DOUGLAS, Isle of Man and
BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Eros STX Global
Corporation (NYSE:ESGC) ("ErosSTX"), a global
entertainment company, announced today that pop music superstar
Bebe Rexha will make her feature
film acting debut in the upcoming female-driven comedy
Queenpins. The announcement was made today by Adam Fogelson, chairman of the STXfilms Motion
Picture Group.
Queenpins will reunite the studio with Bad
Moms star Kristen Bell for a
film inspired by the true story of the largest coupon counterfeit
scam in US history. Bell will re-team with her "The
Good Place" and "Veronica
Mars" co-star Kirby
Howell-Baptiste, as well as Vince
Vaughn and Paul Walter
Hauser. Queenpins will be distributed in the US, UK,
and Ireland by STX, and the studio
will handle international distribution through its network of
global partners.
After seeing success with such female-driven titles as the
Bad Moms franchise, I Feel Pretty and
Hustlers, STX was drawn to Queenpins, which will
center on the story of a suburban housewife, fed up with being
dismissed and overlooked by her husband and society, who decides to
take back control of her life by starting an illegal coupon club.
Her creation ends up scamming millions of dollars from big food
companies while delivering deals to millions of fellow coupon
clippers.
Fogelson said, "This is a perfect film for Bebe to
be making her live-action film debut. She's an
incredible talent and international superstar and we love her for
this role as Tempe Tina, an eccentric computer hacker who
helps our heroines with their coupon scam. We know she will add so
much fun, talent and personality to this cast."
STX previously collaborated with Rexha on their animated feature
UglyDolls.
The film is written and directed by Aron
Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly and produced by AGC Studios,
Marquee Entertainment and Red Hour Films. AGC's
Linda McDonough will produce
alongside Red Hour's Nicky
Weinstock. AGC Studios Chairman Stuart Ford and Miguel
A. Palos, Jr. will executive produce alongside Ben Stiller and Breean
Solberg of Red Hour. The project was developed by McDonough
under her Marquee Entertainment banner prior to joining AGC earlier
this year. Patricia Braga is overseeing the project for
STXfilms.
Bebe Rexha is represented by UTA,
Sal & Co., and attorney Kenny
Meiselas of Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks.
ABOUT BEBE REXHA:
Diamond-selling and two-time Grammy®-nominated New York City native Bebe Rexha is a musical force to be reckoned
with. Her RIAA Gold-certified debut album Expectations
(released June 2018 on Warner Records) contained the Platinum single
"I'm a Mess" and global chart-topping
smash "Meant to Be" (featuring Florida Georgia Line), now RIAA Certified
Diamond. "Meant to Be" held the #1 spot on the
Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for a record-setting 50 straight
weeks, the longest reign ever by a female lead artist, and won Top
Country Song at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards and Best
Collaboration at the 2018 iHeart Radio Music Awards. It was
subsequently nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at
the 61st annual Grammy Awards® in February 2019, where Bebe was also nominated for
Best New Artist. Early in her career, Bebe won the National Academy
of Recording Arts and Sciences' Best Teen Songwriter
Award, and then formally burst onto the scene when she wrote
"The Monster," a worldwide hit for Eminem and Rihanna
that was certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA. Bebe went on to
co-write and carry the instantly recognizable hook for the 3x
Platinum "Hey Mama," by David
Guetta, which was nominated for a Billboard Music Award for
Top Dance/Electronic Song. Bebe also hit #1 on the Billboard Pop
and Rap charts with her 5x Platinum "Me, Myself &
I" with G-Eazy. In 2017, Bebe released the critically acclaimed
EPs, All Your Fault: Part 1 (with the Platinum single
"I Got You"), and All Your Fault: Part 2 (with
"Meant to Be"). Now in 2020, Bebe has amassed almost 4
billion YouTube views and over 12 billion total global streams and
counting. In conjunction with Grammy® Week 2019, Bebe launched the
Grammy® Music Education Coalition's (GMEC) national
campaign on behalf of its new All-Star Ambassador program, whose
members also include Luis Fonsi, Rita
Ora, Kristin Chenoweth,
Regina Spektor and others. In
October, 2020, Bebe released her brand new single,
"Baby, I'm Jealous" feat. Doja Cat, which
is the first track from her forthcoming Spring, 2021 album.
About AGC Studios
AGC Studios (www.agcstudios.com) was
founded and launched by Chairman and CEO Stuart Ford in February
2018 as a platform to develop, produce, finance and globally
license a diverse portfolio of feature films, scripted, unscripted
and factual television, digital and musical content from its dual
headquarters in Los Angeles and
London. The new
studio's Hollywood
output is designed for exploitation across an array of global
platforms including major studio partnerships, streaming platforms,
traditional broadcast and cable television networks and independent
distributors, both in the US and internationally. AGC Studios is
initially backed by three key strategic investors: Latin American
private asset management firm MediaNet Partners
(https://medianetpartners.com/en/); Silicon Valley entrepreneur and
founder and chairman of Fibonacci Films, Greg Clark; and Image Nation Abu Dhabi
(https://imagenationabudhabi.com/), one of the leading media and
entertainment companies in the Arabic-speaking world. Chief
Operating Officer Miguel Palos is
also a stakeholder in and co-founder of the business with Ford. The
company has three principal operating subsidiaries: production arm
AGC Productions; distribution arm AGC International; and financing
arm AGC Capital.
ErosSTX Global Corporation:
Eros STX Global
Corporation, ("ErosSTX" or "The Company")
(NYSE: ESGC) is a global entertainment company that acquires,
co-produces and distributes films, digital content & music
across multiple formats such as theatrical, television and OTT
digital media streaming to consumers around the world. Eros
International Plc changed its name to Eros STX Global Corporation
pursuant to the July 2020 merger with
STX Entertainment, merging two international media and
entertainment groups. The combination of one of the largest Indian
OTT players and premier studio with one of Hollywood's fastest-growing
independent media companies has created an entertainment powerhouse
with a presence in over 150 countries. ErosSTX delivers star-driven
premium feature film and episodic content across a multitude of
platforms at the intersection of the world's most dynamic and
fastest-growing global markets, including US, India, Middle
East, Asia and China. The Company also owns the rapidly
growing OTT platform Eros Now which has rights to over 12,000 films
across Hindi and regional languages and had 205.8 million
registered users and 33.8 million paying subscribers as of
June 30th, 2020. For further
information, please visit ErosSTX.com.
STXfilms:
STXfilms, a division of Eros STX Global
Corporation, is a next-generation film studio that produces,
acquires, distributes, and markets motion pictures at scale. From
blockbusters like Hustlers, Bad Moms, and The Upside to hits like
The Gentlemen, Molly's Game, and The Gift, STXfilms
produces star-driven films for a global audience. In just 5 short
years, its slate of films has already grossed over $1.8b in global theatrical box office. With a
wide range of partners including Universal Pictures Home
Entertainment and Showtime (which handle the physical and premium
television releases of STXfilms content, respectively), the studio
is a fast-growing, industry powerhouse.
About Red Hour
Red Hour is a creative production
company dedicated to discovering new writers and filmmakers and
telling innovative stories across all media. Led by partners
Ben Stiller and Nicky Weinstock, Red Hour has expanded to
produce an exceptionally wide range of features and television
shows – including, most recently, the Showtime limited event series
Escape at Dannemora, which was
nominated for 12 Emmy Awards; the hit Netflix comedies Alex
Strangelove and The Package; the Tribeca Film Festival
award-winning Plus One, now streaming on Hulu; and the CW and
Netflix series In the Dark. Past films from Red Hour include The
Secret Life of Water Mitty, Tropic Thunder, Dodgeball,
and Zoolander; and in television, the company has
produced an array of series including IFC's The
Birthday Boys and Comedy Central's The Meltdown with
Jonah and Kumail, Big Time in Hollywood,
FL and Another Period. Red Hour's next
production, which begins filming in November, will be the sci-fi
drama series Severance for Apple TV, starring Adam Scott, Patricia
Arquette, John Turturro and
Christopher Walken.
Contact Information
Steve Elzer
Elzer & Associates
steve@elzerassociates.com
213-392-4660
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