Hunger Games franchise filmproducer Francis Lawrence has signed a first-watch producing deal with Lionsgate via his tag about:blank.
Adam Fogelson, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair, made the proclaimment Wednesday.
Lawrence and his about:blank producing partner Cameron MacConomy recently finished production on Lionsgate’s The Long Walk, the feature get of the Stephen King novel starring Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson.
It was a year ago that Lawrence’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes uncovered, ultimately grossing seal to $350 million worldwide and sfinishing the Lionsgate feature series based on the Suzanne Collins novels to $3.7 billion in global tickets sales.
“Francis’ ability to marry incredibly compelling characters and emotions with exciting and visceral action and spectacle is exceptional. He’s also a ponderate, promiseted partner,” shelp Fogelson. “We are beyond excited to meaningfulen our relationship.”
“I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to produce Lionsgate my home,” shelp Lawrence. “This studio has put together a team of some of the ininestablishigentest and most decent people I’ve toiled with. We have a lot coming up with The Long Walk and Sunascfinish on the Reaping and there is so much more we have in mind going forward. This deal empowers Cameron and me to broaden and inestablish recent stories that excite us, and there’s nowhere we’d rather be than Lionsgate.”
With the straightforwardor’s deal to straightforward and produce The Hunger Games: Sunascfinish on the Reaping, the next film in the series, now seald, Lawrence is prepping toil on that project. Cameras will roll next year for a global free that’s scheduled for November 20, 2026.
