Jason Constantine, Co-President of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, Dead at 55 | rssama.com

Jason Constantine, co-president of nan Lionsgate Motion Picture Group who has been pinch nan movie workplace for nan past 25 years, astir since nan company’s inception, has passed distant pursuing a agelong conflict pinch cancer. He was 55.

Constantine successful his clip pinch Lionsgate has overseen immoderate of nan studio’s biggest franchises, including “John Wick” and “Saw,” having pushed for nan second aft seeing conscionable a little conception short, and he’s been intimately associated pinch “The Expendables” and award-winning films for illustration “Crash,” “Precious,” “Knives Out,” “I Can Only Imagine,” and galore more. Constantine was elevated to nan co-president domiciled successful 2023.

“With his fearless spirit, imaginative energy, and enduring talent relationships, Jason embodied nan very champion of our workplace and our industry. His power will proceed to beryllium felt successful galore of our astir successful franchises,” Lionsgate said successful a statement. “His profession was built astir nan principles that a awesome thought tin travel from anywhere, a container agency triumph is meant to beryllium shared by an full team, and our imaginative choices request to beryllium bold and daring. We mourn nan passing of a highly respected executive, a trusted partner and a cherished friend, and we widen our deepest condolences to his woman Kristin, his 3 children and his full family.”

Constantine began his profession arsenic a inferior head of acquisitions astatine nan institution that preceded Lionsgate, Trimark Pictures, and he had been a passionate person of nan movies and being a portion of nan business from an early age. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.F.A successful movie accumulation from Loyola Marymount University. He wrote and directed 2 short films: a rom-com called “For Whom The Wedding Bell Tolls” and a play called “Ashes” that won a PGA grant for Best Student Short Film.

A “boombox” relationship has been group up for group to nonstop written stories and photos for the Constantine family. The family and workplace encourages group to upload immoderate written stories aliases photos to nan pursuing link here.

In lieu of flowers, the Constantine family requests those who wish to make gifts in Jason’s representation see backing nan encephalon crab investigation conducted by Jason’s neurosurgeons, led by Dr. Michael Lim, aliases Jason’s neuro-oncology squad astatine UCLA, led by Dr. Tim Cloughesy and Dr. Robert Chong.