After reporting mixed results for its fiscal third quarter, Lionsgate executives offered Wall Street analysts an update on Starz as the premium network’s longtime chief, Chris Albrecht, gets set to exit the company in the coming weeks. Albrecht did not appear on today’s conference call with analysts, but earned a…

EXCLUSIVE: Amid the shifting landscape of the international business comes a big change at Lionsgate. Veteran international exec and Motion Picture Group Co-Chairman Patrick Wachsberger is exiting the company as he sets his sights on building a new business. Wachsberger is pleased to be moving on to another adventure…

Sam Raimi is circling the director’s chair for the upcoming film adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle at Lionsgate. Based on the novels by Pat Rothfuss, Raimi will work with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is set to serve as creative producer of the project Miranda, the mastermind behind the Broadway smash Hamilton will…

Showtime is developing a television series adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle, based on the bestselling Patrick Rothfuss book series produced by Lionsgate, with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing. John Rogers (Leverage, The Player) serves as showrunner and Miranda also will compose music for the series, which…

The Librarians creator John Rogers is set to write the pilot and executive produce Lionsgate’s TV adaptation of the fantasy franchise The Kingkiller Chronicle, working alongside previously announced franchise creative producer and musical mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda, book trilogy author Pat Rothfuss and producer…

Lionsgate said today that Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is partnering with The Kingkiller Chronicle book trilogy author Pat Rothfuss to serve as creative producer and musical mastermind of feature film and TV series adaptations of the fantasy franchise, with an option to be involved in future stage productions…