Those brains are now being put to use on The Hunger Games franchise which Lionsgate produces.
In fact, the sooner that Lionsgate hires a director and goes into pre-production, the better.
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The only other new release was the much-delayed and somewhat dumped Lionsgate release The Big Wedding.
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The hype around the new Lionsgate movie Kick-Ass is the kind of thing studios dream about.
Lionsgate says it plans to release the first film, The Hunger Games, in March of 2012.
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The show, produced by Lionsgate Entertainment, earned critical praise from the start, and the encomia haven't abated.
But then Lionsgate made a last ditch effort to revive its offer to merge with the company.
Then Lionsgate screened the film at last month's movie theater trade show ShoWest and theater owners went wild.
The website is 42% owned by Lionsgate and is aimed at young men.
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This week, the company touted back to back new multi-year deals with two movie studios, Lionsgate UK and Miramax.
Yet the movie is now at the center of a well-documented legal battle between Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company.
Lionsgate has shaken off an activist investor, Carl Icahn, who had argued it should get out of film production.
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Lionsgate (along with investor Carl Icahn) is now making another play for the studio despite bankruptcy plans.
Under the Lionsgate plan the studio would own 45% of the combined company while creditors would own the remaining 55%.
One of them, LionsGate Entertainment, has made some 20 horror movies since 2000, including the grisly Hostel and Saw series.
Entertainment company Lionsgate ( LGF) has successfully fended off efforts by legendary activist investor Carl Icahn to control the company.
Under the Lionsgate scenario, the studio would own 45% of the combined company while creditors would own the remaining 55%.
Showtime and "Weeds''" studio Lionsgate Television Group have full faith that Kohan will deliver a stellar final batch of episodes.
In September, the company signed a deal with Epix cable network to carry films from Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate.
The greatest confirmation yet just came from the loose lips of Lionsgate's CEO, Jon Feltheimer, during a financial earnings conference call.
The film is from Summit Entertainment which is now part of Lionsgate.
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With its latest promotion for the new film The Last Exorcism, Lionsgate has what studio marketing departments dream about: a viral video hit.
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Last year MGM, Paramount and Lionsgate failed to reach an agreement with Showtime for the pay channel to continue licensing the studios' movies.
The venture will showcase dozens of recent releases from Paramount, Paramount Vantage, MGM, United Artists and Lionsgate, along with thousands of classic films.
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Lionsgate filmed The Hunger Games in North Carolina last year and its sequel, Catching Fire, will begin filming late this summer in the state.
The Lionsgate movie is getting middling reviews, scoring a 55 out of 100 on Metacritic, a site that aggregates reviews from around the country.
And Carl Icahn said on Wednesday that he plans to sell his stake in Lionsgate ( LGF) after he reached an agreement with the company.
Financial details of the arrangements were not released, but the Lionsgate UK deal is for exclusive streaming rights to first-run feature films from the studio.
We might be about to see the answer to that question, when The Hunger Games opens this weekend, brought to us by Lionsgate.
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