Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Lionsgate’s global juggernaut The Hunger Games franchise continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 arriving on Digital HDFebruary 17 and on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD (plus Digital) and On Demand Friday, March 6, the Company announced today. Mockingjay – Part 1 became the highest-grossing …
Read More »Mockingjay Tops Turkey Weekend
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 was the easy victor at the otherwise soft Thanksgiving box office, earning $82.7 million to score the third-best gross of all time for the five-day holiday, not accounting for inflation. The penultimate installment in the YA film franchise has now earned $225.7 million in …
Read More »Mockingjay Wins Box Office Despite Franchise Low
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 blasted past Transformers: Age of Extinction to post the top opening of the year domestically, but trailed the first two installments in the YA franchise by a hefty margin. Mockingjay grossed $123 million from 4,151 locations, down 22 percent from the $158.1 million debut of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire a year …
Read More »The Divergent Series: Insurgent To Be Released In 3D
The Divergent Series: Insurgent, the second installment of itsDivergent franchise, will be released in both 3D and 2D. The film will be released worldwide on March 20, 2015 through Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment label. The Company will also today roll out eight new interactive 3D character posters, with one new poster debuting each hour. …
Read More »‘Divergent’ Makes Home Entertainment Debut
Lionsgate will release the electrifying first installment of the blockbuster action adventure franchise Divergent on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD (plus Digital), Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View on August 5, the Company announced today. The film will be available on Digital HD two weeks early onJuly 22. Based on Veronica …
Read More »Power Rangers Return To The Big Screen
Lionsgate and Saban are partnering to develop and produce an original live action feature film based on the iconic Power Rangers property, it was announced today by creator of Power Rangers Haim Saban and Lionsgate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer. The announcement marks another step in Lionsgate’s continued commitment to build a broad portfolio of …
Read More »‘Divergent’ Takes Top Spot At Box Office
Launching a new franchise for Summit and parent company Lionsgate, the dystopian sci-fi film “Divergent” scored $56 million at the North American box office, benefitting from good word of mouth among moviegoers, who gave it an A CinemaScore despite mostly withering reviews. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of …
Read More »Iron Man 3 Continues To Dominate Box Office
Despite a stronger than expected showing in it’s debut weekend, “Gatsby” failed to overtake the armored avenger. “Iron Man 3” took in $72.5 million in its second weekend for a domestic cume of $284.9 million. Overseas, the Disney and Marvel Studios goliath grossed $89.3 million for an international total of …
Read More »Texas Chainsaw Cuts Its Way To The Top Of The Box Office
Lionsgate’s Texas Chainsaw 3D exceeded expectations in its debut, grossing $23 million to win the crowded domestic box-office race. The seventh installment in the slasher franchise scored one of the better openings for the first full weekend in January, a favorite landing place for horror. On the same weekend last year, The Devil …
Read More »Tonner Doll Extends Twilight License
Tonner Doll Company has extended its license with Summit Entertainment for The Twilight Saga in order to create figures from the most recent installment of the movie series, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.” Tonner has produced 2 more dolls to complete their Twilight Saga Collection: Forever Edward …
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