Lions Gate to Film Food Fight Starring Duff Sisters

Posted on April 4, 2005

Less than a month after its formation, Lions Gate Family Entertainment> has announced its debut feature film project. Lions Gate will coproduce and has acquired the North American distribution rights to Foodfight!, a 3-D animated film from Larry Kasanoff's (True Lies, Mortal Kombat) Threshold Animation Studios. Foodfight! is slated for a nationwide Fall 2006 release. The announcement was made by newly-promoted Lions Gate Family Entertainment Executive Vice President Anne Parducci and Lions Gate Films Releasing President Tom Ortenberg. Currently in production, Foodfight! takes place after hours in a supermarket which comes to life as a city unto itself. Appearing together in the film are the voices of sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff who are recently starring together in the upcoming Material Girls. FOODFIGHT! is directed by Larry Kasanoff from a screenplay by Brent Friedman, Rebecca Swanson and Sean Derek, based on a story by Kasanoff and Joshua Wexler. Kasanoff and George Johnsen are producing; executive producers are Ortenberg and Wexler with Gregory Cascante and Daniel Suh as co-executive producers. Lions Gate Family Entertainment Executive Vice President Ken Katsumoto is overseeing the film for Lions Gate.

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