Lionsgate Studios
American film and television production company
Follow Lionsgate Studios on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| January 2025 | Lionsgate Studios announced its full separation from Starz. |
| 2024 | Lionsgate Studios spun off its television and film business, and became the new owner of Lionsgate Films. |
| 2024 | Lionsgate optioned an Air Mail story titled 'The Grift, the Prince, and the Twist' written by Hannah Ghorashi. |
| November 28 2024 | Lionsgate rebranded to Starz Entertainment to differentiate itself from Lionsgate Studios. |
| June 24 2024 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment entered into a distribution deal with Studio Distribution Services to handle physical distribution of titles from multiple studios including Lionsgate. |
| June 17 2024 | Lionsgate announced it will distribute Francis Ford Coppola's $120 million sci-fi epic Megalopolis in North America, with a planned release date of September 27, 2024, after other distribution companies declined due to the film's unconventional storytelling. |
| May 14 2024 | Lionsgate Studios launched and began trading on Nasdaq under the stock symbol LION, with Lionsgate retaining approximately 87% ownership. |
| May 14 2024 | Lionsgate Studios officially launches and begins trading on Nasdaq under the stock symbol LION, with Lionsgate retaining approximately 87% ownership. |
| May 14 2024 | Lionsgate Studios Corp. was officially formed through a spin-off of Lionsgate's film and television businesses, establishing itself as a separate entity with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia and Santa Monica, California. |
| May 14 2024 | Lionsgate Studios Corp. is officially formed through a spin-off of Lionsgate's film and television businesses, establishing a new independent entity with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia and Santa Monica, California. |
| May 7 2024 | Lionsgate Studios Corporation is formed through a merger with Screaming Eagle Corporation, with the transaction valuing the new entity at $4.6 billion. |
| May 7 2024 | Lionsgate completed the merger of its Studios division with Screaming Eagle Corp., valuing Lionsgate Studios at $4.6 billion. |
| May 7 2024 | Lionsgate's Studios division merged with Screaming Eagle Corp., creating a separate publicly traded company valued at $4.6 billion. |
| May 7 2024 | Lionsgate closed the deal to split its Studios division, merging with Screaming Eagle Corporation to form Lionsgate Studios Corporation, with a transaction value of $4.6 billion. |
| January 14 2024 | Lionsgate created Lionsgate Alternative Television by folding eOne's television assets into Lionsgate Television, focusing on producing and distributing unscripted television shows. |
| 2023 | Starz Entertainment was acquired by Entertainment One, marking a significant transition in the company's ownership and strategic direction. |
| 2023 | Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Gray Television formed Free TV Networks. |
| 2023 | Significant releases include John Wick: Chapter 4 and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, continuing successful franchises |
| December 2023 | Lionsgate revealed plans to split its film and television assets from Starz, with the Studios division set to merge with Screaming Eagle Corp. |
| December 27 2023 | Lionsgate completed the acquisition of Entertainment One, with plans to rebrand eOne as 'Lionsgate Canada' the following year. |
| December 27 2023 | Lionsgate completed the acquisition of Entertainment One from Hasbro, setting the stage for a strategic reorganization of its film and television assets. |
| August 2023 | Lionsgate announced its acquisition of Entertainment One's motion picture and television assets from Hasbro for $500 million, with additional $375 million in cash and $125 million in production financing loans. |
| January 2023 | Lionsgate entered a movie distribution deal with Cineplex Pictures for releasing selected Lionsgate titles in Canada. |
| 2022 | Adam Fogelson joins the Motion Picture Group as vice chair, reporting to Joe Drake. |
| 2022 | Lionsgate begins distributing the Detective Knight film series |
| 2022 | Newark, New Jersey announced plans for Lionsgate Newark Studios, a 15-acre film and television production studio to open in 2024 on the former Seth Boyden housing projects site. |
| July 2021 | Lionsgate purchased an 18.9 percent equity stake in Spyglass Media Group and acquired The Weinstein Company's catalogue. |
| June 30 2021 | Lionsgate's North American distribution deal with 20th Century Home Entertainment expired and was taken over by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. |
| April 2021 | Lionsgate's Starz division filed an injunction against The Walt Disney Company over the Star+ brand in Latin America. |
| April 8 2020 | Developers secured $60 million in financing for the Yonkers studio project, with Lionsgate anchoring the remaining $40 million in the second phase. |
| 2019 | Lionsgate Entertainment World, an indoor interactive experience centre featuring Lionsgate film franchises, opened on Hengqin in Zhuhai, China during the first half of the year. The project was an investment by Lai Sun Group and designed by Thinkwell Group. |
| 2019 | Lionsgate Games published the Blair Witch video game, expanding their interactive entertainment portfolio based on their film franchise. |
| 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and Knives Out released, showcasing the studio's action and mystery genres |
| November 2019 | Construction of the Yonkers studio complex is set to begin, with plans to have the facility running by late autumn 2020. |
| October 3 2019 | John C. Malone completed the sale of his stake in the studio. |
| September 5 2019 | Great Point Capital Management signed a deal with Lionsgate to build a new $100 million production facility in Yonkers, New York, with Lionsgate as the anchor tenant and investor. |
| 2018 | Lionsgate launched its digital content unit, Studio L, and announced its first slate. |
| 2018 | Lionsgate acquires Den of Thieves from STX Entertainment and begins its distribution |
| August 6 2018 | Lionsgate signed a first-look television development agreement with Universal Music Group. |
| January 2018 | Lionsgate became the subject of a bidding war for possible acquisition, with Comcast and Sony Pictures making offers. |
| 2017 | Lionsgate partnered with comedian Kevin Hart to launch the LOL Network. |
| 2017 | Wonder released, adding to the studio's critically acclaimed films |
| 2017 | Lionsgate starts distribution of The Hitman's Bodyguard series |
| December 15 2017 | John Malone sold nearly 108,000 class B shares in Lionsgate for $3.2 million. |
| October 2017 | Joe Drake returns as Lionsgate's film group chairman. |
| 2016 | Diversifies with critically acclaimed La La Land and releases Now You See Me 2 |
| 2016 | Lionsgate begins distributing Norm of the North and Rock Dog film series, with Rock Dog's first installment released through Summit Premiere |
| December 8 2016 | Lionsgate acquired Starz Inc., which included the North American branches of Manga Entertainment and Anchor Bay Entertainment. |
| June 30 2016 | Lionsgate agreed to acquire Starz Inc. for $4.4 billion in cash and stock, becoming its parent company. |
| May 2 2016 | Lionsgate launched the GlobalGate Entertainment consortium with eight international companies to produce and distribute local-language films. |
|
We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic. |
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Lionsgate Studios, Starz Entertainment & Lionsgate Films, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.