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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that STXfilms is in advanced talks with Let’s Be Cops and The Girl Next Door filmmaker Luke Greenfield to direct the action-thriller We Are Untouchable. Greenfield will direct from a script he co-wrote with Captain Mauzner (Billionaire Boys Club, Wonderland, Factory Girl). The…

EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that Primetime Emmy-winning The Handmaid Tale’s director Reed Morano is in talks to helm the Jennifer Lopez feature The Godmother at STXfilms in which The Hustlers star plays real-life notorious Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco aka “The Godmother”. Oscar-winning The Departed screenwriter Wi…

EXCLUSIVE: Power Rangers filmmaker Dean Israelite has been hired to develop and direct the action thriller Rogue for STXfilms and Tencent, Deadline has learned. The logline is being kept under wraps, but we’ve heard the project revolves around a CIA agent. The film is based on a pitch from writer T.J. Fixman (Past Midn…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms has acquired Dollhouse, a horror-thriller spec written by up-and-comer Michael Paisley. This is the first deal for Paisley, who started out in the CAA mailroom and is currently the writer’s room PA on the upcoming Netflix series The Witcher, starring Henry Cavill. Dollhouse is set in the world of…

The new trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen (fka Toff Guys) brings us back to the filmmaker’s trademark frenetic Cockney action-comedy sensibilities from the days of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With its fast cuts, grimy style, fast-paced humor, paperboy caps, dandy wardrobe and kinetic…

EXCLUSIVE: The buzzworthy stripper heist pic of sisterhood Hustlers will expand its reach to Spanish-speaking audiences thanks to the app TheaterEars. Theatergoers will be able to watch Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu in the Lorene Scafaria-directed pic in Spanish by just using their smartphone and headphones…

Destiny just wants to be able to take care of her grandma and not be dependent on anyone. And maybe go shopping once in a while too. Solution: Work at a strip club and get the Wall Street guys “drunk enough to get their credit card but sober enough to sign a check.” “Are you in?” Welcome to the world of Hustlers…

STXfilms has bought the high concept comic superhero pitch Night Wolf from Detective Pikachu scribes Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, a project that Kevin Hart will star in and produce via his HartBeat Productions. Night Wolf follows a Meet the Parents-esque encounter where a man (Hart) meets his future father-in-law…

It’s all fun and games until people start to disappear. Well, we’re “100 percent almost sure” about that. Here is the new trailer for Playmobil: The Movie, STXfilms’ animation/live action adaptation of the popular toy line. This is how the game plays out: A top-secret organization has caused citizens from different…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Bachelor, a.k.a King Bach (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Meet The Blacks) and Marvel’s Daredevil actor Scott Glenn have been added cast of Greenland, the STXfilms disaster thriller starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin. Young actor Roger Dale Floyd, who will appear in WB’s The Shining…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadpool and Gotham star Morena Baccarin is in final negotiations to co-star opposite Gerard Butler in STXfilms’ disaster-thriller Greenland. Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh is helming the pic, which will go before cameras next week. Chris Sparling wrote the script, with revisions by Mitchell…