
知情人士透露,传奇影业已重启收购狮门影业公司的谈判,并提交了收购要约。
Entertainment has revived talks to acquire Lionsgate Studios Corp. and submitted a takeover offer, according to people familiar with the matter.
彭博社当时报道,这家《沙丘》和《哥斯拉》系列电影的制片公司去年曾考虑竞购狮门影业。上述知情人士称,此后双方就潜在交易进行了断断续续的谈判。因信息未公开,这些人士要求匿名。传奇影业由阿波罗全球管理公司及公司管理层共同持有。传奇影业、狮门影业和阿波罗的代表均拒绝置评。
The producer of the and film franchises had weighed making a bid for Lionsgate last year, Bloomberg reported at the time. Since then, the two parties have held on-and-off talks about a potential deal, said the people, who asked not to be named as the information is private. Legendary is owned by Apollo Global Management Inc. and company management. Representatives for Legendary, Lionsgate and Apollo declined to comment.
若合并成功,传奇影业将获得狮门影业庞大的电影和电视片库,其中包括《疾速追杀》和《暮光之城》等作品,该片库年收入约10亿美元。合并还将为传奇影业提供院线发行网络。自2025年9月起,传奇影业的影片——包括刚刚上映的《沙丘3》——根据一项多年协议由天空之舞公司旗下的派拉蒙影业负责发行。
A merger would give Legendary ownership of Lionsgate’s vast film and TV library, which includes titles such as and and generates roughly $1 billion in annual revenue. It would also provide Legendary with a theatrical distribution network. Since September 2025, Legendary’s pictures — including the just-released — have been distributed by Skydance Corp.’s Paramount Pictures as part of a multiyear pact.
去年5月,狮门影业完成了与流媒体服务及电视网络Starz娱乐公司的分拆,后者是狮门影业于2016年收购的。分拆后的独立公司市值约32亿美元,债务约19亿美元。
In May of last year, Lionsgate completed a separation from streaming service and television network Starz Entertainment Corp., which it had acquired in 2016. The standalone company has stock market value of about $3.2 billion and $1.9 billion in debt.