August 11, 2026

An activist investor says the market has decided Lionsgate is an AI casualty. It wants the studio to prove otherwise or sell.

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Activist investor Anson Funds is pressing Lionsgate to redefine itself for the AI era or put itself up for sale, according to a July letter to the board reviewed by Semafor. The argument turns on how the market reads a film library. “The rise of gene...