A subsidiary company holding the rights to Chris Pine and Ben Foster-led thriller “The Contractor” has been put into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by STX Entertainment.
Much like with what happened with the “Greenland” sequel the other month, the SEC filing is to protect STX’s rights to the film as their parent company Eros moves ahead on a deal to sell the indie studio to an affiliate of the Najafi Companies.
Showtime and Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment acquired U.S. distribution rights to the Tarik Saleh-directed action film which will be released later this year via limited theatrical and simultaneous PVOD launch.
Pine stars in the film as a special forces sergeant involuntarily discharged from the Army and cut off from his pension. In debt, out of options and desperate to provide for his family, he 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.
Source: THR
