Adam Fogelson is seizing his moment. The chair of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group is coming off a string of major hits, including the threequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t ($243.7 million worldwide on a $90 million budget) and the franchise starter The Housemaid ($398 million on a $35 million budget). The success feels affirming, with his slate still in its nascent stages; it only officially launched in September with the critical darling The Long Walk, from Hunger Games franchise director Francis Lawrence (returning for the upcoming new installment Sunrise on the Reaping).
It’s good timing, too, since Fogelson stepped in to lead the motion picture group in January 2024 — after which the studio dropped some high-profile disappointments that spelled trouble. The video game adaptation Borderlands cratered. The Crow did not fly. The John Wick universe extension Ballerina didn’t wind up extending much at all.
But Fogelson is
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