Lionsgate Play, the streaming service operated by STARZ, has greenlit a college romance drama series, U-Special, to be headed up by veteran actor/writer/director Akarsh Khurana as showrunner. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, saying U-Special is set in the cheerful, quirky and vibrant world of a large university campus filled with young people...
Lionsgate Studio Launches Globalgate, Targets India
Santa Monica, California-based Lionsgate, global content leader whose feature films, television programming and digital content touch consumers around the world, hopes to tap specific international markets with a new partnership: Globalgate Entertainment. This initiative teams the studio with executives Paul Presburger, William Pfeiffer and Clifford Werber. Globalgate plans to identify and produce films in local languages that...
Authorized Hollywood Movie Remakes Gain Ground in India
Hollywood’s 2011 martial arts drama Warrior, has been remade as Brothers, a co-production between Lionsgate and Endemol India's Eyedentity Motion Pictures. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rentrak ranked Brothers in the 10th spot among the top 10 international releases for the weekend of August 15. The movie collected a total...
Hollywood Goes to India on Viacom18’s English Language Channel
A new Indian television channel will offer content from Warner Bros, International Television Distribution, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Television, Twentieth Century Fox, Lionsgate, MGM, the BBC and Endemol Shine, among others says The Hollywood Reporter. Colors Infinity from Viacom18 launches this month. Viacom18 is a joint venture between Viacom an American...