Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (commonly referred to as Lionsgate)
Is a North American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1997. It is the most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America. Lionsgate was founded in 1997 by Frank Giustra, who was a canadian investment banker. The company has bought a number of small production facilities and distributors. Recently, Lionsgate sold their subsidiary Maple Pictures to film distributor Alliance Films, which is based in Montreal, Canada. The company has 497 staff who work for them. The company had a revenue in 2010 of $1,584,000,000. Their company is worth $1,704,000,000.
Its first major box office success was American Psycho in 2000, which began a trend of producing and distributing films too controversial for the major American studios. These films include Affliction and Saw and the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which became the studio's highest grossing film. This studio is recognized for its role in a number of daytime TV programs. Lionsgate has a home video library of more than 8000 films with all of the former Artisan Entertainment releases (many the result of output deals with other studios), including such titles as Dirty Dancing, Earth Girls are Easy, Army of One, Total Recall, On Golden Pond, and the Rambo series.
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