Are you already as tired of Mattel’s Barbie spinoffs as I am? Then I have some bad news for you: Variety reports that Lionsgate purchased Entertainment One’s film and TV assets from Hasbro for around $500 million. This means movies based on various Hasbro products and games are coming to theater...
Read MoreWhen a mission is too impossible for stunts alone, you call in The Expendables! Lionsgate has released a trailer for Expendables 4, which is officially titled Expend4bles because movies are named by twelve-year-olds now (See the Fast and Furious series and its inexplicable title scheme). Expend4bles...
Read MoreLionsgate must have called in a marker. During a recent earnings call, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group president Joe Drake talked about the John Wick franchise, and in addition to discussing the future spinoffs and prequels (ugh) in various stages of development, he revealed something big: “What is...
Read MoreLionsgate is taking it to the streets. Deadline exclusively reports that the film studio has acquired the film rights to Streets of Rage, the side-scrolling action video game series. Derek Kolstad, who wrote or co-wrote the first three John Wick movies and Nobody (and… ugh… two episodes of The F...
Read MoreYesterday, according to an exclusive from The Hollywood Reporter, Viola Davis was cast in the Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Davis will play Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the film’s antagonist and head gamemaker. Today, Vanity Fair published a first look at Rachel Zegler as Lucy...
Read MoreThe Quick Stop is open for business again. Earlier today, Lionsgate and Kevin Smith unveiled the trailer for Clerks III, the latest in Smith’s View Askewniverse series. Clerks III catches up with Dante Hicks and Randal Graves, who, when last we saw them, bought their old places of employment, the ...
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