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UPDATED with addditional statements: A day after Disney CEO Bob Iger said it would be "difficult" for the media giant to produce TV shows and films in Georgia given its strict new abortion law, a handful of major media companies have added their voices to the chorus in a series of statements. Following reservations…

Deadline has confirmed that STX Entertainment chief operating officer Thomas McGrath is stepping down. He will remain a senior adviser at the company. McGrath, who has been at Bob Simonds' mini-major since its ramp-up, exited his post on Monday. He is reportedly planning a return to the Broadway space, where he has a…

STX Entertainment said Wednesday that UK managing director Andy Leyshon is exiting the company, part of a reshuffle that will see Llewellyn Radley promoted to Managing Director, UK & EVP International. The company also upped Rhiannon Harries from finance director to Chief Operating Officer, International. They are the…

Patricia Röckenwagner, who was promoted a year ago to Chief Brand Officer of STX Entertainment, is leaving the company. Last March, the company upped Röckenwagner from Chief Communications Officer to a larger brand role overseeing communications and marketing, as well as strategic positioning and the company’s…

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…