Lions Gate Snatches Hostel

Fangoria has just learned that Screen Gems has handed over all rights to Hostel to Lions Gate. I thought that Hostel was already Lions Gates movie so this is sort of a surprise. I'm guessing that Sony saw the film and decided it was way to violent for them and passed it off to Lions Gate.

As we all know most big studios are going the PG-13 route much like Screen Gems has been doing. Lions Gate is the one distributor that will stand behind the hard R rated films and actually promote them very well. No word on what kind of release Hostel will get but hopefully it will see at least 1,500+.