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  • Billionaire Launches Hostile Bid to Buy Film Studio (20 Mar 2010 02:42)

    ... Billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Friday announced a hostile takeover of the independent film studio Lionsgate Entertainment. Icahn is offering six dollars a share to acquire at least 50.1 percent ...

  • Icahn's Wide Screen: Wants Total Takeover of Lionsgate (20 Mar 2010 04:55)

    ... total value of just over $700 million. Lionsgate executives rejected his offer as inadequate. Also ... buy more of the company. (The independent studio is behind the hit TV series "Mad ... He believes management wants to buy more film libraries, such as the ones from Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer ...

  • U.S. billionaire launches hostile bid for takeover of studio (20 Mar 2010 07:16)

    ... U.S. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has launched a hostile takeover bid for an independent studio, Lionsgate Entertainment Corp, after it rejected his efforts to increase his stake in the company ...

  • Lionsgate to Open Dibbuk Box (20 Mar 2010 03:30)

    ... is reporting that Lionsgate has picked up North American rights to ... Raimi and Rob Tapert will produce. The film is loosely based on the article "A ...

  • Ti West Updates on The Innkeepers, His Follow-Up to The House of the Devil; Starts Filming in April (20 Mar 2010 22:35)

    ... super gorey straight-to-DVD sequel he has disowned following creative differences with Lionsgate… : the film will have a similar budget to , which has backed all of West's films ...

  • UPDATE 4-Icahn offers to buy Lions Gate as MGM bid looms (20 Mar 2010 01:16)

    ... Lions Gate's bid for MGM and its film library. Shares of Lions Gate ended 1 ... on Bond -- deemed the most successful movie franchise in history -- or the upcoming ... (Editing by David Gregorio) +1 646-223-6224)) Keywords: LIONSGATE ICAHN/ (Click on to see Reuters MediaFile ...

  • Does Icahn Still Make Them Tremble? (20 Mar 2010 22:52)

    ... sold soon after. His latest target is Lionsgate Entertainment. Yet, for all of his high-profile ... of contentious situations.” to buy the Hollywood studio Lionsgate Entertainment; meanwhile, through the $8 billion ...

  • MGM pushes back deadline on bids (20 Mar 2010 15:12)

    ... binding offers until at least Monday. The studio had no comment as Friday's deadline for ... three most likely bidders -- Access Industries, Lionsgate and Time Warner -- also had no ...

  • SXSW '10: Snapshots From A Weekend for New Movies in Austin (15 Mar 2010 16:32)

    ... While the film is definitely from a pro-Obama point of ... asked if he had problems making a movie in which a little girl plays a ... a superhero getting into fights and swearing. Lionsgate will release the film this year. Check ...

  • Studios, cable companies team for VOD (17 Mar 2010 06:13)

    ... coming months to further promote awareness of movies available on cable VOD. The Movies on ... Movies on Demand initiative comes as on-demand film rentals have hit new highs as viewing ... Universal's Universal Pictures and Focus Features, Rogue, Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment. The cable partners include ...

  • Film buyers rethinking presales (19 Mar 2010 02:15)

    ... par excellence for the always ailing indie film business. But during the past few years, ... because, on the buyer side, they need movies for 2011, 2012, after holding their powder ... Central Partnership paid about $2 million to Lionsgate for rights to the third installment in ...

  • Icahn launches takeover bid for Lionsgate (19 Mar 2010 16:15)

    ... comes a week after senior management at Lionsgate recommended shareholders rebuff Icahn's latest overture for ... control and influence of the Vancouver-based indie studio. "Due to management's recent actions, I am ... to aim "more at the consolidation of film and television distributors." And Lionsgate would chop ...

  • Studio Canal DVD releases are loaded with extras (19 Mar 2010 03:31)

    ... all about making us re-buy our favorite films with every new format.Still, you’ve gotta love ... why the new Studio Canal collection from Lionsgate Home Entertainment Video is such a welcome ... a welcome arrival.Studio Canal is a French movie company that owns the world’s third-largest film ...

  • Studio Canal releases are loaded with extras (19 Mar 2010 20:49)

    ... all about making us re-buy our favorite films with every new format. Still, you've gotta ... why the new Studio Canal collection from Lionsgate Home Entertainment Video is such a welcome ... welcome arrival. Studio Canal is a French movie company that owns the world's third-largest film ...

  • Jewish billionaire Carl Icahn wants to buy all of Lionsgate (19 Mar 2010 18:15)

    ... Icahn has been buying up shares of Lionsgate films in an incremental takeover. But the wait ... troubled company. Icahns ownership of the mini studio has rapidly increased from 4% in October ...

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