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SANTA MONICA, Calif. and VANCOUVER, B.C. — December 16, 2010 — Lionsgate announced today that IVS Associates, Inc., the independent Inspector of Elections, has released its preliminary report for Lionsgate's 2010 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on December 14, 2010. Based on the preliminary tabulation by…

UPDATE 1:30 PM: Carl Icahn released the following reaction to Lionsgate shareholders today re-electing current Lionsgate management’s board of directors and not his own proposed 5 directors. from the sound of it, Icahn has zero intention of giving up: We are disappointed that shareholder democracy has failed – or…

Carl C. Icahn announced today that the offer by his affiliated entities to purchase any and all of the outstanding common shares of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. for $7.50 per share in cash has expired. The offer had been conditioned upon the New York State Supreme Court granting, by 11:59 p.m., Vancouver time, on…

Though Carl Icahn’s attempt to take control of Lionsgate was dealt a setback recently by a Supreme Court judge in British Columbia who dismissed Icahn’s lawsuit to stop a Lionsgate de-leveraging move that pushed his 38% stake down to 33.5%, Icahn is still trying. He’s extended his $7.50 per share offer, which had…

No surprise. Lionsgate announced today its Board of Directors who were present voted unanimously reject Carl Icahn’s $6.50 a share tender offer for all outstanding common stock in the film/TV studio.

Ceasefire Ends; Lionsgate Ponders Icahn’s $6.50 A Share Bid So now Carl Icahn owns only 33.5% of the film and TV studio, and not the 37.9% he had as of yesterday. Nasty, nasty, nasty. Though it is interesting to see these two camps whack at each other as Icahn tries for a hostile takeover. Here’s how Lionsgate…

UPDATED: What came out of the 10-day cease fire between Carl Icahn and Lionsgate management? An offer by Icahn to buy the company for $6.50 a share. Considering that Icahn acquired over 30% of the company by offering $7 per share — Lionsgate management called that sum inadequate and urged shareholders to reject it…

BREAKING NEWS! … UPDATE: Today, Lionsgate Entertainment filed Form 8-K paperwork with the SEC that it has entered into a “Material Definitive Agreement” with Carl Icahn agreeing “to work together on certain acquisition opportunities beginning on July 9, 2010 and ending on July 19, 2010”. Icahn has been leading a…

Welcome to the real-life game of Survivor: Wall Street. Lionsgate management tonight is trying to outwit, outplay, and outlast Carl Icahn before he effects a hostile takeover of the movie/TV studio for his son Brett. Lionsgate tonight announced it’s putting into place a “Shareholder Rights Plan” — i.e. a poison pill…

The studio sees the glass as half full, putting out a statement that “66% of Lionsgate stockholders support management and rejected Carl Icahn’s $7-a-share tender offer. But after that offer expired last night, Carl Icahn now owns 33.9% of the Santa Monica movie and television studio which he’s been attempting to…

Carl Icahn surprised almost everybody when he completed his $7 per share tender offer deadline with control of 32% of Lionsgate, shares.  Hollywood immediately feared the indie studio would be unable to continue business as usual, because Lionsgate’s $340 million credit facility with JP Morgan Chase Bank contained a…