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ComingSoon.net
July 20, 2012
Although Robert Ludlum fans likely have their immediate focus on August 10th’s release of The Bourne Legacy, they should be pleased to hear that another of the author’s popular works is still underway at Lionsgate. Speaking with ComingSoon.net at a press conference this afternoon for the Tony Gilroy film, producer Ben Smith offered an update on The
What happens to a movie studio that lives and dies by one franchise — when that franchise is over? Well, according to Deadline, that studio gets purchased by a larger fish. To be more specific, it sure looks like Lionsgate is *this* close to signing a $ 700,000,000 purchase order for the whole of Summit Entertainment. Here’s what that price tag includes:
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Lionsgate
November 3, 2011
In other release news, the studio has pushed back horror film The Possession from January 6, 2012 to August 31, 2012. This moves the
Lionsgate has picked up Barry Levinson’s found-footage eco-horror flick, The Bay . The news arrived this afternoon in a studio press release:
From the producers of the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise, the film is the next installment in their series following INSIDIOUS, and chronicles an unprecedented biological disaster unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay- an isopod parasite, carrying a horrific untreatable disease, that jumps from fish to human… Continue reading Lionsgate Takes The Bay
Lionsgate has set director Doug Aarniokoski for their upcoming slasher The Nurse 3D , Deadline reports.
The film is said to feature a sexy-but-disturbed nurse who heals the sick by day and seduces and murders the evil at night.
Aarniokoski is best known as a second unit or assistant director, having worked on films like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , The Faculty and Resident Evil: Extinction . He also directed… Continue reading Lionsgate Plans The Nurse 3D
