Maple Pictures
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Type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Motion picture |
Founded | April 13, 2005 |
Defunct | August 10, 2011 |
Fate | Acquisition |
Headquarters | New York , USA |
Products | DVDs |
Parent | Lionsgate (2005–2011) Alliance Films (2011) |
Website | [dead link] |
Maple Pictures Corporation was the distribution arm of Alliance Films. It was formed on April 13, 2005 when Lionsgate demerged to two companies—Lions Gate Entertainment and Maple Pictures (formerly the original Lionsgate Films).[1][2][3] Maple Pictures was the official distributor for Lionsgate's films and video library throughout Canada.
Background[]
The company describes itself as a "genre-savvy independent film company making a mark on the industry through its grassroots acquisition, production and distribution of diverse and distinctive filmed entertainment". Maple also has an extensive home video catalogue, which was built up largely by Lions Gate Entertainment's acquisition of several other independent studios. Their logo from 2005 depicts the company's name smothered in concentric circles & rings, whose font is set in Helvetica Bold.
Maple even used to distribute LeapFrog kids' DVDs.
In 2008, Maple Pictures acquired the rights to distribute Miramax films which Alliance Films lost acquisition to earlier in 2007. On August 10, 2011, Alliance Films bought Maple Pictures from Lions Gate Entertainment (Maple's former owner) for a sum of 38.5 million dollars.[4] On January 9, 2013, Entertainment One acquired Alliance,[5] and then on December 30, 2019, American toy and media company Hasbro (after having tried and failed to acquire Lionsgate) acquired eOne. This made Hasbro the corporate parent of Maple Pictures, which it remains to this day.
Television DVD Releases[]
- Mad Men
- Weeds
- Nurse Jackie
- Crash
- Tyler Perry's House of Payne
- Saved by the Bell (Universal Television)
- Will & Grace (Universal Television)
- According to Jim (ABC Studios)
- Reaper (ABC Studios)
- My Wife & Kids (ABC Studios)
- ALF
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Dead Zone
- Saturday Night Live (Universal Television)
- Unsolved Mysteries
- Iron Chef
Films released[]
- Dirty Dancing
- Basic Instinct
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Bad Boys
- Reservoir Dogs
- Rambo
- The Eye
- Bug
- Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
- The Descent
- Death of a President
- Saw
- Saw II
- Saw III
- Saw IV
- Saw V
- Saw VI
- March of the Penguins
- Employee of the Month
- The U.S. Versus John Lennon
- The Devil's Rejects
- House of 1000 Corpses
- The Descent
- The Devil's Rejects
- Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
- Crank
- Employee of the Month
- Good Luck Chuck
- The U.S. Versus John Lennon
- See No Evil
- Mistress of Spices
- Dreamland
- Natural Born Killers
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Crash
- W.
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Bank Job
- Punisher: War Zone
- Young People Fucking
- The Forbidden Kingdom
- Meet The Browns
- Doubt
- Transporter 3
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- The Spirit
- Choke
- Repo! The Genetic Opera
- My Best Friend's Girl
- Bangkok Dangerous
- Hulk Vs
- The Lucky Ones
- The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
- My Bloody Valentine 3D
- Adventureland
- Pontypool
- Crank: High Voltage
- The Haunting in Connecticut
- Hunger
- Gamer
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Whatever Works
- Kick-Ass
- The Switch
- The Expendables
- Saw 3D
- The Con Artist
- Burke and Hare
- Buried
- Hard Candy
References[]
- ^ "Market News" Lions Gate Forms Maple Pictures Spin Off marketnews.ca, Retrieved on July 20, 2013
- ^ Vlessing, Etan (April 28, 2011). "Lionsgate Sale of Maple Pictures Stake in the Works". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ^ Lions Gate spins off Canadian distribution, production screendaily.com, Retrieved on July 20, 2013
- ^ Etan Vlessing (June 21, 2011). "Analysts Welcome Lionsgate Selling Maple Pictures to Alliance Films". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Tartaglione, Nancy. EOne Completes Alliance Films Acquisition; Victor Loewy, Charles Layton Exit. Deadline Hollywood (January 9, 2012)
External links[]
- Maple Pictures Corp. official website (dead link)
- Maple Pictures at IMDb
- Maple Pictures's channel on YouTube
- Entertainment One
- Lionsgate
- Former Lionsgate subsidiaries
- Home video companies of Canada
- Mass media companies established in 2005
- Mass media companies disestablished in 2011
- Film distributors of Canada
- 2011 mergers and acquisitions