#How a Group of Lionsgate Execs Built a Diversity Pipeline That’s Kickstarting Careers

#How a Group of Lionsgate Execs Built a Diversity Pipeline That’s Kickstarting Careers

It wasn’t their job, until they made it their job. That’s the surprisingly innovative ethos behind Lionsgate’s Production Inclusion Coalition program, started by a group of physical and postproduction staffers during the early months of the pandemic. PIC includes a growing number of tangible action plans to widen and diversify the industry pipelines for both…

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#Lionsgate Cuts Staff In Film Division

#Lionsgate Cuts Staff In Film Division

Layoff season isn’t over at Lionsgate’s film division. The company, based in Vancouver and headquartered in Santa Monica, laid off a dozen employees in its Motion Picture Group, a source confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. The cuts impact about 3 percent of the division, which totals about 400 employees. The pink slips hit the group…

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#Amazon to Relaunch MGM Streaming Services in Europe as MGM+ International, Add Lionsgate Content

#Amazon to Relaunch MGM Streaming Services in Europe as MGM+ International, Add Lionsgate Content

Following the relaunch of Epix as MGM+ in the U.S. in January, Amazon unveiled on Wednesday that MGM’s streaming services will be rebranded as MGM+ International in key European countries. The company also announced that it had struck a “strategic content deal” with Lionsgate for “a significant package of premium films and television series” in…

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#Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery Among Top Hollywood Stock Gainers in First Quarter

#Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery Among Top Hollywood Stock Gainers in First Quarter

Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global were among the hit Hollywood stocks of the first quarter of 2023, shaking off investor concerns about such industry challenges as record cord-cutting, getting streaming businesses to profitability and economic clouds darkening the advertising outlook, as well as recent stock market volatility due to the collapse of banks….

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