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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…

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…

Glen Powell has been tapped to star in Wanna F*** Your Brother, co-production with STXfilms and MWM Studios. The Other Woman screenwriter Melissa Stack wrote the script and is directing the film about a buttoned-up lawyer who gets her black sheep younger brother a summer job at her New York law firm. He quickly…

As the old saying goes, you can make it fast, you can make it cheap, and you can make it good, but you can’t have all three. In the case of STXfilms and Alibaba’s UglyDolls, it was the first two points making for a disastrous start at the box office of $8.5M for this reported $45M-$53M net production, intended to…

Sabrina Carpenter has taken the lead in the Alicia Keys dance comedy production Work It from STXfilms and Alloy Entertainment. The pic, which was announced at CinemaCon during STX’s session, is being directed and rewritten by Laura Terruso from an original script by Alison Peck (whose UglyDolls opens tomorrow). Work It…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Garner is set to star in Fantasy Camp, a comedy set up at STXfilms. Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein are attached to write and direct the feature. They are the helming duo behind the Amy Schumer starring rom-com I Feel Pretty, which was also at STX. Kohn and Silverstein also penned films such as Never…

Recording artist Lizzo has been added to the cast of STXfilms' Hustlers, joining Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer, Julia Stiles, Mercedes Ruehl, Trace Lysette, Mette Towley, and Madeline Brewer. The marks the “Juice” crooner’s live-action film debut and her second collaboration with…

Jennifer Lopez and STXfilms are again teaming on a feature. Following 2018’s Second Act and the forthcoming Lopez- and Constance Wu-led drama Hustlers, they are rejoining for the romantic comedy Marry Me. Owen Wilson is in final negotiations to star opposite Lopez. Kat Coiro, known in the TV space for directing pilots…

STXfilms has locked in September 13, 2019, as the release date for Hustlers, the Lorene Scafaria-helmed drama starring Jennifer Lopez, who made the announcement on her Instagram account while on set. Constance Wu, Cardi B, Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer, and Julia Stiles also star. <a…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms has set the cast for their horror thriller Countdown about an app which tells people when they’re going to be killed. Joining previously announced Elizabeth Lail is Talitha Bateman (Love, Simon, Annabelle: Creation), Peter Facinelli (Twilight franchise), P.J Byrne (Green Book, Rampage), Anne Winters…

Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Ocean’s 8) and Ike Barinholtz (Blockers, The Oath) have signed to star in Crime After Crime, a caper comedy that they also will produce for STXfilms. Nick Stoller and Conor Welch also producing under their Stoller Global Solutions banner, along with David Stassen. Dan Gurewitch and David…