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STX Entertainment has promoted Amy Elkins to President of Media & Marketing Innovation. She is the studio’s first digital-media head and will oversee marketing innovation across STX's business divisions. Reporting to STXfilms Chairman Adam Fogelson and STX Entertainment EVP, Corporate Strategy and General Counsel Noah…

Bill McGlashan, the founder and managing partner of TPG Growth which is majority owner of CAA and helped launch STX Entertainment among other Hollywood entities, has been put on administrative leave by parent company TPG after he was among 46 people indicted Tuesday for their part in a nationwide college bribery…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest deals to emerge from the 2019 EFM, STX has finalized a deal for U.S. rights to Guy Ritchie’s Miramax pic Bush — formerly known as Toff Guys — for around $7M. Multiple suitors were in the mix for the star-studded crime-comedy, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Fa…

I first saw The Upside at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. At the party afterwards, Harvey Weinstein, who was the distributor, was lapping up the strong reaction and talking an Oscar/Globe qualifying run for late fall of that year. However, one of the producers told me they thought it was just a commercial play and…

STXfilms will open their AFM acquisition Poms on May 10, Mother’s Day weekend. The Diane Keaton movie opens close to a year after her previous hit spring comedy Book Club which earned $90M WW. When it comes to launching female-skewing fare, studios try to capitalize on Mother’s Day weekend as a launch pad. It’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix continues to bolster its film and TV ranks with the hire of STX Entertainment production executive Sheroum Kim as Director Of Independent Films. The Los Angeles-based Kim, who joins Netflix next week, will report to Matt Brodlie, Director of Content Acquisitions. Kim most recently served as SVP…

EXCLUSIVE: STXalternative, a division of Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment, has signed a first-look development and production deal with Tracey Edmonds and her Edmonds Entertainment, to co-produce and co-develop scripted and unscripted content for traditional and alternative platforms. The first project under the pact…

As Deadline exclusively reported back on October 5, STX Entertainment has allowed its application on the Hong Kong Stock exchange to lapse. Originally the motion picture television entertainment studio was seeking to raise a half billion. STX blamed rocky market conditions. The Hang Seng Index is down 24% since April…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with more info: STX has acquired the Jennifer Lopez Hustlers project, which was cut loose by Annapurna earlier in the day. At the same time, Crazy Rich Asians star Constance Wu has joined the cast for a lead role per sources close to the project. Soon after the news broke today that Annapurna was pul…

EXCLUSIVE: STX Entertainment is re-evaluating making its initial public stock offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is contemplating, among its options, whether to sell shares on one of the U.S. exchanges, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The independent film studio had hoped to raise $500…

Jennifer Lopez’s romantic comedy Second Act from STX is moving out of the crowded Thanksgiving Eve frame of Wednesday Nov. 21 to Dec. 14. This puts the Peter Segal-directed film in a pre-Christmas weekend as counterprogramming to Universal’s fantasy pic Mortal Engines and Sony’s fanboy animated feature Spider-Man: Into…

Grammy- and Golden Globe-nominated singer and actor Nick Jonas has boarded STX’s animated feature UglyDolls, in which he’ll headline as a voice-over and perform an original song. He joins previously announced co-stars Kelly Clarkson and Pitbull. "Nick Jonas is not only a talented musician, he's also an accomplished…