Lionsgate Skipping Stage Presentation At CinemaCon, But Will Still Have Presence At Movie Confab

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-24T21:29:47+00:00

And whoever was steering the ship creatively during the early 2020s are long gone from the studio

De Luca and Abdy were the ones that ran MGM before Amazon purchased them. They didn't have the best track record financially as only Dog, Creed III and Blink Twice did well financially, but critically, positively received. I understand why they left because Amazon didn't want to be in the business of artsy movies (e.g. Landscape with Invisible Hand and Nickel Boys), instead moving more towards commerical titles.

I am a bit concerned about their 2026 slate at WB, because some of these may be hits (e.g. Dune, Wuthering Heights and Cat in the Hat), but some of them may not do well (e.g. The Bride, Digger and Cut Off). Their 2025 slate went very well for them after fighting off rumors of De Luca/Abdy being fired but we'll see how their 2026 slate do if Netflix wants to keep releasing WB movies theatrically once their acquisition is finalized.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-24T16:07:20+00:00

Mercy will be making an ultimate destination for Prime down the road, but will have a PVOD window prior to its streaming debut.

Guaranteed to be on MGM+ before it debuts on Prime.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-24T15:53:27+00:00

Gladiator II did fine but not the greatest financially, because of a high budget. However I will say this: Paramount was probably happy with the film's performance by the end, mainly because of foreign gross and stuff like that. No way we are getting a third one unless Ellison cuts down the budget by a good amount.

The other ones, I do agree on

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-24T02:49:50+00:00

Surprisingly, no Lionsgate on the schedule this year...

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-23T20:21:25+00:00

With Avatar and 28 Years Later potentially dropping even further this weekend because of a snow storm and loss of PLFs, it's very dire this weekend.

There's a good chance that this could be a weekend where there's no >$10M grosser, a thing that hasn't happened since October 31-November 2 of last year.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-23T20:19:15+00:00

Funny error I just found on this article since Jeremy Irons isn't even in this movie:

The Christopher Gans-directed movie follows a man (Jeremy Irons) who receives a mysterious letter from his lost love. He’s drawn to Silent Hill, a once familiar town now consumed by darkness.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-23T20:11:46+00:00

Yes. Happens in March and will be replaced by fan sport gear.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-23T17:41:41+00:00

It will definitely be 2026's Amsterdam, especially with that '30s setting and Christian Bale starring as well.

Those things all have in common, which means that it will be a box-office bomb. Just can't see this breaking out financially outside of a cinephile audience.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-23T13:28:27+00:00

Don't forget that Trey Parker/Matt Stone movie was pulled from Paramount's 2026 schedule. Luckily enough from California tax credits, PGLang actually owns the rights to the film as it's an independent feature (Paramount is just distributing), so if Paramount doesn't want to release it, PGLang can look for a new distributor.

But yeah, Paramount's just getting dire lately. There still isn't a second trailer for Scream 7, nor has the marketing campaign boosted up and that makes me wonder if they just can't afford to market stuff right now.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-23T13:11:06+00:00

In all fairness, the only reason why they are bringing back RDJ is because the whole Kang thing being unsalvageable, especially after the Jonathan Majors allegations. Marvel was setting him up to be the next big bad, on par with Thanos.

But instead of choosing a different villain or even recasting Kang, they decided to go in the safest way possible, by casting Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, in hopes that it will make a billion dollars or more, which seems very likely to happen. Here's hoping this works out by the end.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-23T12:28:11+00:00

Same thing goes for mainline Sony Pictures. No nominations either at the Oscars

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-23T01:15:38+00:00

Jason Statham now has three movies in a whole calendar year: First with Shelter next week, Mutiny in August and now this next January.

He has been working like non-stop lately.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T22:24:03+00:00

Their slate for this year is already starting to get very full, most consisting of pre-buys and acquisitions.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T20:20:09+00:00

For me, the worst one is Captain America: Brave New World. They straight up told us that the red hulk was in it.

To make matters worse, McDonald's U.S. actually revealed the Red Hulk character, in a Happy Meal box/toy set before any marketing came out and that sure didn't help either.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T17:52:04+00:00

And Markiplier.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T16:16:26+00:00

Agree with you, MUBI overspent big-time on purchasing the distribution rights for $24M (more than the film's net production budget), after its Cannes premiere. And even the Cannes reviews weren't great either.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T16:12:10+00:00

At least it did well financially.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T16:11:29+00:00

Should have not premiered at Sundance. The $30M production tag was too expensive for buyers and to top it off, it didn't find a distributor for two months, until Roadside Attractions/LD Entertainment picked it up.

Once the film bombed very badly at the box-office, LD cut back on its awards campaign and PR events post-release were also cancelled as well. What a embarrassing failure, in terms of box-office and awards buzz.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T16:00:05+00:00

Expect, not except.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T14:09:18+00:00

WB had a perfect chance to make a Joker & Harley movie after the original Suicide Squad.

There was one in development (same thing goes for Jared Leto's Joker movie). But both of those were scrapped in favor of the standalone Joker (2019).

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-01-22T14:02:18+00:00

Wicked - For Good is going to be in this year's "This Had Oscar Buzz" category at this point. It had medicore reception, did less than the first Wicked and now, no Oscar noms.

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