{"id":1961577,"date":"2025-08-15T06:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1961577"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:36:36","slug":"dune-prodco-legendary-entertainment-in-early-talks-to-acquire-lionsgate-studios-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dune-prodco-legendary-entertainment-in-early-talks-to-acquire-lionsgate-studios-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dune prodco Legendary Entertainment in early talks to acquire Lionsgate Studios | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple TV+\u2019s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

US studio Legendary Entertainment, whose credits include blockbusters Godzilla, Dune and A Minecraft Movie, is reportedly eyeing a deal to acquire Lionsgate Studios.<\/p>\n

According to Bloomberg, Legendary, which is backed by private equity group Apollo, is in the very early stages of exploring a deal. In the meantime, the plan is for the companies to collaborate on some features to see whether a tie-up would be viable.<\/p>\n

For Lionsgate, the deal comes just two months after it separated its studio operation from its streamer\/cablenet Starz.<\/p>\n

One of the primary reasons behind the spin-off was to create new opportunities for M&A activity. Lionsgate is wasting no time in exploring potential deals and reports of these talks could encourage other potential suitors to come forward.<\/p>\n

Lionsgate Studios officially launched on the New York Stock Exchange on May 9, with shares trading at US$7.22. However, market reaction has been lukewarm so far, as shares fell under US$6 last month. Following the Bloomberg report on Friday, Lionsgate Studios\u2019 shares jumped 20% to US$7.<\/p>\n

For Legendary Entertainment, the talks come around nine months after it bought out the stake<\/a> in the company held by Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group. Legendary is now owned by company management and funds managed by Apollo, which made a US$760m minority equity investment in Legendary in 2022.<\/p>\n

Legendary was also at one point linked with a potential bid, alongside Apollo, to acquire Paramount Global, though it was eventually sold to Skydance in a deal that is still awaiting regulatory approval.<\/p>\n

The studio\u2019s TV credits include Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+), which is currently being expanded with several spin-offs in the works; Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (Netflix); and Drops of God (Apple TV+).<\/p>\n

The Legendary-Lionsgate talks are taking place at a time when it appears many deals could be in the offing.<\/p>\n

Both Warner Bros Discovery and NBCUniversal are spinning of their cable assets into new companies, setting themselves up for potential deals, while it emerged last week that A+E Global Media has been put up for sale<\/a> by its 50-50 joint owners Disney and Hearst Communications.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.c21media.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple TV+\u2019s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters US studio Legendary Entertainment, whose credits include blockbusters Godzilla, Dune and A Minecraft Movie, is reportedly eyeing a deal to acquire Lionsgate Studios. According to Bloomberg, Legendary, which is backed by private equity group Apollo, is in the very early stages of exploring a deal. In the meantime, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1961578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dune-prodco-Legendary-Entertainment-in-early-talks-to-acquire-Lionsgate.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}