STX Wins Domestic Rights to Untitled Kevin McDonald Legal Thriller

Kevin Costner didn’t hold back on his thoughts about President Trump’s “criminal” interference with the United States Postal Service in a recent interview. Costner played a drifter who posed as a USPS mailman in the 1997 movie “The Postman,” which was supposed to be set in 2013.The film shows the actor restoring democracy by delivering letters to and from other towns after a totalitarian leader tries to take over one Western town.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Camila Mendes has joined STX’s after-market sneakers high-stakes feature drama American Sole, which Deadline first told you about yesterday.American Sole follows two twenty-somethings (Pete Davidson and O’Shea Jackson) with mountains of college debt who use the fast cash of after-market sneaker reselling to achieve their American dream.

Also Read: Why 'King of Staten Island' is a 'Love Letter' to Pete Davidson's Mom | Video“American Sole is a story about the highly exciting, very profitable sneaker industry and the secondary sneaker market,” Paul said in a statement.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Following the success of Hustlers, STXfilms looks to have found a project  in the vein of that box-office smash and has teamed with two of Hollywood’s biggest rising stars on it. Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson and Straight Outta Compton‘s O’Shea Jackson Jr.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorKirk McDonald. a top executive at WarnerMedia’s Xandr ad-tech unit, was named the new CEO of North American operations of WPP’s large GroupM media-buying firm, marking the latest in a string of top advertising leaders to leave the AT&T media operation.GroupM is one of the largest and most influential media-buying operations in the industry, managing about $17.6 billion in media billings across the U.S.

Janet W. Lee Bleecker Street has released the first trailer of “The Secrets We Keep,” a drama starring Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Chris Messina, set to premiere Sept.

Kevin Durant beat the Toronto rapper, Drake, in a game of one-on-one, the New York Post claimed today. Even though the basketball player is currently recovering from an injury, he managed to beat Drake in the new music video for “Laugh Now, Cry Later.” Basketball fans know that Kevin Durant hasn’t played in an NBA game ever since he ruptured his Achilles tendon in the 5th game of the 2019 NBA finals against the Warriors.

according to the Wall Street Journal.As the Journal reported on Friday, McKenzie is not explicitly named in the lawsuit but is the “principal stakeholder in several businesses that have business relationships with the NRA” that received over $100 million from the NRA.The suit also said that “principal stakeholder” paid for NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s trips to the Bahamas, that LaPierre used the stakeholder’s 108-foot yacht, which is “equipped with four staterooms, a 16-foot jet boat, and two jet

Hanna Flint Guest Contributor“Judas and the Black Messiah” writer and director Shaka King has defended the casting of Daniel Kaluuya in the role of American civil rights leader Fred Hampton.The historical biopic, produced by Ryan Coogler and endorsed by Hampton’s son, Fred Hampton Jr, positions the British actor as the iconic leader of the Black Panther Party with Lakeith Stanfield playing the lesser-known William O’Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated the political group and fed intel to

Charlie Kaufman is one of the world's greatest living screenwriters, but the Oscar-winning writer and director hasn't made a live-action movie since 2008's Synecdoche, New York, because his movies don't make the kind of box office profit studios want. Fortunately for us, Netflix doesn't care about the box office.

Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman is quite the character, beyond writing modern surrealist classics like “Being John Malkovich,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Adaptation” and writing and directing some of his own strange postmodern features like “Synecdoche, New York” and the stop-motion film “Anomalisa.” Kaufman has been doing the press rounds quite a bit this summer, promoting not only his upcoming Netflix movie “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” but also his new book “Antkind.” And a

The Duchess of Sussex has won the latest tussle in her legal action against a British newspaper after a UK High Court judge ruled in her favour over protecting the identities of five friends who gave an anonymous interview to a US magazine.

Meghan Markle has won her High Court bid to protect the identities of her five friends who anonymously spoke about her to a US magazine. Five of Meghan’s closest friends defended her in an article in People Magazine and in July, the Duchess of Sussex appealed to the court against naming them in legal documents.The High Court has ruled that the five friends, addressed in court as A, B, C, D and E, won't be named in court "for the time being, at least”.

Comedian Kevin Hart is the latest star to publicly defend Ellen DeGeneres, amid controversy over an allegedly toxic environment on her talk show.

has sent federal agents into cities to kidnap protesters, bragged endlessly about passing a test for dementia, and floated the idea of postponing the election.

A day of passionate speeches and unforgettable stories at Rep. John Lewis‘ funeral service ended with triumphant, heartbreaking words from his friend, former President Barack Obama. Obama joined two other former presidents, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, in honoring the memory and legacy of the Civil Rights icon, who fought tirelessly for justice until he died on July 17.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorEros International and STX Corp. have formally closed their merger and said the combined firm plans a listing on the New York Stock Exchange in September.The combined entity, which blends the film and TV operations of large-scale indie STX with the production and streaming assets of India-based Eros, will trade under the symbol ESXI.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The 24th, the period drama based on true events from Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman co-writer Kevin Willmott.