• 'Kick-Ass' slays 'Dragon' at box office

  Published on: April 19, 2010

  Lionsgate pic nabs $19.8 million to land at #1

  Despite preliminary reports, "Kick-Ass" took home the top spot at the domestic box office.Grossing $19.8 million, Lionsgate's superhero action pic edged DreamWorks Animation's 3D kid pic, "How to Train Your Dragon" ($19.6 million) in a closely contested race.

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• KICK-ASS is #1 Opening Weekend

  Published on: April 19, 2010

  Lionsgate
  Press Release

  SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LIONSGATE® (NYSE: LGF), the leading next generation studio, emerged from a neck-and-neck box office race to claim the #1 spot with its action/comedy Kick-Ass.  Director Matthew Vaughn's critically lauded, R-rated film took in $19,828,687 for the weekend, edging past the 3D animated family feature How to Train Your Dragon.  The latest release in Lionsgate's Tyler Perry franchise, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?, reached $54.8 million in its third week in release.  Lionsgate secured over 6,500 screens this past weekend, representing 16% of the North American marketplace.  

  Based on the groundbreaking, best-selling comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass stars Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong and Chloe Grace Moretz, and features Nicolas Cage.  The screenplay is written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman.  The producers are Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Tarquin Pack and Kris Thykier; Millar and Romita Jr. are co-producers.  Lionsgate acquired North American distribution rights for $15 million last year.  

  Said Joe Drake, Lionsgate Co-Chief Operating Officer and Motion Picture Group President, "Kick-Ass is fantastic, highly original entertainment, and our marketing and distribution teams have brilliantly positioned it for a long and successful run.  That kind of run is precisely what we are seeing on the international front, where Kick-Ass has demonstrated a very strong hold at the box office; in Great Britain alone, it's taken in nearly $13.8 million in 17 days."

  Lionsgate's upcoming releases include: Robert Luketic's romantic comedy Killers, starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl, opening June 4; Sylvester Stallone's action/thriller The Expendables, with an all-star cast including Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Eric Roberts and Mickey Rourke, opening August 13; and Daniel Stamm's horror movie The Last Exorcism, produced by Eli Roth (Hostel), starring Patrick Fabian and Ashley Bell, opening August 27.

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• LIVE STREAM from the ‘Kick-Ass’ Premiere Tonight, April 13th!

  Published on: April 13, 2010

  MySpace will be doing a live stream direct from tonight’s Hollywood premiere of Kick-Ass at 6pm PST! It will be streaming live from the Kick-Ass MySpace, Facebook, and Ustream page!
  
  Reviews have been glowing and people across the country are waiting anxiously to see it; certainly proving that Kick-Ass is one of the most anticipated releases of 2010!

  Only three more days to go so get your tickets now for Friday. If you really can’t wait, check your local theater listings to get tickets for the 10PM and midnight showings on Thursday, April 15th!

  Live TV : Ustream

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