As a studio, Lionsgate is responsible for some of the biggest hits of the last few decades, but you might not even realize it. You don’t even have to go back further than late 2025 to remember that Lionsgate had one of the biggest hits of the year with The Housewifethe star-studded erotic thriller Sydney Sweeney, Brandon Sklenarand Amanda Seyfried. The film generated over $400 million at the global box office against a $30 million budget, making it one of the most profitable films of the 2020s. Back in the mid-2010s, Lionsgate was also responsible The Hunger Games franchise, which collectively earned billions at the box office. Lionsgate is also behind the next one Hunger Games movie, The sunrise on the harvestwhich hits theaters on November 20.
One aspect of distribution where Lionsgate has excelled recently is providing some of its biggest property-level changes. The Hunger Games: On Stage in London now in their second successful year, Now you see me begins a run on Broadway this fall, and the popularity Ryan Gosling and Emma Stonedirected film, The Landalso gets a phase change. However, Lionsgate has an even more exciting expansion in the works, including its latest release, Dirty Dancing: The Musicwhich is scheduled to begin on Broadway on February 12, 2027. This comes after the play, which first opened in 2004, has recently been a huge success, and will officially begin a run on Broadway to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Gala performances are also set for March 14, 2027and Limited Participation performances run through September 5, 2027, at the Lena Horne Theater.
Collider Exclusive · 8 questions · 2 minutes Who is famous Music Video Would you star? Thriller · Take On Me · Sabotage · Women’s Singles
Eight honest questions about how you really are: how you feel about a camera, what’s your party trick, how much do you like to work, what kind of attention do you like. Answer them and we’ll tell you which bullet you’re on. Four of the most famous videos ever made are cast, and each one requires a completely different person.
🧟Thriller(Michael Jackson)
✏️Take Me(ha-ha)
🚔Sabotage(Beastie Boys)
💍Single Women(Beyonce)
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How do you feel about filming? Most people have a very specific response to this.
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What’s your real party trick? Everyone has one, including the naysayers.
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How do you feel about reporting something? This will decide what kind of set you would live.
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What movie would you most like to be in? Answer the one you would like to do.
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How do you feel about dressing up? Fancy clothes tell you everything about a person.
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What would you spend an incredible budget on? Someone just gave you much more than expected.
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What kind of attention do you really enjoy? Be honest, because everyone likes some of it.
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What would you like the video to be famous for? Eight questions in, this is the one that will raise your gaze.
Rolling You have starred in…
Four videos, four completely different jobs for whoever is on camera. Here’s your picture, what the director wanted from you, and why this one is still being copied decades later.
Michael Jackson · 1983 · Dir. John Landis
Thriller
You belong to the biggest production of the four, the one that stopped being a music video and became a short film. Fourteen minutes, a shockingly accurate director, prosthetics, a script and dance routines that people are still learning at weddings.
You want to play a character other than yourself, and you’d be happy to sit in a makeup chair for four hours to do it.
John Landis had just done An American Werewolf in London, which is why this sounds like a movie rather than a promo.
It was the first music video to be added to the National Film Registry, which is a sentence no one would have thought to write about a pop single.
The reason it still works is that it commits completely, and there is not one moment where anyone involved is ironic about it.
a-ha · 1985 · Dir. Steve Barron
Take Me
You belong in the most romantic video ever made, the one where a girl in a cafe is dragged into a pencil drawing. It’s a love story told in four minutes with almost no dialogue, and it still gets people the same way it did in 1985.
You respond to beauty before you respond to a scene, and you’d rather have one perfect image than ten tall heads.
The rotoscoping took months, with thousands of frames traced by hand, which is why nothing has matched the texture since.
The whole thing depends on one performance being sincere, and the video would crash immediately if someone stepped into the camera.
This is the rare video that people watch for the story rather than the song, and the ending is to blame.
Beastie Boys · 1994 · Dir. Spike Jonze
Sabotage
You belong in the funniest video on the list, a complete parody of a seventies cop show with fake mustaches, bad wigs and contrived character credits. No one involved is trying to look cool, which is why it’s the coolest thing here yet.
You’re at your best talking to people you like, and it shows on camera every time.
Spike Jonze was making videos before he made movies, and you can see his entire career start here.
The promise is the joke. Everyone plays it completely straight and the wigs do the rest of the work.
This is the one on the list that looks as fun as it was, and far away.
Beyonce · 2008 · Dir. Jake Nava
Single Women
You belong in the one with no set, no story and no place to hide. Three dancers, black and white, one room, and a routine so good that it made all the other videos that year look too much.
You would rather be judged on what you can do than on what anyone around you has built.
Removing everything is the boldest option on this list, because it only works if the execution is truly flawless.
The dance was instantly and endlessly copied, the clearest proof that video has ever done its job.
You’re the type of person who uses something into the ground and then makes it look like nothing.
What do we know about ‘Dirty Dancing: The Musical’?
Dirty Dancing: The Music directed by Lonny’s Pricewho is a two-time Tony Award winner for his work on Sunset Boulevard and Sweeney Todd. Price also played Neil Kellerman in the original film, and both his connection to the original film and his passion for this new version of Eleanor BergsteinIt’s a famous story. Darrell Grand Moultriewho is known for his work as a choreographer on Ham fat and Beyoncé’s World Tourwho is the principal choreographer for Dirty Dancing: The Music. The production will also allow 21 new rising stars to make their Broadway debut.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage Dirty Dancing: The Musicas well as other stage changes in the works at Lionsgate.
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