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EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega has boarded Lionsgate and Point Grey’s Miller’s Girl opposite Martin Freeman, Deadline has learned.

Lionsgate has landed the motion picture adaption of the hit Sega videogame phenomenon “Streets of Rage,” according to an individual with knowledge of the project.“John Wick” writer Derek Kolstad is penning the adaptation and producing alongside Sega’s Toru Nakahara, dj2 Entertainment’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Timothy I.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has acquired the feature adaptation of hit Sega video game Streets of Rage which John Wick franchise scribe Derek Kolstad is writing and producing alongside the videogame brand’s Toru Nakahara, dj2 Entertainment’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Timothy I. Stevenson, and Dan Jevons, and Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Tony Shaw. Deadline first told you about the project.

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson is in talks to join Lionsgate’s ensemble 1970s jukebox musical Sailing from Rock of Ages creator Chris D’Arienzo.

Lionsgate has acquired motion picture adaptation rights to Thieves’ Gambit, an upcoming young adult thriller novel by Kayvion Lewis that has been generating deals and buzz ahead if its planned fall 2023 publish date. Steven Caple Jr, whose directing credits include Creed 2 and the upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, is attached to helm.

Halle Berry has lined up another new movie to star in and it sounds so interesting!

EXCLUSIVE:  Lionsgate has picked up an action comedy pitch from writers Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Mamrie Hart for Zoë Bell to direct, inspired by the stuntwoman’s viral short film Boss Bitch Fight Challenge. 

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Lionsgate is working with Saturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones on an untitled Christmas comedy.

EXCLUSIVE:  Lionsgate has renewed its first-look film deal with 3Pas Studios, the production company run by producer Ben Odell and bilingual star Eugenio Derbez, Deadline has learned.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has purchased Homecoming, a screenplay which made the 2021 Black List, in a competitive situation, and is setting it up as a film.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterPatrick Hughes, director of the successful action-comedy franchise “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” is setting up his next project at Lionsgate.Variety can exclusively report that Hughes will write and direct “War Machine,” an action/sci-fi film about the final recruits of a grueling special ops boot camp who encounter a deadly force from beyond this world.Announced by Lionsgate president of production Erin Westerman, the project will be produced by Range Media

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has put Revenge Wedding, a new comedy, in the works with Jordan Schur of Suretone Pictures, Andrew O’Connor of What If It Barks Films, and Kristin Burr of BURR! Productions.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has attached Riverdale and I Still Believe star KJ Apa to star in West Pointer, a drama written and to be directed by Rod Lurie. Deal was put together by Erin Westerman, President of Production for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group.

EXCLUSIVE: After recently committing to Under Cover, Lionsgate has entered into a producing deal with actor-producer Cole Sprouse to develop a new unidentified project for the studio.

Josh Duhamel is stepping in to take the role opposite Jennifer Lopez in.

Josh Duhamel is stepping in for Armie Hammer.

Josh Duhamel is stepping in to take the role opposite Jennifer Lopez in.

Angelique Jackson Josh Duhamel better get his tux ready!Lionsgate announced on Tuesday that the actor is officially confirmed to star opposite Jennifer Lopez in the action comedy “Shotgun Wedding.”“We couldn’t be happier for our bride and groom of this ‘Shotgun Wedding,'” Erin Westerman, president of production for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said in a statement.

Update: Transformers star Josh Duhamel is officially boarding the Lionsgate Jennifer Lopez movie Shotgun Wedding. Jennifer Coolidge and Sonia Braga are also joining to respectively play the moms of Duhamel and Lopez’s characters.