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  • Lionsgate acquires home entertainment rights for ‘Lalaloopsy’

    Lionsgate acquires home entertainment rights for ‘Lalaloopsy’

    MUMBAI: Global entertainment company Lionsgate has announced that it has entered into an agreement with consumer entertainment products company, MGA Entertainment, to acquire the home entertainment distribution rights to toy property Lalaloopsy.

    Lionsgate will serve as the exclusive distributor of Lalaloopsy™ product for all packaged media and digital platforms in several territories, including the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

    The announcement was made by Lionsgate EVP of Family Entertainment Anne Parducci and MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian.

    The Lalaloopsy dolls were launched in 2010. The announcement of Lionsgate‘s entry into this whimsical world comes soon after the property dominated all wish lists during the holiday shopping season.

    Called “This year‘s Tickle Me Elmo” by MSNBC and “the ‘IT‘ doll for the holidays” by the Today Show, the Lalaloopsy dolls were featured in just about every major hot toy list for the holidays including Amazon.com, Toys R Us, Time To Play, toys.com and many more.

    Lionsgate‘s initial home entertainment feature release – Adventures in Lalaloopsy Land: The Search for Pillow – will launch in March.

    Parducci said, “We have been very impressed by Lalaloopsy‘s exponential growth as a brand since their launch in 2010, developing beyond the initial doll line into several additional categories such as apparel, fashion accessories, video games and books. We are excited to help bring the highly successful Lalaloopsy doll line to life through the first Lalaloopsy movie. The unique stories that each doll has combined with all of their wonderful friends and accessories lends itself perfectly to the type of high quality, engaging premiere children‘s entertainment that has become the trademark of our Family division.”

    Larian said, “MGA has enjoyed a great partnership with Lionsgate through the years as witnessed by the popularity of Bratz home entertainment. They have an amazing library of family friendly films and we are thrilled to add the magic of Lalaloopsy to the Lionsgate family this spring!”

  • Lionsgate acquires US rights of You’re Next

    Lionsgate acquires US rights of You’re Next

    MUMBAI: Lionsgate, a leading global entertainment company, has acquired the US and Canadian distribution rights of Your‘re Next.


    Directed by Adam Wingard from a script by Simon Barrett, the film is a petrifying horror story starring Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, A.J. Bowen, Nicholas Tucci and Barbara Crampton.



    In Your‘re Next, during a family reunion getaway, the Davison family comes under a sadistic attack. When Crispian Davison (Bowen) brings his new girlfriend (Vinson) along to celebrate the wedding anniversary of his parents (Moran and Crampton), the family‘s evening together is shattered when a gang of mysterious killers begin to hunt the family down with brutal precision. Unfortunately for the killers however, one of the victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.


    Jason Constantine negotiated the deal on behalf of Lionsgate with Eda Kowan, SVP of Acquisitions and Co-Productions, and Wendy Jaffe, the Acquisitions and Co-Production team‘s EVP of Business & Legal Affairs.



    “This project represents everything that we look for in a horror film,” explains Jason Constantine, who negotiated the deal, of the company‘s decision to acquire the film. “It is a celebration of its genre, featuring top notch performances from a sophisticated script, brilliantly directed, that will leave audiences on the edge of their seats – when they‘re not jumping out of them,” he added.



    Additionally, the distribution company has acquired Red Granite Pictures‘ Friends With Kids. The film has been produced by Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland‘s Red Granite Pictures with Jennifer Westfeldt and Jon Hamm‘s Points West Pictures, producer Jake Kasdan and Locomotive led by Joshua Astrachan and Lucy Barzun Donnelly. Red Granite is also handling international sales.



    The film is Westfeldt‘s directorial debut, following the two critically acclaimed independent films that she previously wrote and starred in, KISSING JESSICA STEIN and IRA & ABBY.



    Friends With Kids boasts of an ensemble cast of beloved actors with palpable chemistry, many of whom have appeared onscreen together in previous collaborations: Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O‘Dowd, Megan Fox and Edward Burns.

  • Lionsgate signs content deal with Studio Canal

    Lionsgate signs content deal with Studio Canal

    MUMBAI: Independent film studio Lionsgate is continuing to build its library. It has secured access of up to 2,000 titles from Studio Canal in a multi-year deal.

    This deal continues Lionsgate’s strategy of strengthening television, VOD and Internet rights throughout its library.

    The acquisition adds to Lionsgate’s current library of more than 5,500 titles, already one of the most prestigious and prolific in the industry, and positions the company to continue leveraging its content into traditional and digital media distribution platforms. 

    Lionsgate president Steve Beeks says, “The Lionsgate library is the jewel in our crown and, as we move into the digital world, we are capitalizing on opportunities to leverage our stockpile of content into new and incremental revenue streams.”

    The Studio Canal library deal includes television, DVD and a large proportion of VOD rights to a combination of English-language and French-language titles, including Tender Mercies, Crimes Of The Heart, Jean Renoir’s The Grand
    Illusion and Luis Bunuel’s Obscure Object Of Desire.

  • Lionsgate expands into television syndication business

    Lionsgate expands into television syndication business

    MUMBAI: US independent film studio Lionsgate has acquired television distributor Debmar-Mercury.

    Helmed by Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein, the company will continue to operate under the Debmar-Mercury banner as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

    Debmar-Mercury recently completed a successful test of Tyler Perry’s TV shows (Diary Of A Mad Black Woman, Madea’s Family Reunion and the upcoming Daddy’s Little Girl), the comedy series House Of Payne with select major market stations representing a cross section of key station groups. Lionsgate’s acquisition of Debmar-Mercury extends the company’s relationship with Tyler Perry across not only feature film and video product but original television programming, as well.

    The acquisition follows on the heels of Lionsgate’s successful move into international feature film and library self-distribution, through the October 2005 acquisition of UK-based distributor Redbus, which was renamed Lionsgate UK. It also creates a major new distribution portal for Lionsgate by giving it the capacity to syndicate its own television programming and feature film packages as well as creating a new television distribution revenue stream from third-party franchise properties.

    Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer says, “We again have the opportunity to combine our resources with a culturally similar, entrepreneurial company that is a leader in its market segment and whose principals we know well.

    “Debmar-Mercury has become one of the leading independent distributors in the industry. With our fiscal 2007 slate of nine prime time television series, the acquisition of Debmar-Mercury’s television distribution capabilities across new and traditional media outlets is a natural growth opportunity for our content business.”

    Feltheimer noted that the acquisition continues to further Lionsgate’s game plan of broadening its distribution footprint and aggregating rights to important content and properties.