Lionsgate, Oprah Winfrey Team With Pulitzer Prize Winner Nikole Hannah-Jones...
Lionsgate and media maven Oprah Winfrey have partnered with 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times to develop Hannah-Jones’ interactive project, The 1619...
View ArticleNew ‘Dirty Dancing’ Movie? Jennifer Grey To Star In & Executive Produce Dance...
EXCLUSIVE: A new untitled dance movie is taking shape at Lionsgate, set in the 1990s and starring and executive produced by Dirty Dancing Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Grey. While details are being...
View ArticleLionsgate UK & Europe CEO Zygi Kamasa Stepping Down After 15-Year Run
Zygi Kamasa, the longtime CEO of Lionsgate UK and Europe, is stepping down at the end of this month. The much respected 15-year vet of the studio’s operations on this side of the pond says he is...
View ArticleNick Cannon Syndicated Talk Show Pushed Following His Anti-Semitic Comments;...
Nick Cannon, a new daytime syndicated talk show, which had been set for an Oct. 5 national launch, will not debut this year. I hear production has shut down on the talker in the latest fallout from the...
View Article‘The Secret: Dare To Dream’ Sets PVOD Release After Theatrical Date Halted By...
UPDATED, July 17: Lionsgate said Friday that Roadside Attractions’ romantic drama The Secret: Dare To Dream, starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas, will be released on Premium Video on Demand on July...
View Article‘Power Book II: Ghost’: Shalim Ortiz To Recur In Starz/Lionsgate Spinoff
EXCLUSIVE: Grand Hotel alum Shalim Ortiz is set for a recurring role in the Starz/Lionsgate Power spinoff Ghost. The spinoff picks up shortly after the Power series finale, with Tariq (Michael Rainey...
View ArticleLionsgate And BuzzFeed Launch Motion Picture Partnership
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and BuzzFeed are partnering on a new venture to develop, produce and distribute a multi-picture slate of socially relevant and high-concept feature films for global millennial and...
View ArticleLionsgate Names Former FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn To Its Board
Lionsgate has named former FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to its board of directors. The company announced her nomination in a proxy statement filed with the SEC Tuesday. She is currently president of...
View ArticleLionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer Earned $11 Million In Fiscal 2020, Up 67% From...
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer’s total compensation for fiscal 2020 came in at $11.074 million, up sharply from $6.6 million the year before as his bonus nearly doubled and he received $1.5 million in...
View ArticleLionsgate Takes Janelle Monáe Horror Movie ‘Antebellum’ Off Calendar Temporarily
Lionsgate has taken the Janelle Monáe horror movie Antebellum off its theatrical release schedule for the time being as big exhibition reorganizes itself during COVID-19. Previously, the Gerard...
View ArticleLionsgate Q1 Revenue Slides 16%, But Results Beat Analysts’ Estimates On...
No movie theaters? No problem. Lionsgate shrugged off a 16% downturn in revenue in its fiscal first quarter to beat Wall Street estimates during the first period entirely defined by COVID-19, which has...
View ArticleJanelle Monáe Horror Movie ‘Antebellum’ Skips U.S. Theaters & Heads To PVOD
If movie theaters are planning to reopen in select locations around the country in the next month, will there be any new movies out there left to program? In another case of another movie biting the...
View Article‘John Wick 5’ Confirmed By Lionsgate; Sequel Will Be Shot Back To Back With...
Keanu Reeves is back in the back-to-back sequels game with John Wick 4 and 5 aiming to film consecutively next year. On today’s Lionsgate earnings call, the studio’s CEO John Feltheimer said, “We’re...
View ArticleNew ‘Dirty Dancing’ Movie With Jennifer Grey Confirmed By Lionsgate CEO Jon...
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer confirmed what we first told you back in mid-July, in what he billed as “one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood”: Jennifer Grey is starring and executive producing a...
View ArticleLionsgate Digs In On ‘Weeds’ Syndication Offering For The Fall; Reboot Of...
Coming off windfall global licensing sales of Mad Men last month, Lionsgate is now digging a little deeper into its library to bring Weeds to market later this year. “We’re readying our next big...
View Article‘Antebellum’: Lionsgate Film Boss Joe Drake On PVOD Outlook: “Economics Look...
Lionsgate film chief Joe Drake said the decision to skip theaters and make horror movie Antebellum a premium video-on-demand release does not mean theaters are fading from the scene. “I would love to...
View ArticleSarah Paulson Lionsgate Movie ‘Run’ Flees The Big Screen For Hulu
And it’s another Lionsgate film that’s skipping theatrical. We can confirm that the Sarah Paulson horror movie Run is moving off the theatrical release schedule and heading to Hulu. The streamer has...
View ArticleLionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer Extends Contract Further Into 2023, With Board...
Jon Feltheimer has renewed his contract as CEO of Lionsgate further into 2023 than his previous deal, with the company’s board now having the option to extend him for up to two more years beyond that....
View ArticleABC’s Rachel Bendavid To Lead BBC Studios & Lionsgate TV Partnership
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime ABC drama executive Rachel Bendavid has left the network to head BBC Studios & Lionsgate TV programming venture, I have learned. She succeeds Dan McDermott who left in March to...
View ArticleLionsgate Acquires Horror Spec ‘Mother Land’; 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy & Dan Cohen...
Lionsgate has picked up Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby’s horror spec Mother Land in what we hear was a competitive situation. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are producing. Billed as a timely and...
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