Suspicious Package At Lionsgate Offices Prompts FBI Investigation
A package containing a suspicious powdery substance was discovered in the first-floor mailroom of Lionsgate’s Santa Monica headquarters Thursday, sources confirm to Deadline. The incident happened...
View ArticleFormer Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s Fund Acquires Big Stake In Lionsgate
Liberty Strategic Capital, a private equity fund led by former Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, has acquired a hefty 5.5% stake in Lionsgate Class A voting shares at a strategically sensitive...
View ArticleHasbro Chief Calls EOne Sale A “Painful” Decision But “Absolutely The Right...
Hasbro’s chief executive said the toy giant’s renewed focus on its roots by selling eOne was a hard decision but the best one for the company, which will save in terms of management distraction and...
View ArticleSean Perry’s 2500 Media Strikes Deal With Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media
Sean Perry, the former WME non-scripted packaging agent and partner, has teamed up with one of his former clients after the launch of his own production company. Perry launched 2500 Media earlier this...
View Article‘The Crow’ Reboot With Bill Skarsgård & FKA Twigs Flies To Lionsgate In...
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has just tied up an eight-figure deal for domestic rights to The Crow reboot, we can reveal. Bill Skarsgård (It), singer-songwriter FKA twigs (Honeyboy) and Danny Huston...
View ArticleeOne President Of International Distribution Stuart Baxter Exiting Ahead Of...
EXCLUSIVE: eOne’s long-serving President of International Distribution, Stuart Baxter, is leaving ahead of the Yellowjackets and The Rookie studio’s $500M sale to Lionsgate, we can reveal. The former...
View ArticleStarz CEO Jeff Hirsch “Excited” For Lionsgate Split: “It’s Hard For Investors...
Starz CEO Jeff Hirsch said the long-in-the-works separation of the premium linear and streaming programmer from Lionsgate’s studio unit will be a boost to both entities. “I don’t think the Starz story...
View ArticleLionsgate Suspends Non-Writing Producer Deals; Assistants & Execs To Be Paid...
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television has joined other studios in suspending overall and first-look deals with non-writing producers who are not rendering services due to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA...
View Article‘The Continental’ TV Review: ‘John Wick’ Prequel Drenched In Disco, Heroic...
Keanu Reeves’ master assassin may have been left for almost dead at the end of the fourth John Wick film, but things are alive and kicking in the franchise, at least retroactively. Or, to quote Mel...
View Article‘The Hunger Games’ Prequel ‘The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ Unveils New...
UPDATED, 9:11 a.m.: After previewing the first trailer for The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes at CinemaCon, Lionsgate has unveiled another one teasing Rachel Zegler’s fight for...
View Article‘Expendables 4’ Review: Jokey, Fight-Filled Last Hurrah Feels Like ‘Meg 2:...
Sequels, and sequels of sequels, have trouble differentiating themselves from their brethren from time to time. But Expendables 4 (or Expend4bles, as this fourth and final entry in the mercenary-based...
View Article‘Expendables 4’ Seeing Franchise Low Opening Between $8M-$10M – Box Office
FRIDAY MIDDAY: Uh, it’s going bound to be another low weekend at the box office, possibly lower than last weekend second worst of 2023 ($62.8M). How is that? Well, Millenium Media and Lionsgate’s...
View ArticleJohn Woo’s First American Pic In 20 Years, ‘Silent Night’, Sets December Release
As there’s positive vibes (knock on wood) coming out the AMPTP and WGA talks at the time of this post, there are interesting maneuvers happening on the theatrical release-date calendar. Specifically,...
View ArticleLionsgate’s Michael Jackson Biopic ‘Michael’ To Be Released Internationally...
Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International announced on Tuesday that Universal will serve as the international distributor for the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, starring the pop superstar’s...
View ArticleStarz Greenlights ‘The Hunting Wives’ Series Based On Book From Rebecca...
Starz has handed an eight-episode series order to thriller drama The Hunting Wives. The project, based on the novel by May Cobb, is executive produced by Cobb, Hightown creator Rebecca Cutter, who...
View Article‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Looking At $28M Opening – Saturday AM Update
SATURDAY AM WRITETHRU, after Friday update at 5:02 PM: Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: Believer is opening to $28M at this point in time. While that’s in the mean range of successful...
View ArticleEbony Media Group To Launch Ebony TV By Lionsgate; FAST Channel To Target...
Ebony Media Group has partnered with Lionsgate to launch Ebony TV by Lionsgate, a new FAST channel geared to Black audiences. Channels targeting Black viewers make up just 2% of all available FAST...
View ArticlePete Davidson Horror Film ‘The Home’ Goes To Lionsgate In U.S. Deal; Miramax...
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has closed a U.S. deal for The Home, the James DeMonaco-directed thriller that stars Pete Davidson. The film was made be Miramax, and it screened for buyers outside competition at...
View ArticleLionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer Sees Pay Rebound In Fiscal 2023
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer’s compensation rebounded to prior levels in fiscal 2023, reaching $21.5 million. In the most recent fiscal year, the exec’s pay totaled $5.6 million, down sharply from...
View Article‘Prosper’: First Look At Stan & Lionsgate’s Australian Megachurch Drama...
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Stan’s upcoming mega-church drama Prosper. The Lionsgate family drama stars Richard Roxburgh (Rake, Elvis, Stan Original Series Bali 2002) as Cal Quinn, the founder...
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