Hilary Swank &‘Reacher’ Breakout Alan Ritchson To Lead Kingdom Story...
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) and Reacher breakout Alan Ritchson have signed on to star in the film Ordinary Angels from Kingdom Story Company, which...
View ArticleLionsgate Motion Picture Group Names Eric Kops Head Of Global Communications...
Eric Kops has been elevated to the new role of Lionsgate’s Head of Global Communications & Earned Media in the conglom’s motion picture division. Kops joined Lionsgate in 2020, working on such No....
View ArticlePrime Video Takes U.S. Rights To Jennifer Lopez Lionsgate Romantic Comedy...
The Jennifer Lopez-Josh Duhamel Lionsgate romantic comedy Shotgun Wedding is heading straight to streaming as Prime Video has snatched up all U.S. rights for the pic from Lionsgate. No release date has...
View ArticleZoë Bell To Direct Untitled Action Comedy Inspired By Her Short Film ‘Boss...
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has picked up an action comedy pitch from writers Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Mamrie Hart for Zoë Bell to direct, inspired by the stuntwoman’s viral short film Boss Bitch Fight...
View ArticleKingdom Story Company’s ‘Ordinary Angels’ Adds Nancy Travis, Tamala Jones & More
EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Travis (The Kominsky Method), Tamala Jones (Rebel), Emily Mitchell (What We Do in the Shadows), Skywalker Hughes (Joe Pickett), Drew Powell (The Unbreakable Boy) and Amy Acker (9-11:...
View ArticleLionsgate Films To Stream Exclusively On Roku Channel After Starz Window
Lionsgate and Roku have struck a deal giving the studio’s feature films an exclusive streaming run on the free, ad-supported Roku Channel after they play on Starz. The multi-year output arrangement...
View Article‘About My Father’s Sebastian Maniscalco Sends CinemaCon Home Laughing
Refresh for updates If there’s a continuing motif among studios presentations at CinemaCon this year, it’s comedians working the exhibition crowd. Lionsgate closed out CinemaCon with Sebastian...
View ArticleLionsgate’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.’ Footage Delights At...
The first trailer to the long-awaited feature adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. drew great laughs from exhibitors Thursday at CinemaCon. As Deadline first reported in...
View ArticleKeanu Reeves Brings ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ First Look To Lionsgate’s...
John Wick: Chapter 4 doesn’t hit theaters until March 24, but it didn’t stop the pic’s leading man Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski from giving exhibitors at Caesars Palace Colosseum Theatre an...
View ArticleRoku, Apollo Global In Joint Bid For Minority Stake Of Starz; DirecTV Also...
Roku and Apollo Global Management have teamed up to bid for a minority stake in Starz, Deadline has confirmed. A person familiar with the situation said a first round of bids was several weeks ago and...
View ArticleVivendi’s Canal+ Circling Starz Stake As Lionsgate Moves Ahead With Sale Process
Canal+, a division of French conglomerate Vivendi, is in the mix as potential suitors circle Lionsgate’s pay TV and streamer Starz, according to a person familiar with the situation. Earlier this week,...
View ArticleLionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer Believes In Netflix But Its “Pivot” Is...
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer believes Netflix still has a “tremendous business,” but they “didn’t pivot quite quickly enough” as their subscriber momentum stalled. Observations about Netflix’s effort...
View Article‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel: Jonathan Levine To Direct For Lionsgate, Details...
EXCLUSIVE: Long Shot and Warm Bodies filmmaker Jonathan Levine has been set to direct the buzzed-about sequel to beloved 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, which Lionsgate is launching for next week’s Cannes...
View ArticleLionsgate Extends First-Look Deal With Emmy Winner Ben Karlin
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has extended Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Ben Karlin and his Superego Industries’ first-look deal. Most recently, Karlin joined the Lionsgate hit Minx as an executive...
View ArticleHalle Berry To Star In Thriller ‘Mother Land’ For Lionsgate, ‘Stranger...
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball) is set to star in thriller Mother Land for Arrival and Stranger Things outfit 21 Laps. Lionsgate will launch sales on the hot package at next week’s...
View Article‘A Simple Favor’ Sequel Set With Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively & Paul Feig...
EXCLUSIVE: After the original’s box office success and critical acclaim, Lionsgate and Amazon Studios are getting the gang back together for a sequel to A Simple Favor. Sources tell Deadline the...
View ArticleProducer DeVon Franklin Steps In Front Of The Camera For Lionsgate & Kingdom...
EXCLUSIVE: Producer and bestselling author DeVon Franklin has found his first major film role in Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company’s Jesus Revolution. He joins an ensemble that also includes Kelsey...
View ArticleCovid Spike Hits Entertainment Industry Hard With Outbreaks At 4 Studios, Per...
For the past few months, the entertainment industry has been one of hardest hit — if not THE hardest hit — sectors in Los Angeles, consistently logging the highest number of Covid outbreaks in the...
View Article‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ Finds Its Coriolanus...
Tom Blyth, who stars in Epix’s Western series Billy the Kid, has been cast as the young Coriolanus Snow The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Lionsgate’s upcoming adaptation of Suzanne...
View ArticleLionsgate, Great Point Partner For Major New Jersey Studio Complex
Lionsgate will be the key tenant with naming rights to a major new studio project in Newark, New Jersey being built being by Robert Halmi and Fehmi Zeko’s Great Point Studios. The $125 million+ project...
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