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Even Josh Peck couldn’t see himself as the lead in Twilight. The Drake & Josh star talked about his audition for the teen vampire romance on a recent episode of his Great Guys podcast. He claimed that he actually got “close” to playing Edward Cullen in the series before — spoiler alert — the role…

While promoting her new film Priscilla, director Sofia Coppola is opening up about the movies she passed on in the past which includes the final Twilight film and a live-action version of The Little Mermaid. Coppola was in talks to helm the final film in the Twilight saga which the studio split into…

Twilight is getting the TV treatment. A TV series based on the best-selling books by Stephanie Meyer is in early development at Lionsgate Television, Deadline confirms. Meyer is expected to be involved. There is no writer attached to the project yet, nor has Lionsgate sought out a potential…

Lionsgate has partnered with Tiicker, a pioneering platform for cultivating shareholder loyalty, to offer retail investors discounts and gifts around the studio's film and TV brands. The goal is to turn individual fans of its franchises into stockholders. The studio is the first Hollywood partner of…

Autograph, an NFT platform co-founded by Tom Brady, has set strategic partnerships with Lionsgate and DraftKings, and inked NFT deals with iconic athletes now joining its advisory board, including Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, Derek Jeter, Naomi Osaka and Tony Hawk. NFT stands for non-fungible token, a kind of unique…

Gregory Tyree Boyce, who played Tyler Crowley in Twilight, was found dead last week along with his girlfriend in a Las Vegas condominium, local police told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was 30. Few details were announced, but Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield told the paper that Boyce and…

Midnight Sun, the hotly anticipated Stephenie Meyer Twilight follow novel will be out August 4, the writer revealed on her website Monday and in a clip on Good Morning America. Arriving 15 years after the original installment of the smash hit book and film series, Midnight Sun revisits the Twilight saga from the point…

Lionsgate Entertainment World, the studio's first Asian theme park, opened its doors today in Hengqin, China. Featuring over 30 attractions, it includes seven based on The Hunger Games, Twilight, the Divergent series, Now You See Me, Gods Of Egypt and Escape Plan. Each of the properties is well known in China, with…

Lionsgate will revive its $3.3 billion grossing Twilight Saga franchise, with a Twilight live-to-film world tour that will begin in Brazil this August, followed by stops in Australia and the UK. The event will feature a full orchestra performing Carter Burwell's original film score timed to a screening of the first…

Actress Susan Sarandon claims she once suffered an incident akin to the recent Mark Wahlberg/Michelle Williams salary disparity issue, wherein male colleagues were paid more for equal work. In an interview with BBC 5 live, Sarandon said she discovered that Paul Newman and Gene Hackman, her two male co-stars on the…

Twilight producer Marty Bowen shifts to real life youngsters in the feature documentary The Roughnecks, the chronicle of an emotional season in the life of a Texas pee-wee football team that The Orchard has scooped up for a 2015 digital release. Pic is co-directed and co-produced by Richard Cameron White (The Sleeping…

8:50AM: The domestic opening day estimate for Mockingjay  – Part 1 looks to be $55M, the highest opening day of 2014 and the sixth highest single day bow in November. 2009’s Twilight Saga: New Moon owns the month’s record at $72.7M. Again, that’s a healthy number.  Exhibs should be happy, seeing spillover into…