The companies will be rebranded as Starz Entertainment Corp. and Lionsgate Studios Corp. The post Lionsgate Studios and Starz Take Another Step Toward Separation With New Company Names appeared first on TheWrap.

Lionsgate moved a step closer to a planned split of the studio from Starz with an SEC filing today officially marking its plans. The long-in-the making transaction to create two separate publicly traded companies is set out in an official S4 document that needs to be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission if

Lionsgate (NASDAQ:LION) on Wednesday filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to separate its studios business, which encompasses the motion picture and television studio operations,