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STXFilms Snags Karen Gillan Assassin Movie ‘Gunpowder

STXfilms has acquired the North American rights to “Gunpowder Milkshake,” a female-fronted motion movie starring Karen Gillan as one half of a mother-daughter murderer group, the distributor introduced Monday.

Lena Headey, Angela Basset, Michelle Yeoh, Chloe Coleman, Carla Gugino and Paul Giamatti co-star within the movie that’s written by Navot Papushado and Ehud Lavski and directed by Papushado, the director’s first English-language movie and his follow-up to the Israeli movie “Big Bad Wolves” from 2013

“Gunpowder Milkshake” was financed by Studiocanal and produced by Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s The Picture Company. It tells the story of three generations of feminine assassins who battle to cease a cycle of violence over the course of 1 evening.

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“Gunpowder Milkshake has found the perfect domestic distributor in STX,” Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh mentioned in a press release. “Produced by our good partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman, this ambitious high-octane action film boasts a top-class line up of kick-ass and smart female talent who promise to light up audiences worldwide. Adam Fogelson and the team at STX has delivered time and again in this genre with hits such as ‘Hustlers’ and more recently ‘The Gentlemen.’ Partnering with them on ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ will allow us to scale a first-class campaign firmly positioning our film as an event.”

The deal was made out of the European Film Market and was negotiated by Studiocanal’s Anna Marsh, Anne Cherel, Sophie Leuthreau, STX’s Jordan Lichtman and Carolyn Steinmetz and UTA Independent Film Group. The movie is now offered out worldwide.

Deadline first reported the information of the sale.

9 Female-Led Superhero Films in 2020, From ‘The Eternals’ to ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ (Photos)

Next 12 months goes to be an enormous one for super-powered girls, with 9 female-led superhero films hitting theaters in 2020. And if tough estimates pan out, these movies might mix to gross over $four billion at film theaters worldwide. Not solely that, but when 12 months from now “Birds of Prey,” “Mulan,” “Black Widow, “Wonder Woman 1984,” and “Eternals” are among the many 12 months’s 10 highest grossing movies, will probably be the primary time ever that the record may have gender parity amongst administrators. Read on to see which girls can be kicking asses in film theaters all through 2020.
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January kicks off with Blake Lively’s long-anticipated spy thriller “The Rhythm Section,” a possible franchise-starter led from the long-time producers of the James Bond films, Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli. Lively’s got dark hair, an icy cold stare and is looking to settle things violently in the movie written by Mark Burnell based on his book of the same name. Directed by Reed Morano, best known for her work on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” it additionally stars Jude Law and Sterling Okay. Brown.
2. “Birds of Prey” — Feb. 7

Margot Robbie as soon as once more performs Harley Quinn, now damaged up with the Joker and teaming up with a crew of badass girls like Black Canary (Jurnee Smollet-Bell), Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) to cease the villain Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) earlier than he can have Cassandra Cain (Basco) murdered.
3. “Mulan” — March 27

Director Niki Caro’s stay motion tackle Disney’s 1998 animated stars Liu Yifei because the legendary Chinese warrior lady who dangers all the pieces out of affection for her household and her nation to turn into one of many biggest fighters the center kingdom has ever identified.