Lionsgate is again in enterprise with Quentin Tarantino.
The Hollywood studio introduced on Thursday it has picked up the distribution rights to a few of his basic motion pictures, Kill Invoice: Quantity I and II and Jackie Brown.
Moreover the re-release of these iconic titles, Lionsgate will group with Tarantino to have a good time Kill Invoice’s 20th anniversary later this yr with a brand new and remastered 4K version. The studio has lengthy ties to the director behind a number of the most basic motion pictures of the previous three many years, Pulp Fiction and As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood amongst them.
“Starting with Reservoir Canines, a Lionsgate library favourite for practically 20 years, we’ve grown what’s now Hollywood’s largest portfolio of Tarantino movies to incorporate Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Dying Proof along with the films we simply picked up,” Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer advised analysts on Thursday throughout a name following the discharge of his firm’s fourth-quarter earnings.
“It was an actual coup for us to get the three Quentin Tarantino motion pictures. We’ve eight, which actually provides our library a novel state of affairs in Hollywood. And we’re going to reap the benefits of that,” Jim Packer, president of worldwide TV and digital distribution at Lionsgate, advised analysts in his personal tackle the three-picture distribution deal.
Tarantino is now prepping The Film Critic, the identify of the script that the filmmaker wrote and is about to direct this fall. Logline particulars are being stored beneath wraps, however the film is believed to be set in late Nineteen Seventies Los Angeles, with a feminine lead at its middle.
Tarantino has not but lined up a studio accomplice for his 10th movie, which might put Lionsgate in line to take that function.
