Film Hits Theaters March 20, 2015
Interactive 3D Poster Campaign Launches Today
VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
and SANTA MONICA, Calif.,
Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), a premier next generation global
content leader, today announced that it will release The
Divergent Series: Insurgent, the second installment of its
Divergent franchise, in both 3D and 2D. The film will
be released worldwide on March 20,
2015 through Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment label.
The Company will also today roll out eight new interactive 3D
character posters, with one new poster debuting each hour.
For more, please visit
https://www.facebook.com/TheDivergentSeries
"The second film in the Divergent franchise takes the
story and action to another level and, by partnering with RealD, we
were able to blend gripping performances and mind-blowing spectacle
to create a unique event on screen," said producers Douglas Wick and Lucy
Fisher. "We cannot wait to share this experience with
audiences around the world."
The Divergent Series: Insurgent raises the stakes
for Tris as she searches for allies and answers in the
ruins of a futuristic Chicago.
Tris (Woodley) and Four (James) are
now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine
(Winslet), the leader of the power-hungry Erudite
elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris's
family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite
leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past
choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with
Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as
they unlock the truth about the past and ultimately the future of
their world.
The film stars Golden Globe®-nominee Shailene Woodley, Theo
James, Academy Award®-winners Kate
Winslet and Octavia Spencer,
Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoe
Kravitz, Miles Teller,
Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q and
Mekhi Phifer, is based on author
Veronica Roth's New York Times best-seller of the same name.
The film is directed by Robert
Schwentke from a screenplay by Brian
Duffield, Akiva Goldsman and
Mark Bomback and produced by
Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher through their Red Wagon
Entertainment banner, along with Pouya
Shahbazian. Todd Lieberman
and David Hoberman are executive
producing through their Mandeville Films banner along with
Neil Burger and Barry Waldman.
The first Divergent film grossed nearly $300 million at the global box office, and
Veronica Roth's Divergent
book series has already sold nearly 30 million copies around the
world. The third and fourth installments in the franchise,
Allegiant – Parts 1 & 2, are slated for release on
March 18, 2016 and March 24, 2017, respectively.
ABOUT LIONSGATE
Lionsgate, home to The Hunger
Games, Twilight and Divergent franchises, is a
premier next generation global content leader with a strong and
diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution,
television programming and syndication, home entertainment, digital
distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution
and sales. Lionsgate currently has more than 30 television shows on
over 20 different networks spanning its primetime production,
distribution and syndication businesses, including such
critically-acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award-winning Mad
Men and Nurse Jackie, the comedy Anger
Management, the broadcast network series Nashville, the syndication success The
Wendy Williams Show and the critically-acclaimed hit series
Orange is the New Black.
Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent
successes as the blockbuster first two installments of The
Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games and The
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the first installment of the
Divergent franchise, Now You See Me, John Wick, Warm Bodies, The
Possession, Sinister, Roadside Attractions' A Most
Wanted Man, Lionsgate/Codeblack Films' Addicted and
Pantelion Films' Instructions Not Included, the
highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the
U.S.
Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in
box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rate.
Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of
approximately 16,000 motion picture and television titles that is
an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the
foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The
Lionsgate and Summit brands remain synonymous with original,
daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.
ABOUT RealD Inc.
RealD is a leading global licensor of
3D and other visual technologies. RealD's extensive intellectual
property portfolio is used in applications that enable a premium
viewing experience in the theater, the home and elsewhere. RealD
licenses its RealD Cinema Systems to motion picture exhibitors that
show 3D motion pictures and alternative 3D content. RealD also
provides certain of its technologies and active and passive eyewear
to consumer electronics manufacturers and content distributors and
will continue to leverage its extensive intellectual property
portfolio to develop additional revenue opportunities.
RealD was founded in 2003 and has offices in Beverly Hills, California; Boulder, Colorado; London, United Kingdom; Moscow, Russia; Shanghai, China; Hong Kong; Tokyo,
Japan; and Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. For more information, please visit our website at
www.reald.com.
For more information, please contact:
Julie Fontaine
Lionsgate
310-255-4970
jfontaine@lionsgate.com
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