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STX Acquires US Rights to Guy Ritchie’s Action-Comedy ‘Bush’ from Miramax

STX Acquires US Rights to Guy Ritchie’s Action-Comedy ‘Bush’ from Miramax

STX has acquired the U.S. rights to “Bush,” the next film from director Guy Ritchie, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

The studio got the film, previously titled “Toff Guys,” out of the European Film Market from Miramax, which agreed to finance the picture and handle worldwide rights back in May 2018.

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George H.W. Bush service dog Sully meets pilot he was named after

The service for dog for late former President George H.W. Bush met the famed pilot he was named after on Thursday. 

Sully, a yellow labrador, met Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, on the most recent airing of "Today."

"It's quite an honor,'' Sullenberger, who led 154 people to safety in 2009 by making an emergency landing on the Hudson River after a malfunction on US Airways Flight 1549,  said of their meeting. 

Sully gained widespread notoriety last year after the dog accompanied Bush's casket as it was flown to Washington, D.C. for memorial services. Sully, a highly-trained service dog who worked with Bush starting in the summer of 2018, made the trip before going back into service to help other ex-veterans.

Mission complete. #Remembering41 pic.twitter.com/rXdyXAS4lk

— Jim McGrath (@jgm41) December 3, 2018

Sullenberger, who has trained guide dogs for more than 20 years, said a photo of Sully appearing to sleep by Bush's casket served as an "iconic image" of the memorial services. 

"What a vigil he was holding,'' Sullenberger said of the dog. "It was quite a moving image. That was the iconic image for me of the whole service."

NBC noted that Sully will work with wounded veterans at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's Facility Dog Program starting next week.

"It was very important to President Bush that Sully carry on serving veterans, so he chose that Sully wouldn't work for one individual person, but that he would serve many veterans, and the hospital setting is the perfect environment for that,'' Sully's trainer, Valerie Cramer, said on "Today."

STX Punches For Guy Ritchie Crime-Comedy ‘Bush’ In Splashy $7M Deal, EFM 2019’s Biggest

EXCLUSIVE: In the biggest deal to emerge from the 2019 EFM, STX has finalized a deal for U.S. rights to Guy Ritchie’s Miramax pic Bush — formerly known as Toff Guys — for around $7M.

Multiple suitors were in the mix for the star-studded crime-comedy, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding and Michelle Dockery. The deal was in the works in Berlin and has just been completed.

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While the EFM was relatively sedate in comparison to a blockbuster Sundance, this is one of the biggest deals ever to come out of the Berlin market which wrapped last week. In 2016 Paramount paid around $10M for Suburbicon while TWC bought The Imitation Game for $7M in 2014.

Written by Ritchie with Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson, Bush returns the Brit filmmaker to his Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch roots. But with a twist. Ritchie also produces the film which follows a very British drug lord who tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires. Currently in post-production, the film is likely to launch later this year.

CAA Media Finance brokererd the U.S. deal on behalf of Miramax which previously closed a $25-30M world rights pact for the film out of Cannes last year. The company is in discussions with key international buyers about overseas rights.

Miramax has been on a roll under beIN Media Group Chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi and CEO Bill Block having co-financed Halloween with Blumhouse and off the back of I, Tonya, which was nominated for three Oscars in 2018.

STX posted its first number one domestic box office opening last month with Kevin Hart comedy The Upside, which is set to cross $100M this week. Meanwhile, Ritchie is also in post-production on Disney reboot Aladdin with Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott and Will Smith.

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