The 'John Wick' and 'Hunger Games' studio filed a registration with the SEC to complete a planned separation into two publicly traded companies ahead of a shareholders vote.

Lionsgate filed with the SEC on Thanksgiving week in another move to separate its Studios division from STARZ.

Lionsgate moved a step closer to a planned split of the studio from Starz with an SEC filing today officially marking its plans. The long-in-the making transaction to create two separate publicly traded companies is set out in an official S4 document that needs to be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission if

Lionsgate (NASDAQ:LION) on Wednesday filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to separate its studios business, which encompasses the motion picture and television studio operations,