On November 9th, Lionsgate Entertainment had a conference call regarding their Q2 2024 Earnings.
Jon Feltheimer – CEO, Jimmy Barge – CFO, Michael Burns – COO, Kevin Beggs – Chariman of the Motion Picture Group, Nilay Shah, head of Investor Relations and Joe Drake, president of Worldwide TV discussed the foreplaning of the corporation and the future revenue coming into place during the Quarterly Calendar of April, May and June.
Jon Feltheimer confirmed that as the actor strike is over, they will finish team up production for several of their biggest fiscal earnings which includes Michael Jackson Biopic.
Later on in the conversation Joe Drake confirmed: “Just quickly on the Motion Picture side, we were able to strategically really get ahead of it. We were able to secure a number of waivers and really lined our productions up so that as soon as we came out of the strike, we could be running the Michael Jackson movie starts in January.”
The due release of the biopic is still unknown. Depending on how rapidly they can film and do the post-production, it seems that Lionsgate will be announcing the release date in the next coming months. Some sources say 2024, 2025 or 2026.
They also recently confirmed crew and staff on the biopic:
Robert Richardson will be in charge of the cinematography. Kimberly Hardin and Victoria
Thomas are in charge of the casting. The production design will be done by Academy Award winner, Barbara Ling. Visual effects will be attributed to Pasquale Antonelli and Wesley Barker.
More cast and crew will be announced soon.
