‘Rock Dog’ Trailer: Luke Wilson On A Mission To Make Music In Animated Family...
Lionsgate’s Summit Premiere released a new trailer to the upcoming animated comedy Rock Dogs, which features the voices of Luke Wilson, J.K. Simmons, and Eddie Izzard. Based on the Chinese graphic...
View Article‘Patriots Day’ Review: Berg & Wahlberg’s Powerful & Inspiring Look At The...
After telling the real-life heroic stories of people undergoing extreme and harrowing events in Lone Survivor and earlier this fall in Deepwater Horizon, director Peter Berg and star-producer Mark...
View ArticlePeter Bart: ‘La La Land,’ Starz Deal Leaves Lionsgate Singing About Future
Some Wall Street players have described Lionsgate as a high wire act compared with the more stolid studios. Going into the fall its stock was wilting, its senior management was shifting and its...
View ArticleAs Domestic B.O. Hits All-Time $11.37B Record, The Industry Wants A...
Updated with final 2016 figures following Dec. 29 post: With the 2016 box office at $11.37 billion, the domestic theatrical marketplace is the largest we've ever seen it, with estimated admissions...
View Article‘La La’ Landslide At Globes As Musical Wins Record 7, Including Best Picture
It was a La La Landslide in the Musical/Comedy Feature category tonight at the Golden Globes as the picture won in every category in which it was nominated and won the most Globes ever for a film. Only...
View ArticleOriginal ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Movie Returning To Theaters
With Paramount’s live-action version of Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson readying for its late-March bow, Lionsgate is getting into the action by teaming with Funimation Films to return...
View Article‘La La Land’ Ticket Sales Popping As Lionsgate Adds Over 100 Imax Theaters,...
EXCLUSIVE: Oooh La La! Following a clean sweep for Lionsgate’s La La Land at the Golden Globes last night, the musical romancer from Damien Chazelle is finding ticket sales popping as the studio will...
View ArticleLionsgate Invests in eSports Franchise The Immortals
Lionsgate just raised its bet on sSports by making an investment in one of its most popular franchises: The Immortals. No word yet on how much the studio is spending, or how big a stake it will own. It...
View ArticleJohn Malone Sees Media Mega Deals Ahead, With Lionsgate Ready To Profit
Is the media industry headed for a new round of merger mania? Liberty Media’s John Malone apparently thinks so speculating this morning about deals with the three largest cable companies buying...
View ArticleLionsgate To Distribute Participant Media Films Overseas
Lionsgate unveiled today a deal to distribute films outside of North America for Participant Media, including what it describes as “available non-output territories” from its deal with Amblin Partners....
View ArticleLionsgate Execs Talk Future With Starz; One Regret They Have On ‘La La Land’
Lionsgate execs talked up Starz, La La Land, and their “risk mitigation strategy” to profit from movies and TV shows as they wrapped up a lengthy Investor Day series of presentations to attract Wall...
View ArticleLionsgate & Pantelion To Release ‘Everybody Loves Somebody’ In February
Lionsgate and its Pantelion Film division will release writer-director Catalina Aguilar Mastretta’s romantic comedy Everybody Loves Somebody on February 17. The film follows the beautiful Clara Barron...
View ArticleIn The Throes Of War, A Love Theme: Rupert Gregson-Williams On The Score For...
"It’s about the story, not about the music." That's the wisdom that Rupert Gregson-Williams received from Hans Zimmer 18 years ago when the composer was cutting his teeth, writing cues for DreamWorks...
View Article‘La La Land’ Lyricists Benj Pasek And Justin Paul Recall Their Passionate...
Between the triumphant release of their film debut, with Damien Chazelle's La La Land, and the Broadway premiere of their latest musical, Dear Evan Hansen, lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are in a...
View ArticleJeff Apploff Inks Deal With Lionsgate To Create Unscripted Programming
Don’t Forget the Lyrics creator Jeff Apploff has signed a deal to create original nonscripted series and formats for Lionsgate Television via his Apploff Entertainment banner. Under the agreement,...
View Article‘La La Land’ Twirls Past $50M Overseas; Shines With $132M Global Box Office
Lionsgate's seven-time Golden Globe winner and awards-season darling, La La Land, continues to hit the high notes with bright and shiny bows in key overseas markets this weekend. The offshore FSS frame...
View ArticleCannes Film Festival Re-Elects Pierre Lescure As President; Lionsgate Inks...
As Cannes gears up for its 7oth edition this year, former Canal Plus chief Pierre Lescure has been unanimously re-elected as the fest's president for a new three-year term. Lescure was first named...
View ArticleTupac Shakur Biopic ‘All Eyez On Me’ Gets Summer Release From Lionsgate’s Summit
The Tupac Shakur biopic from Morgan Creek has been given a summer release date, opening wide on June 16, 2017. Summit Entertainment is distributing All Eyez On Me, which chronicles the rapper's life...
View Article‘Power Rangers’ Trailer: New Legion Of Teen Warriors Suits Up For Morphin’ Time
Lionsgate has dropped the full official trailer for Power Rangers, its upcoming feature that’s based on Saban Brands’ long-running kids series of the same name — and is designed as the kickoff of a...
View ArticleLionsgate Ups Pair To Run TV Unit’s Business Affairs
Lionsgate has promoted Matthew Kearns and Dan Hadl to EVP Business Affairs and inked both to new long-term deals, the company said today. They will report to Lionsgate Television Group president Sandra...
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