“The Hunger Games” franchise director Francis Lawrence has signed a first-look producing deal with Lionsgate through his company About:Blank. Lawrence also closed a deal to return to direct and produce the next film in the “Hunger Games” franchise, “Sunrise on the Reaping.” The filmmaker is prepping work on that project, which is based on a […]

Lionsgate has renewed a three-year, first-look deal with Kingdom Story Company. The announcement extends the partnership to 10 years and follows the theatrical release of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” which opened to $11 million over the weekend. Already this year, Lionsgate and Kingdom have collaborated on the faith-based “Ordinary Angels” starring Hilary Swank and […]

“Borderlands,” “The Crow,” and other film flops deflated Lionsgate’s quarterly earnings, leading the movie and TV studio to report a loss of $163.3 million. It was a rough stretch that Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer attributed to “a transitional, disrupted and difficult year for our industry,” one that saw the studio dealing with the aftershocks from […]

The third film in the cult “Orphan” horror franchise has been officially green lit, with Isabelle Fuhrman — recently seen in Kevin Costner’s “Horizon” — returning to play her iconic role of Esther and “Orphan: First Kill’s” writer David Coggeshall (“The Family Plan”) and director William Brent Bell (“The Boy” franchise) also back behind the camera. […]