UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM STX CHAIRMAN-CEO ROBERT SIMONDS: Oren Aviv is leaving STX. The news comes in the wake of STX’s first animated feature UglyDolls, which cost $100M in combined production cost and P&A. It was one of the films under Aviv’s watch at the studio.
The former 20th Century Fox marketing vet was one…
With Disney making it official that for a second year in a row summer will start during the last weekend of April with Avengers: Endgame, STX Entertainment is jumping its family animated feature UglyDolls to May 3, up a week from May 10.
UglyDolls will now be the only wide entry May 3 and moves away from Warner Bros’ P…
EXCLUSIVE: Ever since it planted a flag in the shifting ground of the movie business, STX Entertainment has fashioned itself a different kind of studio, an operation bent on proving Hollywood's long-held assumptions about mid-budget films wrong.
That bid to stand apart has faced a harsh test this month as two…
STXdigital and millennial media company Uproxx will co-produce a new series exploring fight culture exclusively for Snapchat.
The show, Brawler, will offer Snapchat users a deep-dive into the minds of ancient and modern warriors. Each episode will showcase a fighting style from a different locale, from a modern-day Ju…
STX Entertainment returned to CinemaCon after making a big splash a year ago, this year armed with EuropaCorp’s slate including Luc Besson’s $180M sci-fi movie Valerian, which opens July 21.
In his opening speech, STX chief Adam Fogelson emphasized how the studio was committed to female filmmakers in the wake of its…
Talk about timely. Jonas Cuaron’s riveting, pulse-pounding Desierto premiered not at this year’s Toronto Film Festival but during the 2015 edition. Finally, STX Entertainment, which picked up the movie for domestic distribution, will release it this week, and the movie certainly touches on the hot-button topic of…
STX Entertainment is boarding Amazon Studios’ untitled action comedy from Nash Edgerton which is now in production in Mexico City. STX will co-release the title domestically with Amazon and handle international sales here in Cannes.
David Oyelowo stars with Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Thandie…
UPDATED with full trailer: A lot of movies have been adapted from video games but, so far as I know anyway, there hasn’t yet been a feature-length film that mines video games for inspiration but also cuts out the middle man entirely. Quite literally that’s the case with Hardcore Henry, an action film shot entirely in…
Horror film The Bye Bye Man has rounded out its cast, adding Carrie-Anne Moss and Faye Dunaway, along with Cleo King, Jenna Kanell, and Erica Tremblay. They join Doug Jones, Michael Trucco, and previously-announced leads Douglas Smith, Cressida Bonas, and Lucien Laviscount.
Set in 1990s Wisconsin, the film tracks…
