The hype around the new Lionsgate movie Kick-Ass is the kind of thing studios dream about.
The Lionsgate movie is getting middling reviews, scoring a 55 out of 100 on Metacritic, a site that aggregates reviews from around the country.
Gary Ross, the director of the wildly successful Lionsgate movie, The Hunger Games, has announced that he will not be directing the sequel, Catching Fire.
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But if you can't make it to Lionsgate 's new movie, fear not: You can catch Simpson's song stylings on her new album, A Public Affair.
This week, the company touted back to back new multi-year deals with two movie studios, Lionsgate UK and Miramax.
Instead of showing the movie to test audiences and then tweaking any problems, Lionsgate has kept the film under wraps in the hopes of keeping information about the movie from ending up on the Internet.
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Then Lionsgate screened the film at last month's movie theater trade show ShoWest and theater owners went wild.
Epix, the new movie cable channel from Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate, scored a second pickup today when Cox Communications announced it will carry the channel starting in April.
He stated that the independent studio has reached digital delivery deals with CinemaNow, Movielink and iTunes, and Lionsgate president Steve Beeks followed that up by stating that iTunes movie downloads should be launched before the end of the year.
Yet the movie is now at the center of a well-documented legal battle between Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company.
With the mind-blowing horror movie The Cabin in the Woods now on Blu-ray and DVD from Lionsgate Home Entertainment, new details are emerging about the making of the film.
Lionsgate released its first full teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire last night during the MTV Movie Awards and they seem to be repeating themselves in a positive fashion.
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