Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Funtactix and Lionsgate announced that The Hunger Games Adventures will launch day and date with the highly anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ runaway bestselling novel on March 23rd, 2012. The perfect companion for fans of the franchise, The Hunger Games Adventures enhances the movie experience through an unprecedented journey into the …
Read More »The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Breaks $700 Million
The fourth installment in the blockbuster TWILIGHT SAGA franchise – THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 has grossed an estimated $701.3 million in global box office receipts since the film’s release on November 18, 2011. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 is on its way to becoming the highest …
Read More »‘Twilight’ Studio Bought By Lionsgate
Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment today announced that Lionsgate has completed a transaction to acquire Summit for a combination of cash and stock valued at $412.5 million. The transaction unites two leading studios with powerful brands and complementary assets, solidifying Lionsgate’s position as the world’s largest and most diversified independent entertainment company. By …
Read More »Hunger Games Wraps Production
Lionsgate announced the close of principal photography on the highly anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ runaway bestselling novel The Hunger Games. Lionsgate will release THE HUNGER GAMES on March 23, 2012. The film is the first in a series that Lionsgate is making based on the book trilogy that has become a …
Read More »Sequels and Release Dates Firmed Up
Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man hits theaters until July 3, 2012, and the studio is already mapping out plans for a sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The studio penciled in a release date for the second film in the rebooted franchise, putting a marker down on May 2, 2014. Lionsgate has claimed the …
Read More »Schwarzenegger Returns To Films
He said he’d be back. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to films in The Last Stand, which the company is developing as a starring vehicle for the former California Governor. The announcement was made by the President of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group Joe Drake, and President of Production Michael Paseornek. Korean action-suspense master Kim Jee-Woon …
Read More »‘Saw 3D’ Cuts To Top of the Box Office
Horror fans flocked to Lionsgate’s seventh and final chapter in its lucrative slasher franchise as 3D enthusiasm reversed flagging franchise interest for a full-blooded bow estimated at $24.2 million. Saw 3D boasted more than 2,100 3D locations among 2,808 total engagements, with 3D venues contributing 92% of its weekend grosses. The …
Read More »Lionsgate Snags Puppet Noir Happytime Murders
For those of us out there who loved the short lived series Greg the Bunny, there seems to be movement on what can only be described as a “puppet noir” film, Happytime Murders. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog, the project, which has been at the Jim Henson …
Read More »Spike Nabs The Expendables
Fresh off its number one debut at the North American box office with an opening weekend gross of $34.8 million, Lionsgate has licensed its hard-hitting action thriller The Expendables to Spike TV for its first free television window, the two companies announced. The film will premiere on Spike TV in April …
Read More »Old Action Heroes Never Die
With a combination of nostalgia and mind-blowing action, “The Expendables” easily topped the weekend boxoffice with an estimated $35 million. The actioner outpaced an impressive $23.7 million bow by Sony’s female-targeted Julia Roberts starrer “Eat Pray Love” in second place, while Universal’s geek-seeking “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” debuted with a …
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