STX Places Chris Pine & Ben Foster Movie ‘The Contractor’ In Bankruptcy
deadline.comAs STX looks to untangle itself from previous company Eros, and segue to its new finance partner Najafi Companies, the Robert Simonds studios has put its latest Chris Pine & Ben Foster thriller, The Contractor, in chapter 11 bankruptcy.Showtime and Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, as Deadline first told you, acquired U.S.
distribution rights to the Tarik Saleh-directed action movie, which will be released later this year. Similar to Queenpins which STX sold to Paramount+ and Showtime for $20M, the deal on The Contractor will see the pic released in a limited number of theaters by Paramount with a simultaneous PVOD release across platforms.So what’s going on here?Pine stars in The Contractor as Special Forces Sgt.
James Harper, who is involuntarily discharged from the Army and cut off from his pension. In debt, out of options and desperate to provide for his family, Harper contracts with a private underground military force.
When the very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself caught in a dangerous conspiracy and on the run for his life.Gillian Jacobs, Kiefer Sutherland, Eddie Marsan, Fares Fares, Nina Hoss, and Amira Casar also star in the J.P.
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