{"id":34399,"date":"2013-01-17T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=34399"},"modified":"2013-01-17T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:01:08","slug":"lionsgate-plan-new-low-budget-horror-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/lionsgate-plan-new-low-budget-horror-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionsgate plan new low-budget horror arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_34406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34406\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/34399\/lionsgate-plan-new-low-budget-horror-arm\/attachment\/engine_lionsgate_main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34406\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-34406\" title=\"Lionsgate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/engine_lionsgate_main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/engine_lionsgate_main.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/engine_lionsgate_main-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/engine_lionsgate_main-616x334.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lionsgate logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><em>Saw<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/33638\/texas-chainsaw-3d-film-review\/\"><em>Texas Chainsaw 3D <\/em><\/a>distributors Lionsgate have announced a new low-budget division aimed at producing films for under $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt spurred on by the massive amount of money they recoup from these low budget horror film goldmines (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/33921\/texas-chainsaw-3d-could-get-6-sequels-sorry\/\"><em>Texas Chainsaw 3D<\/em> made its budget back and more in its opening weekend<\/a> while the <em>Saw<\/em> franchise has made roughly $800 million), <a title=\"Variety\" href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118064749\/\">Variety<\/a> have announced that Lionsgate are looking to find comedy and horror films that can be made within that limited budget.<\/p>\n<p>The division is spearheaded by John Sacchi who produced massive money-makers <em>My Bloody Valentine 3D<\/em> and <em>The Possession<\/em>. Fingers crossed that this means we&#x2019;ll get some great new low-budget horror.<\/p>\n<p>Lionsgate did us all a favour by rescuing Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard&#x2019;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/31957\/the-cabin-in-the-woods-monsters-behind-the-scenes-exclusive\/\"><em>The Cabin In The Woods<\/em><\/a> from MGM&#x2019;s bankrupt purgatory and releasing it last year. You can <a title=\"The Cabin in the Woods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cabin-Woods-Blu-ray-Drew-Goddard\/dp\/B009KPX1BQ\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1358422960&sr=8-2&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy The Cabin In The Woods on Blu-ray for &#xA3;15.00 on Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio sets up a division for horror and comedies under $2.5 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":34406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[797,2782],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/engine_lionsgate_main.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}