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UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM STX CHAIRMAN-CEO ROBERT SIMONDS: Oren Aviv is leaving STX. The news comes in the wake of STX’s first animated feature UglyDolls, which cost $100M in combined production cost and P&A. It was one of the films under Aviv’s watch at the studio. The former 20th Century Fox marketing vet was one…

The Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) announced final additions to their programming which includes the world premiere of the Netflix film Good Sam starring Tiya Sircar. The fest, which was co-created by Geena Davis and champions inclusion in all forms of media, has also added spotlight screenings of Gurinder Chadha’s…

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…

5th Update/writethru Sunday AM: Following Saturday and Friday posts, refresh for Sunday chart and more analysis.  Why did three studios book new titles against Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame‘s second weekend? They truly believed they were counter-programming the monster hit and could somehow survive: Lionsgate’s Lon…

With just a few weeks to go before the fourth chapter of Disney/Pixar’s magical Toy Story hits theaters, families could do a lot worse than to spend 88 minutes with some other toy dolls who, while they don’t have exactly the same name recognition — or, let’s face it, brilliance — as in those movies, do their best…

STX Entertainment is partnering with Alibaba Pictures to co-produce and co-finance content from its upcoming UglyDolls franchise as the studio looks to build a long-term global IP. The animated feature film based on David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim’s popular toy line opens on May 3. Already, STX is planning an animated…

With Disney making it official that for a second year in a row summer will start during the last weekend of April with Avengers: Endgame, STX Entertainment is jumping its family animated feature UglyDolls to May 3, up a week from May 10. UglyDolls will now be the only wide entry May 3 and moves away from Warner Bros’ P…

Prepare for the arrival of Ugly. STXfilms has unleashed the first trailer for UglyDolls, a toon film inspired by the plush-toy line launched in 2001. Check it out above. Here’s the logline: In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weird is celebrated, strange is special, and beauty is embraced as more than simply…

UTA has signed Pitbull, the Grammy-winning rap star and entrepreneur who just wrapped concert tours with Enrique Iglesias, Britney Spears and a residency at Planet Hollywood. The news comes as he readies to host his annual Worldwide NYE event at Bayfront Park in Miami on New Year's Eve. Pitbull, who NYE event was…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re The Millers and American Horror Story star Emma Roberts is joining the voice cast of STX family animation UglyDolls. Roberts will play character Wedgehead and joins previously announced cast including Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton, Janelle Monáe, Nick Jonas, Wanda Sykes, Gabriel Iglesias and…

Country music star and The Voice judge Blake Shelton is the latest to lend his voice to the STX animated feature UglyDolls. Shelton will also perform original songs as the character of OX, the unofficial Mayor of Uglyville. joins previously announced cast members Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, Pitbull, Wanda Sykes, and…

Comedians Gabriel Iglesias and Wanda Sykes are boarding the voiceover cast of STX’s UglyDolls, joining Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas and Pitbull who were previously announced. The pic opens on May 10, 2019 and will officially launch the studio’s UglyDolls franchise with an animated TV series already underway on…