Lionsgate Inks Deal With Nordisk Film

18 May, 2012 By: Erik Gruenwedel

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Lionsgate May 17 said it signed a long-term distribution deal with Nordisk Film, the studio behind original Swedish blockbusters The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.

Under the deal — finalized at the Cannes Film Festival — Lionsgate extends an existing deal between Summit Entertainment and Nordisk to now include the entire Lionsgate feature film slate for theatrical and home entertainment distribution in Scandinavia.

The upcoming Lionsgate/Summit slate includes Lionsgate’s Catching Fire, the next installment in “The Hunger Games” blockbuster franchise; Sam Raimi’s The Possession; The Last Stand, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; and the new Dirty Dancing film; as well as Summit’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, the fifth installment in a franchise that has already grossed more than $2.5 billion worldwide; Step Up Revolution; The Impossible; Red 2; Now You See Me; and The Tomb, pairing Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

“The recent merger of Lionsgate and Summit allows us to bring a dramatically expanded portfolio of product to our distribution partners around the world and enables us to achieve significant economies of scale and an even higher level of consistency and predictability in our global business,” Lionsgate motion picture group co-chairs Patrick Wachsberger and Rob Friedman said in a statement.

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