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- In 1998, Lionsgate helped Guber form Mandalay Pictures with a 45% investment in Mandalay. Lionsgate followed that up with a June purchase of International Movie Group, Inc. (IMG), a bankrupt film distributor previously invested in by Guber and Yorktown Securities, for its film library.
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In 1998, Lionsgate helped Guber form Mandalay Pictures with a 45% investment in Mandalay. Lionsgate followed that up with a June purchase of International Movie Group, Inc. (IMG), a bankrupt film distributor previously invested in by Guber and Yorktown Securities, for its film library.
In June 1998, LGE purchased International Movie Group, whose film library included Jean-Claude Van Damme's Kickboxer. [ 7 ] Liongate's first major box office success was American Psycho in 2000, which began a trend of producing and distributing films too controversial for the major film studios. [ 12 ]
In June of 1998, Lions Gate completed another purchase, this time picking up a bankrupt film distributor called International Movie Group, Inc. (IMG). Ten years earlier IMG had received $14 million in financing from Frank Giustra and Yorktown Securities, but the company had gone belly up in 1996.
May 12, 2023 · Lionsgate ’s motion picture group has finished another restructuring under chairman Joe Drake, with the studio now unifying its film production and acquisition groups under one content banner...
Dec 22, 2023 · Lionsgate, the entertainment company behind blockbuster franchises such as the Hunger Games and Twilight, will carve out and list its studio business through a merger with a blank-cheque company...
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Dec 27, 2023 · Lionsgate has completed a $500 million deal to acquire certain assets of Entertainment One from Hasbro. The studio met a year-end deadline to pick up a content library of nearly 6,500 titles and...
Nov 1, 2023 · Lionsgate Motion Picture Group’s president of international Helen Lee-Kim discusses the company’s key franchises and the evolution of its theatrical distribution strategy.
