Slate of Films Includes Action Hit John Wick: Chapter Two, The Shack and
The Upcoming Robin
Hood
SYDNEY and SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 23, 2017 /CNW/ -- Reflecting the
continued expansion of their partnership, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A,
LGF.B), a premier next generation global content leader, and Canal+
Group's Studiocanal have signed a long term output agreement under
which Studiocanal will distribute films from Lionsgate's Summit
Entertainment label in Australia
and New Zealand. The announcement
was made today by Elizabeth Trotman,
Studiocanal CEO for Australia and
New Zealand, and Lionsgate Motion
Picture Group Chairman Patrick
Wachsberger and International COO Andrew Kramer.
The new output agreement will encompass films from Lionsgate's
Summit Entertainment label including the second installment of the
blockbuster action franchise, John
Wick: Chapter Two; The Shack, based on the
best-selling novel and starring Sam
Worthington and Academy Award® winner Octavia Spencer; and the upcoming
Robin Hood, Otto Bathurst's contemporary retelling of the
classic legend teaming Jamie Foxx
and Taron Egerton. Other titles
included in the deal are the action thriller Granite
Mountain, featuring a star-studded cast of Josh Brolin, Jennifer
Connelly, Miles Teller,
Jeff Bridges and Taylor Kitsch; and
the crime thriller with a sci-fi twist, Kin, starring
Jack Reynor, Academy Award® nominee
James Franco and Zoë Kravitz, among
others.
Studiocanal currently distributes Lionsgate and Summit
Entertainment film titles in Germany and Lionsgate handles Studiocanal's
film library in North America.
"We are delighted to extend our relationship with our partners
at Studiocanal into another major territory," said Wachsberger and
Kramer. "They are a savvy world-class distributor who has done a
wonderful job with our films in Germany, and we are proud to bring to their
highly regarded Australia/New
Zealand team one of our most diverse and commercially
exciting slates."
"We're thrilled to be working with Patrick, Andrew, Crystal and
the rest of the Lionsgate team," said Trotman. "The Summit slate of
films is a major force at the international box office, and we look
forward to their deep and diverse pipeline of critically-acclaimed
blockbusters for years to come."
The agreement was negotiated by Elizabeth Trotman on behalf of Studiocanal and
Lionsgate Executive Vice President of International Sales
Crystal Bourbeau.
ABOUT LIONSGATE
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) is a
vertically integrated next generation global content leader with a
diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution,
television programming and syndication, premium pay television
networks, home entertainment, global distribution and sales,
interactive ventures and games and location-based
entertainment.
With the acquisition of Starz, Lionsgate adds to its portfolio
of businesses the flagship STARZ premium pay network serving 24.3
million subscribers and the STARZ ENCORE platform with 31 million
subscribers. The combined company will operate five over-the-top
(OTT) streaming services and the STARZ app delivering content
directly to consumers.
The Company's feature film business spans eight labels and
includes the blockbuster The Hunger Games franchise, the
Now You See Me series, the box office blockbuster La La
Land, which won six Academy Awards®, the hit franchise sequel
John Wick: Chapter Two,
double Oscar winner Hacksaw Ridge, Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween, The Shack, CBS
Films/Lionsgate's Hell or High Water, Roadside Attractions'
critically-acclaimed Manchester
by the Sea, Codeblack Films' breakout concert film
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
and Pantelion Films' Instructions Not Included, the
highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the
U.S.
One of the largest independent television businesses in the
world, Lionsgate's slate of premium quality series encompasses
nearly 90 shows on more than 40 different networks. These include
the ground-breaking Orange is the New Black, the fan
favorite Nashville, the
syndication success The Wendy Williams Show, the hit drama
The Royals, the acclaimed Casual, the breakout
success Greenleaf and hit STARZ series including
Outlander, Black Sails, Survivor's Remorse and
Power, the second highest-rated premium pay television
series of 2016.
Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in
box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rates.
Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of more than
16,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important
source of recurring revenue and serves as a foundation for the
growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate, Summit
Entertainment and Starz brands are synonymous with original,
daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.
www.lionsgate.com
ABOUT STUDIOCANAL
STUDIOCANAL is Europe's leader in production, right
acquisition, distribution and international sales of feature films
and TV series. STUDIOCANAL operates directly in all three major
European markets, France, the
United Kingdom and Germany, as well as in Australia and New
Zealand. STUDIOCANAL is also present in the USA and in China.
STUDIOCANAL has fully-financed recent box office hits like
Paddington, Shaun the Sheep and Non-Stop.
Upcoming films backed by STUDIOCANAL include The Commuter
featuring Liam Neeson, the
highly-anticipated Paddington 2 by Paul King, and Aardman Studios' stop-motion
movies Early Man by Nick Park
and Shaun the Sheep 2.
STUDIOCANAL is actively developing and distributing high-end TV
series through its network of award-winning production companies
including Tandem Productions in Germany (Crossing
Lines, Spotless), the UK's RED Production Company (The
Five, Happy Valley) and BAMBÚ PRODUCCIONES (Grand Hotel,
Velvet).
Additionally, STUDIOCANAL owns one of the most important film
libraries in the world, boasting more than 9000 original titles
from 60 countries.
STUDIOCANAL's parent company, CANAL+ Group, is fully-owned by
Vivendi, a global media and content production and distribution
group.
For more information, please contact:
Peter Wilkes
Lionsgate
PWilkes@lionsgate.com
(310) 255-3726
Or
Cristina Castañeda
Lionsgate
CCastaneda@lionsgate.com
(310) 255-5114
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