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Lionsgate’s stock is down 5.7% in initial postmarket trading,  to what would be a new 52-week low, after the studio reported fiscal Q3 earnings that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. Part of the problem: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2‘s $650 million global box office was down from Mockingjay 1, despite…

Lionsgate’s franchise finale The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 hit Hall H today in the films’ final appearance at Comic-Con, where the Suzanne Collins books-turned-tentpole blockbusters have been preaching to the choir since the beginning. Among the first things on the docket was the showing of a stirring propaganda…

Francis Lawrence is seeing through Lionsgate‘s The Hunger Games franchise until the end. The director of the first sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, now in production, has now signed on to helm the final two installments of the series, Mockingjay Part 1 and Mockingjay Part 2, which splits the final book in…

There is no deal in place for him to write Lionsgate‘s two-part finale to The Hunger Games, but we’re hearing it’s likely to happen. The Game Change scribe is coming off a big Emmys, where the HBO movie swept the longform categories including winning for his script about Sarah Palin and the 2008 presidential race.  Moc…