Lionsgate Lands K-Pop Comedy ‘Seoul Girls’ Penned And Produced By Rebel Wilson
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has obtained rights to Seoul Girls, a comedy feature written by Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson, with a recent revision by Young iI Kim (Rodham, Billions). Wilson also will take on...
View Article‘Swimming With Sharks’: Quibi, Lionsgate & Kathleen Robertson Team For Drama...
Swimming with Sharks will infest the shortform waters. Quibi has ordered a Lionsgate-produced drama series that will be a contemporary update of the 1994 movie. Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First)...
View Article‘Knives Out’ Breaks Out $2M In Paid Previews Over The Weekend
Count Lionsgate/MRC’s Knives Out among the strong wave of paid previews of late at the box office. The Rian Johnson-directed ensemble pic grossed $2M from 936 major and regional theaters over Friday...
View ArticleDeb Aquila And Tricia Wood Exit Lionsgate, Return To Independent Casting
EXCLUSIVE: Deb Aquila and Tricia Wood of the top tier casting office Aquila Wood Casting are leaving their exclusive five-year run at Lionsgate Films. The Artios Award winners will return to the realm...
View ArticleLionsgate Picks Up ‘Moonfall’ Sci-Fi From ‘Midway’ Helmer Roland Emmerich
Following a solid opening of the WWII pic Midway, Lionsgate is re-teaming with the film’s director Roland Emmerich by acquiring the North American distribution rights to his upcoming sci-fi feature...
View ArticleRoadside Attractions Acquires Robert Dugoni’s Spy Thriller ‘The Eighth...
Indie feature studio Roadside Attractions, a Lionsgate sister company, is continuing its push into scripted television, acquiring Robert Dugoni’s bestelling and critically acclaimed spy thriller The...
View ArticleFox Developing Remakes Of UK Drama ‘Silent Witness’ To Star Melissa Leo &...
Fox has put into development two British adaptations – remakes of crime drama Silent Witness and off-beat comedy This Country — with significant commitments. The network has handed a script plus...
View Article‘Bombshell’ Cast & Filmmakers On The Importance Of Calling Out And Ending...
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, screenwriter Charles Randolph and director Jay Roach filled the stage of the DGA Theater earlier this month during Lionsgate’s session at...
View Article‘Knives Out’ Review: Daniel Craig Leads All-Star Cast Investigating...
Writer-director Rian Johnson loves to dip into completely different genres and modes of storytelling in his various movies including the high school noir Brick, conmen comedy The Brothers Bloom,...
View ArticleSteven Soderbergh Looks Back At ‘The Limey,’ His Personal “Vortex Of Terror”
Steven Soderbergh famously had a year when everything seemed to go his way as a filmmaker and it culminated in March 2001 when the Louisiana native arrived at the 73rd Academy Awards with two...
View Article‘Trill League’: 50 Cent and Lionsgate Bring Black Superhero Series To Quibi
Quibi and Lionsgate are teaming with rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson for the animated series Trill League, an adaptation of Anthony Piper’s indie graphic novel and its anime-inflected, hip-hop-informed...
View Article‘Bombshell’s Goal Was To Open Men’s Eyes To What Women Face, Writer &...
Bombshell tells the story of the sexual harassment claims Fox News anchors Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman), Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) and other newsroom reporters filed against Roger Ailes (John...
View ArticleStarz-Comcast Carriage Tangle May Dent Lionsgate’s Profit ‘Power’, Analyst Says
With time dwindling before the December 31 expiration of their current carriage agreement, Lionsgate and Comcast remain in discussions about the continued distribution of Starz. The talks are being...
View Article‘Knives Out’s Rian Johnson On The One Thing Missing From Modern Mysteries –...
Writer-director Rian Johnson took inspiration from his favorite Agatha Christie mysteries for Knives Out, which has has been holding its own with adult audiences at the fall box office. But he told the...
View Article‘Bombshell’ Booms In Nationwide Expansion, Amazon’s ‘Invisible Life’ Debuts,...
As we enter the holidays Lionsgate and Bron Studios are looking to explode with the nationwide release of the Jay Roach-directed Bombshell starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. The...
View ArticleComcast And Starz Reach Carriage Deal; Lionsgate, NBCUniversal Swap Streaming...
UPDATED with stock movement, Wall Street reaction. Resolving a closely tracked negotiation, Comcast and Starz said Monday they have entered into a long-term carriage deal, more than a week before the...
View Article‘Knives Out’: Read Rian Johnson’s Script For His Awards-Season Whodunit
EXCLUSIVE: The traditional Hollywood whodunit was never completely killed off (Robert Altman’s Gosford Park memorably revived its formula and formalities back in 2002, for instance; Kenneth Branagh’s...
View ArticleBox Office 2019: What Went Right & Wrong In An $11.4 Billion Year & How 2020...
Editors note: The 2019 domestic box office figures are for the period of January 1-December 29. We will update further on January 2. With the total 2019 domestic box office expected to ring up close to...
View Article‘Bombshell’ Director Jay Roach On His Explosive Film, Why Politics And Movies...
Jay Roach may have started out as a feature film director with a series of wildly successful comedies — including both the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises — but in recent years his focus...
View Article‘Knives Out’ To Beat ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Domestic B.O.: How Rian...
Not to gush, but let’s seriously behold the success of Media Rights Capital and Lionsgate’s Knives Out. We’ve already overwritten how the whodunit is a win for original movies in last year’s Disney...
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