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Nicolas Cage’s ‘The Surfer’ Lands at Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions
Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions are looking to catch a box office wave after picking up the North American rights to The Surfer, the psychological thriller from director Lorcan Finnegan that stars Nicolas Cage as a beach bum on the edge of sanity. With a 2025 theatrical release set, the fourth feature from the Vivarium director and […]
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Lionsgate Nabs ‘Power Ballad’ Musical Comedy Starring Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas
Lionsgate has picked up the North American, UK and Ireland rights to John Carney’s musical comedy Power Ballad, which stars Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd. The project, which was recently shot in Dublin, follows Rudd as a wedding singer and Jonas as a flagging pop star who come together to write a song to comedic […]
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‘The Chosen’ Creator’s Holiday Movie ‘Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ Debuts First Trailer
Judy Greer is in over her head as the director of her’s church annual Christmas event in the trailer for The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Dallas Jenkins, who created the biblical series The Chosen, directed the Lionsgate holiday film that hits theaters Nov. 8. Pete Holmes, Molly Belle Wright and Lauren Graham also star in […]
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Snoop Dogg-Produced ‘1992,’ Starring Tyrese Gibson, Lands Summer Release
Lionsgate is going back to the early 1990s this summer, with help from Tyrese Gibson and Snoop Dogg. The company announced Monday that it will release director Ariel Vromen’s crime thriller 1992 in theaters Aug. 30. Snoop Dogg has boarded the feature as executive producer through his Death Row Pictures production company, with Gibson (known […]
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Chad Stahelski’s 87Eleven to Remake Bollywood Action Thriller ‘Kill’ for Lionsgate
John Wick filmmaker Chad Stahelski is set to produce an English-language remake of the action thriller Kill for Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat wrote and directed the 2023 Indian Hindi-language film. The original Kill movie took place during a train trip to New Delhi, and saw a pair of commandos battle an army of […]
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Alec Baldwin Trains Novice With a Dark Past in ‘Clear Cut’ Trailer
Alec Baldwin and Stephen Dorff get caught up in the dangerous world of cutting timber in the Pacific Northwest in the trailer for Clear Cut. Lionsgate releases director Brian Skiba’s thriller feature theatrically and via digital and on-demand on July 19. Clive Standen, Lucy Martin, Jesse Metcalfe and Tom Welling also star in the movie […]
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Mark Wahlberg Plays Psychotic Mob Hitman in Mel Gibson’s ‘Flight Risk’ Trailer
Mark Wahlberg becomes a wilderness pilot-turned-psychotic hitman in the official trailer for Mel Gibson’s latest directorial effort, Flight Risk, which dropped on Thursday. With an echo of Con Air, Wahlberg in the role of Daryl is at the controls of a plane transporting air marshal Madolyn, played by Michelle Dockery, and a fugitive (Topher Grace) […]
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Lionsgate Inks FAST Channel Licensing Deal With DirecTV
DirecTV has struck a licensing deal with Lionsgate that will make five streaming channels available to the platform’s streaming and satellite customers using the DirecTV app. The first Lionsgate channels to reach DirecTV subscribers are MovieSphere for premium movies, HerSphere with female-driven stories, Ebony TV and the single-series comedy channels for Are We There Yet? […]
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Steven Mnuchin Keeps Buying Lionsgate Stock, Growing Stake
Steven Mnuchin keeps buying Lionsgate. The former banker and Treasury Secretary under President Trump has in the last few weeks acquired another $10 million or so in shares of entertainment company, bringing his stake to 11 percent. According to a securities filing, Mnuchin’s Liberty 77 Capital Partners acquired the shares between June 6 and June […]
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Lionsgate Promotes Chase Brisbin to Global FAST Channels Head
Lionsgate has upped Chase Brisbin to executive vp, international SVOD sales and head of global channels, charged with overseeing the studio’s growing FAST (free, ad-supported streaming TV) channels business. The promotion, announced by Lionsgate president of worldwide television distribution Jim Packer, will see Brisbin manage Lionsgate’s stable of over two dozen FAST channels worldwide. That […]
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‘Hunger Games’ Movie Based on New Suzanne Collins Novel in the Works at Lionsgate
Lionsgate has unveiled plans for a new Hunger Games movie, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, based on franchise writer Suzanne Collins’ just-announced new novel. The screen adaptation, unveiled on Thursday by Adam Fogelson, chair of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, has Francis Lawrence in talks to direct the adaptation for Nina Jacobson and […]
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Michael Jackson Biopic Will “Be the Biggest Movie We’ve Ever Had,” Lionsgate Exec Says
Jim Packer, president of worldwide television distribution at Lionsgate, is betting the upcoming spin off of his Hollywood studio’s film and TV production and library business will become a franchise machine. “It’s clear it’s going to be an IP-focused company. It’s going to produce, distribute, film and TV,” Packer told the Gabelli Media & Entertainment Symposium […]
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