She’ll make a great teammate to Lauren, who has helped stand up an expanding streaming business and whose expertise in creating a slate of multiplatform titles has continued to grow and prove increasingly important and profitable under her leadership. “Her vast experience in development, production, and acquisitions, alongside her extensive relationships throughout the industry, make her uniquely suited for this role and a fantastic addition to the team. “As Cannes gets underway next week, we’re thrilled to welcome Charlotte to the Lionsgate family,” Kahane continued.

Taking on additional leadership responsibilities alongside Koh, Lauren Bixby has been upped to SVP, Acquisitions and Co-Productions, and will continue to lead the studio’s acquisitions team for multiplatform and streaming titles as well as oversee the blossoming targeted theatrical business. In that position, she will be focused on leading the acquisitions team for the wide-release theatrical slate. Constantine, who has driven pick-ups of the John Wick, Expendables and Saw franchises during his tenure at the studio, will report directly to Kahane and oversee creative strategy in both production and acquisitions.Ĭharlotte Koh will join the studio as EVP, Acquisitions and Co-Productions. In the new structure, Lionsgate’s Jason Constantine has been named co-president, Motion Picture Group. 'The Chosen': Lionsgate Takes Worldwide Rights To Hit Jesus Drama Bringing internal development, acquisitions, and co-productions together in one unit enables us to reach the full potential of our philosophy and strategy as a studio.” In a business where content is more valuable than ever, our strategy is to meet audiences across the globe wherever they consume entertainment with the movies they want to see. “We now release approximately 50 new films every year across our wide theatrical release business, from our tentpoles like John Wick: Chapter 4 and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to our more targeted theatrical business with movies like Sisu and Fall, including a vibrant multiplatform release pipeline that debuts over 30 films annually.

“Lionsgate has grown aggressively over the last few years,” said Drake. Joe Drake, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair just made the announcement. Lionsgate has merged its Production and Acquisitions groups under a single Content banner, to be headed by Motion Picture Group president Nathan Kahane.

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