Jason Constantine, co-president of the Lionsgate Movement Image Group who has been with the movie studio for the final 25 years, almost because the firm’s inception, has handed away following a protracted combat with most cancers. He was 55.
In his time with Lionsgate Constantine has overseen among the studio’s largest franchises, together with “John Wick” and “Noticed,” having pushed for the latter after seeing only a transient idea brief, and he’s been intently related to “The Expendables” and award-winning movies like “Crash,” “Valuable,” “Knives Out,” “I Can Solely Think about,” and lots of extra. Constantine was elevated to the co-president function in 2023.
“Along with his fearless spirit, inventive power, and enduring expertise relationships, Jason embodied the easiest of our studio and our trade. His affect will proceed to be felt in a lot of our most profitable franchises,” Lionsgate mentioned in an announcement. “His profession was constructed across the ideas that a terrific concept can come from anyplace, a field workplace triumph is supposed to be shared by a complete staff, and our inventive decisions should be daring and daring. We mourn the passing of a extremely revered government, a trusted accomplice and a cherished pal, and we lengthen our deepest condolences to his spouse Kristin, his three youngsters and his total household.”
Constantine started his profession as a junior director of acquisitions on the firm that preceded Lionsgate, Trimark Footage, and he had been a passionate lover of the films and being part of the enterprise from an early age. He obtained his B.A. from Princeton College and his M.F.A in movie manufacturing from Loyola Marymount College. He wrote and directed two brief movies: a rom-com known as “For Whom The Wedding ceremony Bell Tolls” and a drama known as “Ashes” that received a PGA award for Greatest Pupil Brief Movie.
A “boombox” account has been arrange for individuals to ship written tales and photographs for the Constantine household. The household and studio encourages individuals to add any written tales or photographs to the next hyperlink right here.
In lieu of flowers, the Constantine household requests those that want to make presents in Jason’s reminiscence think about funding the mind most cancers analysis performed by Jason’s neurosurgeons, led by Dr. Michael Lim, or Jason’s neuro-oncology staff at UCLA, led by Dr. Tim Cloughesy and Dr. Robert Chong.