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UPDATED: Starz CEO Jeff Hirsch said "mid-budget films play better on our service than anything else," as per the exclusive first-window output deal for Lionsgate and Summit films announced this morning. "Movies are important to our service. Big box office movies drive a lot of acquisitions and conversions," he said on…

President Trump dangled an invitation to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to the U.S. at a White House presser today to talk about next week’s Singapore summit. Asked if that means an invitation to the White House or Mar-a-Lago, Trump, standing with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, smiled and answered “maybe we…

President Donald Trump this morning jumped at the chance to pull out of next month’s summit with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un, not by tweet but actual old-school letter [read in its entirety below]. Announcing that the date was off, Trump cited “open hostility” in recent North Korea statements. “Please let this…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is kicking off the Cannes Film Festival with a bevy of new and extended output agreements as it continues to grow its worldwide distribution footprint. The deals include six leading media companies across Europe and Asia for Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment titles. Among the fresh pacts are with…

Hunter Killer, the project that was at one time on the Relativity slate, will open this fall from Lionsgate’s Summit label. The actioner starring Gerard Butler, Darkest Hour Oscar winner Gary Oldman and Michael Nyqvist, will drop into theaters on October 26 in wide release. Directed by Donovan Marsh, Hunter Killer was…

Lionsgate has entered into a co-production and distribution deal for Luc Besson’s action film Anna which will be produced by his company EuropaCorp. The film, written and directed by Besson, starts production November and will be released under Lionsgate's Summit. Anna features Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian…

Expanding on their previous overseas collaborations, Lionsgate is teaming with Buena Vista International for the Russian theatrical release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. Russia was among the top markets for Mockingjay – Part 1 with over $15M in grosses, but the devaluation of the ruble in the past year…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Summit have tapped writer Annie Hendy to adapt YA project Dork Diaries, the bestselling book series from Rachel Renée Russell. The studio picked up rights in March and is in talks with Twilight Saga producer Karen Rosenfelt to produce through her Sunswept Entertainment banner. Dork Diaries…

EXCLUSIVE: German actress Julie Engelbrecht is set to make her American film debut in Lionsgate/Summit’s The Last Witch Hunter opposite Vin Diesel, Michael Caine, Elijah Wood, and Rose Leslie. Diesel leads the fantasy actioner as an immortal witch hunter who teams with his natural enemy, a witch, to stop the covens of…

The Twilight Saga films may be over, but the battle for money from the blockbuster franchise is not. Financier Goldcrest Film Distribution hit Summit today with a multimillion-dollar breach of contract lawsuit (read it here) over the movies. "As a direct result of Defendant’s deceptive accounting practices in which…

Lionsgate‘s Summit has acquired Millennium Films‘ Hercules: The Legend Begins, investing further in Kellan Lutz, who broke out as a vampire in Summit’s Twilight Saga and will co-star in Lionsgate’s The Expendables 3. Lutz takes center stage in the action-adventure as the titular Greek demigod hero. Sold into slavery…

Here’s the first trailer for Summit’s sci-fier Ender’s Game, adapted from the novel by Orson Scott Card. Asa Butterfield stars as a boy recruited to an advanced military school to prepare for an alien space invasion. Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, and Viola Davis also star in the Gavin…