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...True Brit Entertainment has been founded by Zygi Kamasa, the former chief executive at Lionsgate UK and Europe, where he helped raise financing for more than 50 British films such as Brooklyn and Bend It...
...Lionsgate Studios will house the television studio and motion picture divisions of the group, which is behind franchises such as John Wick as well as Oscar-winning film La La Land....
...Streaming platform Starz will be remain under Lionsgate’s ownership....
...Clip from Lionsgate Television For further reading: WeightWatchers faces an era when weight loss comes in a syringe Behold the Ozempic effect on business The race to develop the next generation of weight-loss...
...All too often, Sunak is a Lionsgate Plus politician: what he does makes sense as part of a contest with his opposite number, but as an overall strategy it has a hole in it....
...bid for Australian energy giant rebuffed by largest shareholder (FT) Lloyds rebuffs Barclay family’s latest £1bn attempt to regain Telegraph (FT) Adani Enterprises’ coal trading margins double (FT) Ex-Lionsgate...
...Clips courtesy of Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Vestron Pictures / Lionsgate Entertainment. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Peltz has tried to dispel any suggestions that his experience is limited to consumer goods businesses, citing investments in companies such as Lionsgate and MSG Sports, in which he holds a personal stake...
...Peltz has rejected the idea that he is just a consumer goods guy, pointing to previous investments in Lionsgate, Time Warner and Comcast, though he was not a board director at any of these companies....
...On Lionsgate Plus in the UK and HBO Max in the US The Rehearsal What exactly was The Rehearsal? An absurdist comedy? A feverish reality show? A revealing anthropological study?...
...In recent months it has also been weighing a bid for US premium TV channel Starz, which is owned by Lionsgate....
...The production’s fate changed when Netflix agreed to pick it up in 2019 from Lionsgate, where it had stalled, and once Kunis agreed to star, the project gained momentum....
...Blackstone believes streaming-focused companies have cost advantages over legacy production companies such as Lionsgate....
...Independent movie studio Lionsgate, which has a $3.5bn equity value, has franchises such as Twilight along with small streaming service Starz....
...MGM — along with Lionsgate — is one of the few large standalone studios left. Disney acquired 21st Century Fox. Paramount is owned by ViacomCBS and Universal Pictures is controlled by Comcast....
...Lionsgate, which is behind franchises such as The Hunger Games, has followed US rivals in opening an office in India....
...classic British indie film, you could be happy with 10 or 20 per cent of the budget coming from international presales and it used to be as high as 30 to 50 per cent,” said Zygi Kamasa, chief executive of Lionsgate...
...Over the past 18-months, suitors have included the UK broadcaster ITV, Sony, Lionsgate RTL’s FremantleMedia and Endeavour, the Hollywood talent agency and media group....
.... ★★★★★ The Happy Prince (Lionsgate) treats Oscar Wilde with the reverence the great man deserves — ie not too much....
...Directed by Dominic Cooke, 2017 Lionsgate Expanded from his own 2007 novella, this Ian McEwan-scripted period drama transforms an introspective story of love lost into a more expansive study of obsessive...
...Franks rose from humble origins to a rapid fortune, working in banking, then founding LoveFilm, the DVD rental company sold to Amazon for £200m in 2011, and Redbus Film Distribution, sold to US media group Lionsgate...
...Media groups such as Netflix, Lionsgate or even Walt Disney have long been speculated as potential targets for Apple....
...Directed by Saul Dibb, 2017 Lionsgate When eager new recruit Lt Raleigh (Asa Butterfield) joins C Company in the trenches during the bloody Spring Offensive of 1918, he is the only one who doesn’t realise...
...David Batty, 2017 Lionsgate In the 1960s, “for the first time in history”, working-class kids with big ideas and bigger mouths converged on London, determined to break with the stuffy ways of parents and...
...Lionsgate, the producer of Mad Men, Walking Dead and other hits might be another. Or New Fox could develop its own production entity....
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