Lionsgate Movies Are About to Be All Over Amazon Prime Video
Brian Welk
Lionsgate‘s upcoming movies are going to get a big streaming boost very soon. Amazon has struck a multi-year agreement with Lionsgate to make as many as 20 Lionsgate theatrical releases available to U.S. customers on Prime Video each year.
The deal will include Lionsgate’s entire theatrical slate for 2026, a package of films from 2025, and Amazon will also commit to license older Lionsgate library titles for streaming. The movies will first land exclusively on Lionsgate’s own STARZ streaming platform immediately following its theatrical run, and Prime Video will then have its own exclusive streaming window shortly after that. A specific length for the window was not specified.
The 2026 Lionsgate slate includes “Now You See Me 3” and the next “Hunger Games” movie “Sunrise on the Reaping,” which is coming out November 20, 2026. Each of those titles will, through this agreement, be available for streaming only on Prime Video. In terms of older library titles for licensing, Amazon can pick and choose between “John Wick,” “Saw,” “Twilight,” “Divergent,” and other franchises.
It’s unclear which 2025 movies will land on Amazon, but Lionsgate has the Mark Wahlberg thriller “Flight Risk” in theaters now, as well as the “John Wick” spinoff movie “Ballerina,” “Saw XI,” the Keanu Reeves and Aziz Ansari comedy “Good Fortune,” and the Michael Jackson biopic “Michael.”
While Amazon won’t mind the exclusivity, the output deal is a big get for Lionsgate in increasing the movies’ footprint and reach. Sony movies, for instance, have a streaming window exclusively on Netflix, where even those that floundered at the box office tend to get a big Netflix boost. STARZ in particular only has 24 million subscribers between the streaming platform and linear cable users, according to Liosngate’s most recent earnings. The company is also in the process of spinning off STARZ from its larger film and TV studio business.
“We know that Prime members love great movies, and as a first-stop entertainment destination, we are excited to bring Lionsgate’s terrific slate of entertaining films to Prime Video soon after their theatrical release,” said Brad Beale, Vice President, Worldwide Licensing and Distribution for Prime Video. “The combination of Lionsgate’s films along with the exciting premium entertainment from Amazon MGM Studios and our studios partners ensure that Prime Members will always have something compelling to stream, directly on Prime Video.”
“We’re delighted to bring to our partners at Amazon early access to go-forward slates of commercially exciting movies driven by world-class filmmakers and cast,” said Lionsgate President of Worldwide Television Distribution Jim Packer. “This agreement unlocks significant incremental value for our slate while affirming the great popularity of Lionsgate movies among an ever-expanding portfolio of buyers.”
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