Lionsgate Rebounds With $906 Million in Revenue Thanks to ‘The Housemaid’
Lionsgate has reported a strong financial performance with $906 million in revenue, largely driven by the success of 'The Housemaid.' The company's film division saw a significant profit increase, and trailing library revenue reached $1 billion for the third consecutive quarter. CEO Jon Feltheimer expressed optimism about the company's future, highlighting the potential of upcoming releases like 'Michael.'
- ▪Lionsgate reported $906 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2026.
- ▪'The Housemaid' contributed to a 39% increase in film division profits, totaling $181 million.
- ▪The company achieved $1 billion in trailing 12-month library revenue for three straight quarters.
TheWrap files mainly under film tv. We currently carry 272 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | TheWrap |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/lionsgate-q1-2026-earnings-2/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 20:20:51 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T20:31:35.748Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T20:31:35.748Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 0NwhS6Ufuo3h |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Home > Industry News > Business Lionsgate Rebounds With $906 Million in Revenue Thanks to ‘The Housemaid’ “All of the pieces of our business are coming together,” CEO Jon Feltheimer says as studio reports $70 million in net income Jeremy Fuster May 21, 2026 @ 1:20 PM Share on Social Media Share on Facebook Share on X (formerly Twitter) Share on LinkedIn Share on Email “The Housemaid” boosted Lionsgate’s film division segment profit to $181 million, up by 39% Trailing 12-month library revenue hit $1 billion for the third straight quarter The second quarter of 2026 is likely to be even bigger with the release of “Michael,” which will cross $300 million in domestic grosses this weekend Thanks to its strengthening library revenue and the holiday box office and post-theatrical success of “The…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at TheWrap.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from TheWrap
