-to-consumer OTT app Lionsgate Play in India, which will make Hollywood content available locally in multiple Indian languages. The service enters a booming streaming market where the likes of Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon and Netflix have been making waves in 2020…

In the six previous years of our tournament to name the year’s most profitable film, Deadline has always launched the contest around the NCAA basketball tournament. But this year is drastically different. Tonight was supposed to be the national championship game, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, but of course the e…

Freeform and Hulu have acquired linear and digital rights to three hit films from STXfilms – Hustlers, The Upside and I Feel Pretty, all set to roll out beginning in 2020. This marks the latest collaboration between Hulu and a Disney cable network, following Hulu and FX’s deal with Lionsgate, and is another vivid…

It is no secret that the Hollywood Foreign Press was put under fire for shutting out women in the Best Director category at this year’s Golden Globes. In fact, the amount of women, people of color and underrepresented voices were fairly thin across all categories. Deadline talked to female filmmakers, producers and…

Reteaming with writer/director Lorene Scafaria on Hustlers, following their first collaboration on 2015 dramatic comedy The Meddler, editor Kayla Emter says she found the project to be "the editor's dream." "So much of what's special on the screen was in the script. I have a non-linear story structure; I get montages…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s in? Who’s out? After a week that is probably the most consequential yet this shortened awards season, those questions remain after Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice, SAG, ACE, ADG, CDG, LAFCC and who knows who else jumped…

Few could have imagined at the beginning of the year that a film about strippers spiking Wall Street wolves with a ketamine-and-molly KO combo would turn out to be anything other than a guilty pleasure, especially with Jennifer Lopez as a mink-clad pole dancer named Ramona. And yet Lorene Scafaria's Hustlers has been…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. “Thankful” reads the heading of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ latest email to members, the most recent in a series of messages being sent this month to urge members to see all the “great films, performances, and achievements of the…

A24’s Adam Sandler thriller Uncut Gems and Robert Eggers’ spooky black-and-white movie The Lighthouse led the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations Thursday morning with five noms apiece, followed by Amazon’s Honey Boy scripted by Shia LeBeouf and based on his rocky childhood. For a fourth straight year, A24 lead…

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 New York magazine story about a group of strippers who turned the tables on their corrupt Wall Street customers by…