Lionsgate films

New York Glams Up in 'W' Premiere

Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

On Tuesday, October 14, Lionsgate Films present their forthcoming biopic about U.S. President George W . Bush from filmmaker Oliver Stone.

Movie studios finance theaters’ shift to digital

The Los Angeles Business (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008

Digital Cinema Implementation Partners LLC has signed agreements with Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Lionsgate Films that will lead to a rollout of digital projection systems at nearly 20,000 movie theater screens in North America.

Agreement with movie studios finances theaters’ shift to digital

The Kansas City Business Journal (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008

Digital Cinema Implementation Partners LLC has signed agreements with Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Lionsgate Films that will lead to a rollout of digital projection systems at nearly 20,000 movie theater screens in North America.

DCIP Announces Agreement With Five Studios for Digital Cinema Upgrades

The IESB (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008

Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Lionsgate Films to provide digital content through DCIP's deployment of digital projection systems to theatre locations across North America.

'My Best Friend's Girl' Receives Two Brand New Clips and a Featurette

Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008

Lionsgate Films have provided movie lovers with snippets as well as behind-the-scene footage from their forthcoming romcom starring Dane Cook , Kate Hudson and Jason Biggs .

Lionsgate Films Roars Into Mobile Content

BRANDING UNBOUND (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008

Lionsgate Films hopes to crash the gates of mobile entertainment. The Hollywood studio has entered a mobile pact with content player Zed to co-develop projects designed for mobile phones, Variety is reporting. The projects is said to encompass wallpapers, ringtones,...

Zed Teams With Lionsgate To Co-Develop Content For Major Studio

Moco News (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008

Zed is definitely not dead. The mobile content company announced a deal with Lionsgate to co-develop a suite of mobile entertainment projects based on Lionsgate films, TV programs, music and original content for mobile. The deal also calls for ringtones, wallpapers, games and interactive communities. Lionsgate has a catalog of around 12,000 film and TV titles including the Saw franchise, Dirty Dancing...

Former Lionsgate Exec Launches 'A Bigger Boat'

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008

Under the direction of exec Joe Drake, Lionsgate Films has pretty much walked away from the type of movies that made its name -- as exemplified by their dumping of the Clive Barker adapatation Midnight Meat Train , and sending an audience friendly movie like Dance of the Dead (that most of us at Cinematical just happen to love ) straight to DVD. Now Peter Block , the company's former head of acquisitions...

TIFF Interview: Bill Maher of 'Religulous'

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008

Filed under: Comedy , Documentary , Lionsgate Films , Podcasts , Celebrities and Controversy , Politics , Interviews , Toronto International Film Festival Even after debuting Religulous , his new docu-comedy about faith in the modern world directed by Larry Charles ( Borat ), Bill Maher still has plenty of questions of his own: "I was saying to Larry in the car on the way over here: I suddenly realized...

TIFF Review: Religulous

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008

Filed under: Comedy , Documentary , Lionsgate Films , Theatrical Reviews , Celebrities and Controversy , Politics , Toronto International Film Festival , Cinematical Indie I contend we are both atheists; I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours . -- Stephen F. Roberts In Religulous , stand-up...

'Disaster Movie': The 'Dark Knight' of Bad Movies

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008

Filed under: Comedy , New Releases , Lionsgate Films , Fandom You may recall that on the very weekend of its theatrical release, The Dark Knight rocketed to the top of the Internet Movie Database's user-voted Top 250 movies, with an average rating of 9.5 out of 10 after more than 47,000 votes. Observers marveled at how quickly this happened, noting that the previous #1 film, The Godfather , had held...

The Lowdown on 'The Descent 2'

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Filed under: Horror , Lionsgate Films , Movie Marketing , Remakes and Sequels Usually when an original creator walks away from a sequel, it is a good sign that maybe a sequel isn't the best idea to begin with. Well, that's exactly what happened with the follow-up to Neil Marshall 's 2005 horror-hit, The Descent . But it is not all bad news because Shock Till You Drop got the chance for a set-visit...

Clive Barker Gets Harsh on Lionsgate Boss

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008

Filed under: Horror , Lionsgate Films , Fandom , Movie Marketing I'm glad to have seen The Midnight Meat Train in a theater earlier this month , even if it was a run-down dollar theater. But Lionsgate certainly made it difficult for horror fans, booking the film into only about 100 locations and carefully avoiding theaters anywhere near the city centers of New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San...

Third 'Transporter' Trailer Totally Teases

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008

Filed under: Action , Thrillers , Lionsgate Films , Remakes and Sequels , Trailers and Clips "Rules Remain The Same, Except Some Changes." I recall first seeing that tagline attached to a billboard touting The Transporter 3 at Cannes last May (whether or not I actually saw the picture at JoBlo.com then, all that matters is they still have it now) and dismissed it as a clumsy phrase with something...

Bill Maher's 'Religulous' Quietly Opens in NY, LA

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008

Filed under: Documentary , Lionsgate Films , Toronto International Film Festival As was the case with HBO's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired , Lionsgate has very discreetly opened Bill Maher's Religulous in two theaters -- one in New York, the other in Los Angeles -- in an qualifying run for next year's Academy Awards. As pointed out by Jeff Wells over at Hollywood Elsewhere , the Academy's Rule...

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