The Berlin-based media giant will continue to distribute Lionsgate films in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in the new multi-year agreement, the companies say this morning. The output deal begins in Germany on November 20 with the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1. It also will include the upcoming Johnny Depp film Mortdecai, and the live action Power Rangers films. Under the previous arrangement, Studiocanal “was a major contributor to The Hunger Games franchise’s evolution into a global phenomenon,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-chairs Patrick Wachsberger and Rob Friedman say in this morning’s release. The second film in the series, Catching Fire, “more than doubled the box office performance of the first Hunger Games film in Germany.”
Concurrently, Studiocanal Germany extended its TV licensing deal with ProSiebenSat.1 which serves free TV channels in Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland. Lionsgate releases will become the “centerpiece” of the TV arrangements, the companies say.
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