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EXCLUSIVE: Chinese-American actor and rapper Victor Ma will star alongside Colin Firth in STXfilms and Tencent Pictures' action comedy tentatively titled New York Will Eat You Alive.  We first told you about the movie last November, which is based on Jia Haibo’s Tencent digital comic book Zombie Brother. In the film…

In the wake of STXfilms co-President of Marketing Alissa Grayson heading to Warner Bros as their new EVP of Global Publicity, the studio has raised Keri Moore to President of Marketing. Moore has overseen Creative Advertising and Brand Development for STXfilms since the studio's launch and, most recently served as…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms has set F. Gary Gray to direct Vin Diesel in the action-comedy Muscle, which will be Gray’s next film and will shoot later this year. Reginald Hudlin and Byron Phillips are producing alongside Diesel and Samantha Vincent for One Race Films. Gray will be executive producer through his Fenix Studios…

We first told you about the Neil Burger-directed thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter, starring Daisy Ridley, which Black Bear Pictures, Anonymous Content and STX International were selling at EFM. Today, STXfilms is taking U.S. rights to the feature, putting them back in business with Burger who directed the $100M-plus…

Pete Davidson is set to star in I Slept with Joey Ramone, a biopic chronicling the life of the king of punk that is being produced by Netflix and STXfilms. Jason Orley, who directed the SNL star in Hulu’s Big Time Adolescence as well as his Netflix comedy special Pete Davidson: Alive from New York, is directing the…

STXfilms said Thursday that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Violence of Action, the Tarik Saleh-directed action thriller starring Chris Pine that hails from Basily Iwanyk’s Thunder Road. The deal follows STXinternational handling international rights to the film; it will distribute it in the UK and…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms’ scam comedy Queenpins starring Kristen Bell has added a robust roster of talent to its cast. Dayo Okeniyi (See), Joel McHale (Community), Nick Cassavetes (Prisoners of the Ghostland), Michael Masini (Birds of Prey), Paul Rust (Love), Eduardo Franco (Booksmart), Marc Evan Jackson (The Good Place), L…

Nearly 20 years after the September 11 attacks, Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian takes a deeper look into the legal aftermaths following the years-long trial of the once-accused Mohamedou Ould Slahi. In the trailer for STXfilms title that dropped today, Jodie Foster’s Nancy Hollander attempts to do the difficult…

EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Sweeney has been added to the cast of American Sole, joining Pete Davidson, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Camila Mendes, Bad Bunny and Offset in the film, which is set up at STXfilms. Written and directed by Ian Edelman, the pic follows two twentysomethings (Davidson and Jackson) with mountains of college debt…

EXCLUSIVE: Latin Grammy Award-winning recording artist Bad Bunny has been added to the cast of the Ian Edelman-helmed STXfilms drama American Sole, joining previously announced cast members Pete Davidson, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Camila Mendes, and Offset. Kevin Hart is producing the film via his HartBeat production…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms' hit action pic Greenland has been set for a China release on November 20 via China Film Group and JL Vision. The Gerard Butler-starrer is the latest among a small handful of new import titles to see wide theatrical play in the Middle Kingdom following the COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year. It's…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Colin Firth has signed on to star in New York Will Eat You Alive (tentative title), the STXfilms and Tencent Pictures action-comedy based on the digital comic Zombie Brother. Todd Strauss-Schulson (Isn't It Romantic) is attached to direct the adaptation, which is being co-produced by Tencent…