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Cinematographer Nick Matthews, who grew up a fan of the franchise, was already at the point of moving on when Lionsgate called with interest generated by director Kevin Grutert Matthews spoke to Bleeding Cool about his initial fascination with the Saw franchise, bridging the older fans and expanding to new audiences, and what to focus[...]

Photo Credit: Murray Close © 2023 Lionsgate The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird[...]

Also, below is the Steelbook cover for the release. Credit Lionsgate Expend4bles 4K Release Details A new generation of stars join the world's top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis "50 Cent"[...]

SAW X has been in theaters for two weeks, and already Lionsgate is tossing it onto digital The film will be released on premium digital services and on-demand this Friday, with a proper 4K release to follow on November 21st The film is the tenth in the franchise and also the best-reviewed movie in the[...]

Photo Credit: Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla ©2023 Lionsgate Now, after successfully concluding Kramer's story in an epic fashion, the director of the recent installment is also expressing interest in a few different concepts for the 11th film But nothing is concrete yet. Saw X Director Says Future Films Could Take Several Different Routes During an interview with The Hollywood[...]

Photo Credit: Murray Close © 2023 Lionsgate The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird[...]

However, unlike The Deathly Hallows or even Breaking Dawn, Mockingjay never felt like a book that really needed to be split into two, and of the three, it felt the most like a blatant cash grab on the part of Lionsgate How, ahead of the release of The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes and its[...]

Back in January, the Borderlands film was dealt another blow when it was revealed that director Eli Roth would not be returning for two weeks of reshoots, and Lionsgate had to bring on Tim Miller instead Some saw this as proof that the film was in dire straights, but it seemed to be a much more classic[...]

© 2023 Lionsgate; Photo Credit: Murray Close John Wick Director Already Has a Few Ideas for Nearly 10 Films In conversation with Inverse, filmmaker Chad Stahelski discussed the prospective plans for future films, telling the publication, "I have notebooks and notebooks of shit behind me, John Wicks 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 We have ideas for days[...]

2022 © 2023 Lionsgate Why Sylvester Stallone's Reduced Expendables Role Served a Purpose When speaking with JoBlo, Expend4bles producer Les Weldon addressed the on-screen shift for Stallone's role, revealing, "Look, it wasn't so much that we said, 'oh, we got to pass the torch here,' because, you know, we were thinking 'what is a good story for[...]

Photo Credit: Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla ©2023 Lionsgate Why Saw X Included the Return of Two Franchise Icons While talking to Entertainment Weekly to promote the release of Saw X, producer Oren Koules discussed the choice to bring back Jigsaw's fan-favorite apprentice, telling them, "It's after Saw I, and [Amanda's] lived through the trap[...]

Photo Credit: Murray Close © 2023 Lionsgate The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird[...]

Lionsgate is sitting pretty right now after Saw X was not only a critical but commercial success as well, but they have another big franchise movie coming up soon. The Hunger Games is one of the biggest franchises that Lionsgate has, but November is a hectic time of month, and no matter how big the fandom for[...]

Photo Credit: Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla ©2023 Lionsgate Kaitlyn Booth: We are ten movies in, but no franchise can survive on your die-hard fans alone, even though Saw has some very die-hard fans You need to bring in new people What steps were taken to try and bring in new people for this movie? In particular, for[...]

Photo Credit: Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla ©2023 Lionsgate Kaitlyn Booth: "Old horror movies had to be directed really well because they could only shoot the animatronics and the monsters from very specific angles because they were being held together with duct tape, a shoestring, and the hopes and dreams of the production crew And I've always thought[...]

Photo Credit: Murray Close © 2023 Lionsgate More Films After The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes When discussing the requirements for a potential follow-up to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes or something else entirely, director Francis Lawrence explained to EW, "If Suzanne has another thematic idea that she feels fits into[...]

We know how vital propaganda is in this world, and it would be really fun if Lionsgate would really lean into that for the marketing for The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes.  The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes – Summary, Cast List, Release Date Experience the story of The Hunger Games — 64 years before[...]

Lionsgate hopes they have another hit on their hands with The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes because the first series of movies were some of the biggest the studio has ever released With the writer's strike over and the SAG-AFTRA strike hopefully getting solved sooner rather than later, all of the studios[...]

The producers of Saw X say that this is "the most concerted effort" they have made to make a film accessible to people who have never seen a Saw movie.

A producer of Saw X recently confirmed that there's an important post-credit scene that has the potential to ignite additional Saw films.

Photo Credit: Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla ©2023 Lionsgate Saw X production designer Anthony Stabley also praised Bell and talked about how involved he would be when it came to the traps, saying, "He was great with us in the art department because we would walk through the sets, and he would say, "Oh, I'd like to have[...]

Saw X producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules have revealed how they go about listening to the fans, and it includes lurking on all of your Reddit threads.

Armed with a newfound purpose, John returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through a series of ingenious and terrifying traps. Saw X Poster © 2023 Lionsgate Sometimes, the only way forward is back, which seems to be the case for the Saw franchise After John Kramer died,[...]

Photo Credit: Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla ©2023 Lionsgate Making The Saw X Traps Work Is A Lot Like Broadway Greutert and Stabley went on to make an almost comical comparison about what these traps are doing and what they are trying to accomplish on screen; in many ways, the way they are shot and framed is a lot like a[...]

Many thanks to the various other journalists who attended the Saw X junket, who let me ask them a billion clarifying questions about things, and Lionsgate for the invite Did Saw X convert me to a fan of the franchise? Unclear, though I have joined the cult of Tobin Bell So maybe that's enough. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item[...]

Armed with a newfound purpose, John returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through a series of ingenious and terrifying traps." The Lionsgate film Saw X is in theaters on September 29, 2023.   Saw X is just a few days from its theatrical release, marking the 10th[...]

2022 © 2023 Lionsgate Expend4bles Star Addresses Sylvester Stalone's Reduced Role During an interview with Cinema Express, veteran Expendables star Statham discussed the unavoidable role shift for Stallone in this recent installment of Expendables, telling the publication, "In this particular story, he is absent for reasons we don't talk about; we have to guide ourselves through the[...]

One of the producers of the Has Fallen franchise starring Gerard Butler is offering his take on the chances of getting another trilogy.

Armed with a newfound purpose, John returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through a series of ingenious and terrifying traps. Credit Lionsgate I think I am down for this one And fans have responded in kind; buzz for the series has not been this strong in years[...]

2022 © 2023 Lionsgate Antonio Banderas' Expend4bles Absence Led to the Introduction of His Character's Son During a recent interview promoting the release of the newest chapter of the Expendables franchise, the film's director, Scott Waugh, first addressed the unavoidable absence of Banderas by telling the publication, "Look, actor availability is always difficult when you have this[...]