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*If Samuel L. Jackson could win an award that currently doesn’t exist, he’d probably get the man who gets the most work in film award. The dynamic actor is back at it again, blazing a trail of diverse success. His new indie drama, “Reasonable Doubt” was recently picked up by Lionsgate and will be sold [...]
*Los Angeles, CA. – Josiah Films LLC, in association with Rhythm Pictures LLC present “House Arrest,” an Andrea Weathersby film starring Stacey Dash and The Game. The world premiere happens this Valentine’s Day weekend, Saturday, February 16th at 12:00 noon and Sunday, February 17th at 2:30 p. m. Fans are invited to see Stacey Dash [...]
*Martin Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer are considering pairing up to star in and produce a multi-camera comedy together for Lionsgate TV and its subsidiary Debmar-Mercury, reports Deadline.com. The idea reportedly started with a meeting right before Thanksgiving between Grammer, Lawrence and Lionsgate where the two actors showed great chemistry. But Grammer’s financial settlement with recently [...]
*Lionsgate announced that production on the comedy “Tyler Perry’s Single Mom’s Club” began Monday, (Nov. 26) at the filmmaker’s studio in Atlanta. The film follows a group of single mothers from different walks of life who are brought together by an incident at their children’s school. As a result, they create a support group that [...]
*Lionsgate has announced the release dates for the next two Tyler Perry films. “Tyler Perry’s Single Moms Club” is scheduled to open May 9, 2014 and an untitled Madea Christmas film will bow Dec. 13, 2013, reports Deadline. Both films will be written and directed by Perry via his Tyler Perry Studios. “Moms Club” is [...]
*On the day of President Obama’s second debate and three weeks before the election, Lionsgate has released “2016: Obama’s America,” the documentary based on conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza’s book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The film, first released in a single theater on July 13, went on to become the [...]
*Indie studio Lionsgate has announced a new partnership with film and TV comedy veteran Jeff Clanagan and his CodeBlack Enterprises to penetrate the urban market with digital content. Clanagan will base his new company at Lionsgate so the indie studio can mine his expertise in movies, TV, music and other content ripe for digital platforms, [...]
*Summit Entertainment announced today that it will premiere the Tyler Perry-led “Alex Cross” wide on October 26, 2012, reports Deadline.com. The film will compete on that date with Dimension’s “Halloween 3D” and Fox’s surfing pic “Of Men And Mavericks.” The adaptation of the James Patterson novel stars Perry as the detective/psychologist protagonist who meets his [...]
*Nick Cannon is bouncing back from his recent health scare by stepping behind the camera to direct his first feature film. In addition to hosting “America’s Got Talent” and his radio show “Rollin’ With Nick Cannon,” Mariah Carey’s husband begin working on a movie project with Lionsgate in the spring that he described as “today’s [...]
*The film responsible for Halle Berry’s current romantic relationship will actually see the light of day. U.S. rights to “Dark Tide,” where Berry met her beau Olivier Martinez, has been picked up by Wrekin Hill Entertainment and Row I Productions, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lionsgate, which has a deal with Wrekin Hill, will launch [...]
*The budding comedy film series, “Harold & Kumar” might be getting picked up by Comedy Central and/or MTV pretty soon as an animated series. Just after releasing the latest installment, “A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas,” several cable networks are looking to pick up the small screen project, says Lionsgate TV. Once the series takes [...]
*Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has signed on to star in “The Pursuit” for Emmett/Furla Films and Cheetah Vision Films, which 50 runs with producer Randall Emmett, and director Jessy Terrero, who just signed a three-picture directing deal with the production team. According to the producers, “The Pursuit,” written by Matt Johnson, follows “a cop and [...]
*Lionsgate is heading into production on its newest Tyler Perry project, “The Marriage Counselor.” The studio has set a tentative date of Oct. 25 for the start of production on what would be Perry’s 13th film with the company. Counselor is adapted from Perry’s tenth play, which began touring in 2008. It explores the deteriorating [...]
*Paramount Pictures has rescheduled the Eddie Murphy film “A Thousand Words,” and will release it March 23, 2012, instead of January 13, 2012. The switch puts “A Thousand Words” head-to-head with Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games,” according to the AP. It also puts the movie’s release date just less than one month after the Academy Awards, [...]
*Lionsgate is being sued for copyright infringement over a piece of music used in the documentary “More Than A Game,” which chronicles basketball superstar LeBron James’ rise during his high school days in Ohio. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Georgia federal court comes from Mason Hall, a songwriter who says he authored a copyrighted composition [...]
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