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Lionsgate Lands Action Comedy Spec ‘Three Hitmen And A Baby’ From Dave Matalon & Matt Altman; 87North To Produce

'Three Hitmen and a Baby,' a feature spec from Dave Matalon & Matt Altman, has sold to Lionsgate, Deadline can reveal.

Previously selling his script The Communion Letters to Syfy/UCP, he’s also the author of the book The Concise Guide to Sounding Smart at Parties, published by Random House. Altman sold his female-driven action revenge thriller Red Widow to STX in a bidding war, also seeing the script make the 2016 Hit List. Matalon is repped by Paradigm, Gotham Group, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Altman by Parallax Talent Management and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and 87North by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

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