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EXCLUSIVE: Jon Hartmere, writer of the Broadway-bound Britney Spears musical Once Upon a One More Time and the 2017 film The Upside, has signed with Verve. The Spears jukebox musical, with a Hartmere-penned book, sets hit songs including "Oops! I Did It Again," "Stronger," "Toxic" and "Lucky" to an irreverent take on…

Freeform and Hulu have acquired linear and digital rights to three hit films from STXfilms – Hustlers, The Upside and I Feel Pretty, all set to roll out beginning in 2020. This marks the latest collaboration between Hulu and a Disney cable network, following Hulu and FX’s deal with Lionsgate, and is another vivid…

STXfilms’ release of Lantern Entertainment’s The Upside will cross the $100 million milestone Tuesday at the domestic box office, becoming the Burbank-based studio’s second release to do so in its nearly five years of operations. Bad Moms grossed $113.2M in 2016. The Upside is Kevin Hart’s sixth starring feature to…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video has exclusively acquired all international SVOD rights to Kevin Hart-Bryan Cranston comedy-drama The Upside. Having quietly been involved from production stage, Amazon will launch the Neil Burger-directed film in all international markets as a Prime Original from April 19, which is a…

Sunday AM Update/Writethru: With most of the majors sitting on the sidelines this Super Bowl weekend, 3-day ticket sales have dropped to $74.7M per ComScore. As we projected, that’s the lowest Super Bowl weekend gross in 19 years, the previous low being $66.3M. This year’s weekend ticket sales figure is also -21% from…

Final Sunday AM after 7:49AM post: Glass, like a horror movie, was front-loaded in regards to its $14.6M Saturday being down 9% from its $16M opening (which included previews). This is a different path from M. Night Shyamalan’s previous film Split which saw a 13% spike between the two days going from $14.6M to…

The Upside director Neil Burger (Divergent) is next to make sci-fi  thriller Voyagers, which will be fully financed and co-produced by Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios. Burger will direct from his own original screenplay which will be produced by Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road Films (John Wick franchise) and Burger's Nota Bene…

FINAL SUNDAY UPDATE 10:04AM, after Sunday 7:32 AM, Saturday AM and Friday PM posts: In a slow January weekend, STXfilms reaped the box office spoils and notched its first ever No. 1 opening since launching their theatrical arm in August 2015 with The Upside posting $19.59M Rivals have often knocked STX for improperly…

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…

“You’ve been in the news lately,” Stephen Colbert said as Kevin Hart made his umpteenth TV appearance to promote The Upside, taking yet more questions about not hosting the Oscars. “What?!” Hart incredulity-feigned. The CBS late-night host read quotes from Hart’s interview that morning on ABC’s Good Morning America in…

“I’m over it,” Kevin Hart told Good Morning America multiple times when asked about the Oscar-hosting controversy that has dominated headlines for weeks. The news confirms Deadline’s scoop last week that Hart would not take on the hosting job. Hart appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America to talk about his new movie The…

An Oscar nominee who leaped into the Wes Anderson ensemble with Isle of Dogs, Bryan Cranston knows how to paint a picture. Before signing on for the director's second stop-motion outing, Cranston had never met the director; he'd only seen him in photos, and looking to understand the nature of one of the industry's…