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Hunger Games film studio Lionsgate partners with Finland's Next Games

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Lionsgate, the film studio that made The Hunger Games and Divergent movies, has formed a strategic partnership with Finnish mobile games developer Next Games and will make an investment in the startup’s financing round.

Peter Levin, president of interactive ventures and games at Santa Monica, Calif.-based Lionsgate, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the move is part of the movie studio’s recently announced expansion into gaming. In April, Levin joined Lionsgate to lead game deals based on Lionsgate’s intellectual property.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.