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4th Update Sunday AM Writethru Sunday AM: Counterprogramming continues to be a casualty in a tentpole-dominant summer, making many in the industry wonder: Should we have just designated these films to streaming? Like we said last weekend in our mid-summer report, when smaller films like Paramount’s Crawl (now…

In the new movie Stuber, Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) works as an Uber driver in addition to his day job in a sporting goods store. His main mission in life seems to be a quest to get a five-star rating from his passengers, but it doesn’t always work out that way. If the goal of the filmmakers behind this movie are also to…

Comedian/actor Kumail Nanjiani was a last-minute cancellation from tonight’s Conan. No hard feelings from the host – he just filled the time by showing a clip from a movie that Nanjiani’s new movie Stuber will be competing against at the box office. Nanjiani was delayed because he was shooting HBO’s Silicon…

Deadline has confirmed that STX’s Dave Bautista action comedy My Spy is moving off its August 23 release date to a TBA date during Q1 2020. Word is that the studio wants to put some room between My Spy and Bautista’s other action comedy from 20th Century Fox. Stuber, which opens this weekend. We hear that the pic…

The action is intense and the bullets are flying in the red band trailer for Stuber, released Friday by 20th Century Fox. The comedy stars Kumail Nanjiani as a mild-mannered Uber driver who gets caught in a pinch when he picks up a grizzled cop played by Dave Bautista. Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy…

The very large cop flags down an Uber and tells the by-the-book driver that it’s “official police business.” After jettisoning the young women who got in later — he apparently had chosen the “UberPool option” — and making a roust-and-bust in Compton, the officer tells his driver to take a small handgun. The man…

Jason Jones has come aboard Paramount Player’s Taraji P. Henson-led comedy, What Men Want, based on Nancy Meyers 2000 rom-com, What Women Want, with Mel Gibson. This Adam Shankman-directed gender-flipped version centers around a female sports agent (Henson) who has been constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. She…

EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Morales, Mira Sorvino and Steve Howey are the latest to board the Dave Bautista-Kumail Nanjiani buddy comedy Stuber, from 20th Century Fox and director Michael Dowse. Written by Tripper Clancy, the plot centers on a mild-mannered Uber driver (Nanjiani) who picks up a grizzled cop (Bautista) on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Betty Gilpin (GLOW, Nurse Jackie) has signed on for 20th Century Fox’s Michael Dowse-directed action comedy Stuber, which is toplined by David Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani. Tripper Clancy wrote the script about a mild-mannered Uber driver (Nanjiani) who picks up a grizzled cop (Bautista) hot on the trail of…

EXCLUSIVE: Iko Uwais, the actor and fight choreographer who toplined The Raid and The Raid: Redemption, has joined the cast of Stuber, the 20th Century Fox pic that stars Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani. Fox acquired the Tripper Clancy-penned spec in April 2016. It’s about a determined detective (Bautista) who…

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Bautista, last seen in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 and Blade Runner 2049, is attached to star in Stuber, an action-comedy written by Tripper Clancy, which 20th Century Fox picked up for mid-six figures last year. Michael Dowse is directing the pic about a very determined detective (Bautista) who…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has acquired for mid-six figures Stuber, an action-comedy spec by Tripper Clancy takes place over one harrowing night in the life of an Uber driver named Stu. Tripper and his manager Jake Wagner hatched the idea, and Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley worked with him to develop the script…