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Ewan McGregor & Cast On Bringing Philip Roth’s Explosive ‘American Pastoral’...
American Pastoral is the second feature adaptation this year after Indignation based on a Philip Roth novel, and coincidentally both titles were helmed by two guys making sublime directorial debuts:...
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Lionsgate & Univision Team For Spanish-Language SVOD Movie Service
Lionsgate and Univision Communications are teaming to launch a premium SVOD service for the Hispanic moviegoing audience in the U.S. Set to go live early next year, the unnamed service will feature...
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‘American Assassin’: First Look At Dylan O’Brien As Mitch Rapp
Train your sights on this — the first photo of The Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien in character for American Assassin, which is based on the 15-book series about counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp....
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‘Orange Is The New Black’&‘Mad Men’ Among Lionsgate Titles Available In Deal...
In a first for a Hollywood studio, Lionsgate has partnered with Vimeo to license its content for Vimeo’s global television store with titles including Orange is the New Black, Casual, The Royals, Mad...
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Lionsgate Touts Starz Plans At Annual Shareholders Meeting
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer told shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting in Toronto that he believes the merger with Starz set to close in fall comes at “exactly the right time” with the...
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Broad Green Taps Lionsgate’s Richard Fay As President Of Distribution In Wake...
Following the recent departure of distribution head Travis Reid, Broad Green Pictures has named Lionsgate’s Richard Fay as its new President of Distribution. At Lionsgate, Fay worked on the releases...
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Rob Friedman Stepping Down As Co-Chair Lionsgate; Will Serve As Special...
BREAKING, refresh for updates… 40-year-plus entertainment industry vet Rob Friedman has relinquished his daily duties as the co-chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group and has been named Special...
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‘Blair Witch’s’ Disappointing Box Office Casts A Spell On Lionsgate Shares
Investors who drove Lionsgate shares up 6.5% on Friday in hopes that Blair Witch would exceed their expectations are feeling bewitched today. The studio’s shares are down 4.7% in midday trading...
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Lionsgate Ups Veteran Exec To EVP & General Manager Biz & Legal Affairs In...
Change is afoot in the upper echelon of Lionsgate – in more ways than one. The studio behind The Hunger Games and Orange Is the New Black has moved longtime executive James Gladstone up to EVP and...
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Jason Moore To Helm Lionsgate’s ‘Goodbye For Now’
EXCLUSIVE: Pitch Perfect helmer Jason Moore just signed on to direct Goodbye For Now, an adaptation of the Laurie Frankel book. Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen are producing. A computer wiz...
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‘La La Land’ Shuffles Back One Weekend In December Rollout
Ask a number of awards prognosticators around town: If they had to make a bet in Las Vegas on a surefire Oscar contender right now, it would be Lionsgate’s La La Land, which just won the...
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‘Deepwater Horizon’ Review: Real-Life Disaster Movie Explosive But Not...
On April 20, 2010 the worst oil rig crisis and spill in American history happened in Louisiana on the Deepwater Horizon. Eleven workers died. 115 people on that rig struggled to survive. For the next...
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Lionsgate Ramps Up Streaming Biz; Taps Digital Media Maven Julie Uhrman
With Lionsgate looking to streaming as a big revenue source, the entertainment corp has hired Julie Uhrman in the newly created post of EVP & general manager of Over-the-Top ventures. In her...
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‘John Wick 2’ Trailer: “Do You Want A War?”– NY Comic-Con
After what feels like far too long, this morning we finally got our first look at John Wick: Chapter 2. The sequel to the gloriously ultraviolent 2014 sleeper hit finds unflappable killing machine and...
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Imax Opens First European VR Center In UK, Vincent Bolloré Ups Vivendi Stake...
Imax is set to open its first European virtual-reality entertainment center in Manchester, England, the company announced on Tuesday. The Imax VR experience will open in the northern England city's...
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Lionsgate Production Co-President Bobby Cohen Exiting Post
EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Cohen, Lionsgate’s co-president of production, is exiting his post. The move comes on the heels of the departure of Rob Friedman as co-chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group in...
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Lionsgate Extends CEO Jon Feltheimer’s Contract To 2023
UPDATED with compensation terms: Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer plans to keep his job there until at least May 2023 as part of a new contract that replaces the previous one due to expire in 2018, the...
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Peter Bart: Globalgate Creating Express Lane For Local-Language Film Biz
Given the studios' obsession with sequels and remakes, some producers have come up with an idea to improve the flow: Instead of waiting a few years to create a sequel, why not quickly make five or six...
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Lionsgate Circling Relativity Library As Chapter 7 Filing Looms
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is circling Relativity’s 40-plus title library — which includes films such as Limitless and Act of Valor — after it has become clear that CEO Ryan Kavanaugh’s company is backed...
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Noah Silver and Rosie Day Tread ‘Down A Dark Hall’
EXCLUSIVE: Noah Silver and Rosie Day have joined the cast of Lionsgate’s upcoming film Down A Dark Hall, opposite Anna Sophia Robb and Isabelle Fuhrman. Rodrigo Cortés is directing the pic with a...
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