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‘La La Land’s Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling To Be Lauded At Santa Barbara Film...
The Santa Barbara Film Festival is honoring La La Land stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling with the festival’s 2017 Outstanding Performers of the Year award. The honor will be bestowed on Friday,...
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‘Step Up 6’: Lionsgate & Chinese Partners Mounting Local-Language Franchise...
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and China’s Infinity Pictures/CMC and Yue Hua Entertainment Culture Communications are finalizing plans to begin shooting Step Up 6, a Chinese-language sequel to the Step Up...
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Daniel Trachtenberg In Talks For Lionsgate’s Houdini Film
EXCLUSIVE: 10 Cloverfield Lane helmer Daniel Trachtenberg is in talks to direct Lionsgate’s film about master illusionist Harry Houdini. This is the film that seemed to pull a vanishing act after...
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Lionsgate, China’s iQIYI Extend Relationship With Long-Term Output Deal
Lionsgate and Chinese online video platform iQIYI have entered a long-term output deal which will include the studio’s upcoming features as well as some library titles. The agreement is for SVOD, TVOD...
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‘Hacksaw Ridge’ VFX Artist On Mel Gibson’s Idea: “He Wanted To Be Between The...
In a storied career, involving projects by various leading industry auteurs, Australian visual effects supervisor Chris Godfrey has tended to end up working on either war films or musicals—though he...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Boards Lionsgate’s ‘The Kingkiller Chronicle’ To Produce...
Lionsgate said today that Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is partnering with The Kingkiller Chronicle book trilogy author Pat Rothfuss to serve as creative producer and musical mastermind of...
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Hannah MacPherson To Direct Lionsgate’s ‘The Merciless’
EXCLUSIVE: Hannah MacPherson is in final talks to direct The Merciless, the Lionsgate adaptation of the Danielle Vega horror novel about good girls gone evil. Script has been written by Marlene King,...
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‘The Shack’ Trailer: Sam Worthington Meets The Holy Trinity
Lionsgate has dropped a new trailer to the forthcoming faith-based film The Shack, directed by Stuart Hazeldine and starring Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, and Tim McGraw. Based on a New York Times...
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Mel Gibson, Andrew Garfield And Bill Mechanic On The 15-Year Ordeal To Scale...
When Mel Gibson and Andrew Garfield gather to speak on their WWII film Hacksaw Ridge, each has jetted into LA from Europe, where they are making other movies. Gibson left the set of The Professor and...
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Starz Shareholders Formally Endorse Sale To Lionsgate
For the record: Starz moved a step closer to merging with Lionsgate today as the premium network company’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to support the agreement to sell itself to the studio for...
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Lionsgate Closes Deal To Buy Starz
Lionsgate and Starz are now one: The studio just closed the $4.4 billion cash and stock deal, announced in June, to buy the No. 2 premium network company. "After planning the integration of Lionsgate...
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How ‘La La Land’ Director Damien Chazelle, His Team & Lionsgate Faced The...
This following cover story appeared in the December 7th issues of Awardsline Try naming an original Hollywood musical in recent years that has worked at the box office. No, not Broadway adaptations...
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Ruben Fleischer To Direct Chris Evans In Lionsgate’s ‘Jekyll’
EXCLUSIVE: Ruben Fleischer has been set by Lionsgate to direct Chris Evans in Jekyll, the feature based on the 2007 BBC One series. Evans came attached in July, to play the lead role of Tom Jackman....
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Lionsgate’s ‘The Kingkiller Chronicle’ TV Series Sets John Rogers As Showrunner
The Librarians creator John Rogers is set to write the pilot and executive produce Lionsgate’s TV adaptation of the fantasy franchise The Kingkiller Chronicle, working alongside previously announced...
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‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Scales $100M+ At Global Box Office
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge has crossed the $100M mark at the worldwide box office. The film, which made its premiere to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, is now at $111M+ worldwide. The...
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‘Greenleaf’ Co-Showrunner Clement Virgo Seals ‘XOXO’ Pic
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is moving forward again on the social-media thriller XOXO, signing Greenleaf co-showrunner Clement Virgo to rewrite and direct. Darren Aronofsky and Groundswell Productions’...
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‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Sound Mixer Kevin O’Connell On Producing A PTSD-Triggering...
No stranger to war films, re-recording mixer Kevin O’Connell re-teamed with frequent collaborator Mel Gibson on Hacksaw Ridge, starring Andrew Garfield, which tells the tale of one of the bloodiest...
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Comcast Offers “Extras” With Universal, Paramount, Lionsgate & Sony Films
Those watching movies at home who also want to play games, explore maps or look at the sets among other things will have a chance to do so as the result of an agreement between Comcast and its...
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‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ Trailer: Keanu Reeves Is Forced To Be “That Guy” Again
“Somebody please get this man a gun.” From the new trailer Lionsgate released for the sequel to 2014’s uber-violent film John Wick: Chapter 2. In it, we see the return of star Keanu Reeves as legendary...
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‘Patriots Day’: New Trailer Shows Strength Of Human Spirit In Boston Bombing...
“Good vs. Evil. Love vs. Hate. The only weapon you have to fight back with” is the theme featured in a new trailer for Patriots Day from CBS Films and Lionsgate just released. It comes only about a...
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