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- 2. WHAT INSTITUTION WOULD MAKE MY FILM? • I have chosen after a lot of research, Lionsgate. Lionsgate actually made American psycho also and I feel that film is very similar to 'Blank Canvas' our film so they would know how to work well with our film and make it the best it can be. • 1. Lionsgate (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) is a Canadian-American film production/distribution studio and a division of Lions Gate Entertainment. It is the largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. • It focuses on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film series, including The Twilight Saga (partially), The Hunger Games, The Divergent Series, and The Expendables. • 2. New Line Cinema
- 3. HISTORY OF LIONSGATE • Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (or Lionsgate) is a Canadian-American entertainment company. • The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 3, 1997, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. • As of November 2013, it is the most commercially successful mini major film and television distribution company in North America and the seventh most profitable movie studio. • Lionsgate Films is not to be confused with Robert Altman's former company, Lion's Gate Films, although both names refer to the same Vancouver landmark, the Lions Gate bridge.
- 4. KEY PEOPLE IN LIONSGATE • Key People - • Frank Giustra – Founder – Chairman until 2003 • • Jon Feltheimer – Chief Executive – Since 2000 – Expanded to co-chairman in 2005 • • Michael Burns – joined in 1999 – Became vice-chairman in 2000
- 5. • FACTS ON LIONSGATE • Cinépix Film Properties was renamed Lions Gate Films on January 12, 1998. • LGE also purchased the Vancouver-based North Shore Studios, which became Lions Gate Studios. • In June 1998, LGE purchased International Movie Group, whose film library included Jean- Claude Van Damme's Kickboxer. • 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, including Lolita (1997). • Other notable films included Affliction (1997), Gods and Monsters (1998), Dogma (1999), Cube 2: Hypercube (2002), Saw (2004), and the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), which had been the studio's highest grossing film until the release of The Hunger Games in 2012. • • In 2000, Giustra left the firm and it was taken over by Jon Feltheimer and Tom Ortenberg. They decided to focus on the profits of videos and DVDs and began buying struggling firms that controlled large libraries. The two most notable acquisitions were Trimark Holdings (650 titles) in 2000 and Artisan Entertainment in 2003. • The Trimark purchase also included Cinema Now, a broadband streaming website, where Lionsgate could feature its own movies. These two along with other firms gave Lions Gate the second largest DVD library of any company, which includes Total Recall, Reservoir Dogs, On Golden Pond, Super Mario Bros., Young Guns, Dirty Dancing and It's a Wonderful Life, in some cases via output deals with Studio Canal, ITC/Carlton, and Republic Pictures (the result of prior licensing deals with Lions Gate's home video predecessor Artisan).
- 6. MORE FACTS ON LIONSGATE • • Lions Gate occasionally co-produces films with major studios. For example, Lions Gate teamed with Miramax Films for the 2004 sequel Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and with Paramount Pictures for 2002's Narc and 2004's The Prince & Me. Lions Gate was also a silent partner in 20th Century Fox's 2004 sci-fi film The Day After Tomorrow. And also in 2004, for the first time ever, Lions Gate joined forces with independent rival United Artists in producing Hotel Rwanda.
- 7. MORE INFO LIONSGATE • Lionsgate has grown to make more than just independent films in many different markets – films, television shows, video, record label and music publishing • Grown to become a nearly $2 billion diversified global entertainment corporation • Leading next generation film studio • Most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America, as of 2012 • Lions Gate has plans to begin working on creating original series • Possibility of creating a Hunger Games theme park – Similar to WizardingWorld of Harry Potter theme park
- 8. OUR FILM AND LIONSGATE • We feel Lionsgate is a very diverse production company and our film is anything but the norm.We also would want a big name behind our film like Lions Gate but as it specialises in block busters such as Hunger games we would want that to project onto our film too. • We want our film to become a cult classic such as American psycho and we really feel this company would push us to the greatest advantage.
- 9. COMPANY PERSPECTIVES OF NEW LINE CINEMA •New Line Cinema is one of the largest independent producers, acquirers, and distributors of theatrical motion pictures in the world. Founded in 1967, today the studio has a domestic marketing and distribution organization; a home video division; a television production and distribution organization; an international division; and merchandising, music and new media subsidiaries that fully exploit New Line's film properties and franchises. New Line's programming refreshes AOLTime Warner's libraries and provides valuable programming for its cable networks, in particular TNT,TBS and HBO.
- 10. KEY DATES OF NEW LINE CINEMA • 1967: • Company is founded by Robert Shaye in NewYork, with a $1,000 initial investment. • 1984: • New Line releases first Nightmare on Elm Street movie. • 1986: • Company goes public. • 1994: • New Line is acquired by Turner Broadcasting System. • 1996: • Turner Broadcasting is acquired by Time Warner. • 2000: • Time Warner merges with America Online to form AOL Time Warner. • 2001: • New Line releases first of three epic Lord of the Rings movies.
- 11. HISTORY OF NEW LINE CINEMA • New Line Cinema, Inc. is a leading producer and distributor of films.The company made its reputation producing horror films and other low-budget niche movies. Its early hits were the Nightmare on Elm Street movies of the 1980s. Later, as a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting and then as a subsidiary of entertainment conglomerate AOLTime Warner, the company has produced films that rival major studio releases for production and advertising budgets. New Line operates a subsidiary company, Fine Line Features, which produces films for an art house audience.The company has a television arm, New Line Television, and a music division, New Line Music. New Line International Releasing coordinates publicity and marketing for New Line films overseas, where the company does substantial business.
- 12. NEW LINE CINEMA POPULAR MOVIES • New Line's success in the 1980s was closely tied to the popularity of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, of which there were six.The company promoted the films with personal appearances by actor Robert Englund, who played the burned and disfigured killer Freddy Krueger. Each succeeding film drew a large audience.The fourth in the series, the 1989 Dream Master grossed around $50 million in its first six months. By 1991, the combined Elm Street films had brought in some $500 million in worldwide sales. Even though New Line seemed to have an unstoppable product in the Elm Street series, the company did not deviate from its early financial strictness.The movies were all made for under $6 million. New Line timed the release of its films carefully, so that they did not compete with the major studios' big releases.Though a new Elm Street film in the late 1980s was bound to have a big opening because of its loyal following, New Line typically debuted during a dull time, such as at the end of summer, when no blockbusters were around to distract from it. • New Line Cinema went public in 1986, made newly visible by the first two Elm Street movies. Its revenues were $26.5 million that year.The company also branched into television. It produced Freddy's Nightmares with Lorimar Telepictures.The show was hosted by actor Englund, though New Line was careful to monitor how much the Freddy character appeared on the show, so as not to dilute his popularity.The arrangement with Lorimar meant that company took the financial risk, and New Line and Lorimar split the profits from syndication of the series. • New Line had more than Freddy Krueger in its arsenal.The company bought the rights to the 1974 horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for $75,000 and in 1986 put out a sequel,The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.This was followed by the 1990 film Leatherface:Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.These were, like the Elm Street films, produced on a relatively low budget and geared towards a youthful audience.The company also produced other movies similar to what it distributed in the 1970s to college campuses. New Line produced Torch Song Trilogy in 1988.This was a movie by Harvey Fierstein, based on his Broadway play about a drag queen. New Line managed to keep production costs for this film down to only about $5 million. Other films the company produced were equally low-budget, and an eclectic mix. New Line produced children's films, such as Babar:The Movie and Suburban Commandos, assorted horror films, and softer movies such as Torch Song Trilogy that looked for an art house audience.
- 13. SIMILARITIES WITH NEW LINE CINEMA AND OUR FILM • New line cinema feels like another very good fit for our film as ours is following the same type of storyline as New Line Cinemas two most famous films,A night mare on elm street and Texas Chainsaw Massacre too cult classics. Both follow the structure of A serial killer with a number of murders under the belt so I feel like new line cinemas would be the perfect company to distribute our film and be very helpful in making our film th best it can be.