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Breakdown: Lionsgate Leads the Blu-ray Pack

Breakdown: Lionsgate Leads the Blu-ray Pack

We’re taking a time out to highlight the efforts of Lionsgate releasing to bring lots of great genre flicks into the high definition world.

By Robert Fure on February 1, 2010 | View Comments

‘Buried’ Gets Unearthed at Sundance by Lionsgate

‘Buried’ Gets Unearthed at Sundance by Lionsgate

How much does it cost to purchase Ryan Reynolds in a coffin? Apparently somewhere between three and four million dollars.

By Landon Palmer on January 26, 2010 | View Comments

Review: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Review: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

In Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, director Lee Daniels pulls off an improbable feat.

By Robert Levin on November 22, 2009 | View Comments

Reject Radio: Episode 24: That Mockingbird is Gonna Sail Away

Reject Radio: Episode 24: That Mockingbird is Gonna Sail Away

This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, we laugh and cry about the state of independent filmmaking while eating leftover Halloween candy.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on November 2, 2009 | View Comments

31 Days of Horror: The Children

31 Days of Horror: The Children

We get our Holidays crossed and spend Christmas in October with a bunch of Hellish kids you’ll want to see roasting over an open fire.

By Robert Fure on October 28, 2009 | View Comments

Tyler Perry Can Do ‘Rainbow’ All By Himself

Tyler Perry Can Do ‘Rainbow’ All By Himself

The master of producing a movie a year featuring himself in a Grandmama costume has just been hired to adapt the Shange play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.”

By Dr. Cole Abaius on September 6, 2009 | View Comments

Discuss: Would You Rent Movies from YouTube?

Discuss: Would You Rent Movies from YouTube?

From the people that brought you Sneezing Panda, it’s a movie rental concept that will rival Netflix, Redbox, and that guy that comes over sometimes and acts out all the parts to Sleepless in Seattle for you despite the restraining order.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on September 3, 2009 | View Comments

Don’t Worry: ‘Kick-Ass’ Has Distribution

Don’t Worry: ‘Kick-Ass’ Has Distribution

Lionsgate has scooped up Matthew Vaughn’s inventive and sure to be controversial flick, and they might even send it to theaters next year. Doesn’t it make you want to watch the bootleg clips again? Too bad. But maybe a trailer will appear soon…

By Rob Hunter on August 17, 2009 | View Comments

Book of Blood Trailer: Promises of Blood, Awkward Book Binding

Book of Blood Trailer: Promises of Blood, Awkward Book Binding

Normally when you bind a book in human flesh you have the decency to skin the person alive first.

By Robert Fure on July 8, 2009 | View Comments

‘Hitman 2′ Recruits Young Writer

‘Hitman 2′ Recruits Young Writer

In other news: Fox is working on a Hitman sequel. No word yet on who will have to go bald for it.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on June 25, 2009 | View Comments

‘Crash’ Director to Remake French Thriller

‘Crash’ Director to Remake French Thriller

Which French thriller could I be talking about? And which Crash director? Haggis or Cronenberg? That title isn’t very clear at all!

By Dr. Cole Abaius on June 3, 2009 | View Comments

Confirmed: Sundance Grand Jury Winner ‘Push’ Acquired by Lionsgate, Oprah

Confirmed: Sundance Grand Jury Winner ‘Push’ Acquired by Lionsgate, Oprah

A week ago we reported that Lionsgate was in the process of acquiring Lee Daniels’ Sundance Grand Jury and Audience Award winning film Push: Based on a novel by Sapphire. Today Variety has confirmed what we already told you…

By Neil Miller on February 2, 2009 | View Comments

Lionsgate May Buy Summit, Bloody Up ‘Twilight’

Lionsgate May Buy Summit, Bloody Up ‘Twilight’

News coming down the wire last night about a potential buy-out of Summit Entertainment by Lionsgate has sent shockwaves through the online film community this morning. Namely, everyone seems to want to speculate about what the blood-thirsty Execs. over at Lionsgate might do with Summit’s one and only successful property, Twilight.

By Neil Miller on February 2, 2009 | View Comments

Buzz Monitor: Frank Miller’s The Spirit Gets Flushed by Critics

Buzz Monitor: Frank Miller’s The Spirit Gets Flushed by Critics

Over the course of the past few months we’ve been very critical of Frank Miller’s The Spirit. Beginning with the first teaser trailer and continuing well into our Comic-Con coverage, we’ve been less than excited about the footage that has been shown. And by less excited, I am referring to the way we’ve ripped it apart.

By Neil Miller on December 19, 2008 | View Comments

Lionsgate Begins Loving Frank Lloyd Wright

Lionsgate Begins Loving Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright doesn’t seem like someone who would be the subject of a romantic film. However, his affair with Chicago society matron Mamah Borthwick Cheney was immortalized in the book “Loving Frank” by Nancy Horan. It’s now been optioned by Lionsgate and is set to hit the big screen.

By Robin Ruinsky on December 17, 2008 | View Comments

Lionsgate and LeBron James Make Us Witnesses to Documentary

Lionsgate and LeBron James Make Us Witnesses to Documentary

He’s been called The Chosen One, King James and the best baller since Michael Jordan. Now LeBron James wants to have a Space Jam of his own on the big screen.

By Adam Sweeney on November 26, 2008 | View Comments

Field Report: Repo! The Genetic Experience!

Field Report: Repo! The Genetic Experience!

Our very own Ashley Demma has a geek-girl-gasm at her Chicago Repo viewing. Her words of advice to us all: If Repo! is coming to a city near you, go. Don’t think, just go.

By Ashley Demma on November 16, 2008 | View Comments

Movie Drinking Games: Saw V

Movie Drinking Games: Saw V

If you need a little somethin’ somethin’ to numb your brain while you watch human mutilation, why not try this on for size. Like Jigsaw might say: “Would you like to play a drinking game?”

By Kevin Carr on October 24, 2008 | View Comments

Lexi Alexander Wants You to Know that Punisher: War Zone Contains Violence, No Dialogue

Lexi Alexander Wants You to Know that Punisher: War Zone Contains Violence, No Dialogue

It has become clear that Lionsgate does not want us to think about the terrible dialogue present in the upcoming film Punisher: War Zone. All they’d like us to think about is bullets, lots of bullets.

By Neil Miller on October 13, 2008 | View Comments

Punisher: War Zone’s Pervasive Violence Earns R Rating

Punisher: War Zone’s Pervasive Violence Earns R Rating

The latest round of MPAA ratings has come through, and it appears that at least one of the most recent rumors from behind the production of Punisher: War Zone can be put to rest.

By Neil Miller on October 3, 2008 | View Comments