Hunger Games feeds Lionsgate’s bottom line; Q3 profit more than doubles

VANCOUVER – Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF) says boffo box office from hit films like “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” contributed to record quarterly revenue and a more than doubling of its profit in the third quarter.Lionsgate, based in Santa Monica, Calif., but with significant operations in Vancouver, says revenue was up 13 per cent at US$839.9 million in the three months ended Dec. 31. Net income was $88.8 million, or 59 cents per diluted share, up from $37.8 million, or 27 cents in the same year-earlier period.