| Lionsgate Public | |
| Traded as | NYSE: LGF |
|---|---|
| Industry | Motion pictures, television programming, home video, family entertainment, Video on demand, digital distribution, music, & music publishing |
| Founded | July 3, 1997 (Vancouver, British Columbia as Lions Gate Films) |
| Founder(s) | Frank Giustra |
| Headquarters | Santa Monica, California, United States |
| Area served | North America United Kingdom France Australasia |
| Key people | Mark Rachesky (Chairman) Jon Feltheimer (CEO) Michael Burns (Vice Chairman) |
| Revenue |  US$2.078 billion (FY 2013) |
| Operating income | US$273.1 million (FY 2013) |
| Net income | US$232.1 million (FY 2013) |
| Total assets | US$2.761 billion (FY 2013) |
| Total equity | US$53.559 million (FY 2011) |
| Employees | 636 |
| Divisions | Lionsgate Films Lionsgate Home Entertainment Lionsgate Music & Publishing Lionsgate Television |
| Subsidiaries | Celestial Tiger Entertainment (Joint venture) Debmar-Mercury Mandate Pictures Pantelion Films Roadside Attractions Sea to Sky Entertainment Summit Entertainment TVGN (joint venture) Epix (joint venture) CodeBlack Films (joint venture) |
| Website | www.lionsgate.com |
History
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (LGE) was formed in 1997 by Frank Giustra with a $16 million investment including another $40 million from other investors including Keyur Patel and Yorkton Securities, an investment bank that specialized in funding mining ventures that Giustra was CEO. He then merged the company with Toronto Stock Exchange listed Beringer Gold Corp. (founded in 1986) to take the company public. Beringer's mining assets were soon sold off.Lionsgate then began a series of acquisitions to get into the film industry. The company bought a number of small production facilities and distributors, starting with Montreal-based Cinépix Film Properties (renamed as Lions Gate Films) and North Shore Studios (renamed Lions Gate Studios) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mandalay Television was acquired by LGE from Peter Guber for a 4% LGE stake. In 1998, LGE 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. IMG's CEO Peter Strauss became president of Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc., its U.S. holding company. Lions Gate Media subsidiary was also formed to produce for television.
Completing its first year of operation, LGE had revenue of $42.2 million with loss of $397 thousand. The company share price dropped to a low of $1.40. This limited the corporation's ability to make acquisitions via stock swaps. Lions Gate instead made its next acquisition of Termite Art Productions, a reality-based television production company, for $2.75 million by issuing three convertible promissory notes. Giustra had the shareholders vote to move the company's public listing from the Toronto Stock Exchange to the American Stock Exchange, along with a two-for-one stock consolidation to qualify, for greater exposure that might boost share value.
In January 1999, Roman Doroniuk was named president and chief operating officers of LGE which led to the corporation's financial operations being moved in April to Doroniuk's offices in Toronto while corporate headquarters remained in Vancouver. LGE created US based Avalanche Films and acquired half of Sterling Home Entertainment, both in video sales. Again, Lionsgate registered losses in its second year of $9.3 million on revenues of $78.3 million with most of the losses were from its stake in Mandalay Pictures. Thus in the summer, LGE placed its studios up for sale with no buyers. TV operations were changed to non-network hour-long series over riskier network shows and ended its relationship with Mandalay Television. The corporation sought out more capital and cash with a filing of a preliminary prospectus for the sale of preferred stock and common stock warrants and a $13.4 million line of credit.
Hunger Games Catching Fire
Synopsis
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safely after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way, Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell), a competition that could change Panem forever.
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Film 4 Productions
Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter, directed by Stephen Frears, which was released in 1982.
Prior to 1998, the company was identified as Channel Four Films or FilmFour International. Later, the outfit was re-branded as FilmFour, to coincide with the launch of a new Digital TV channel of the same name. The company cut its budget and staff significantly in 2002, due to mounting losses, and was re-integrated into the drama department of Channel 4.
In 2004, Tessa Ross became head of both Film4 and Channel 4 drama. The name "Film4 Productions" was introduced in 2006 to tie in with the relaunch of the FilmFour broadcast channel as Film4.
How I Live Now
Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now stars Saoirse Ronan as Daisy, a teenager from New York who’s sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war.
Daisy (Saoirse Ronan), a neurotic but strong-willed New York City teenager, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with her British cousins, Edmond (George MacKay), Isaac (Tom Holland) and Piper (Harley Bird). News reports playing as she arrives in the United Kingdom reveal a worsening political crisis across the world. Although initially reluctant to interact with them, Daisy finds herself warming up upon learning that her deceased mother used to stay there frequently. She also falls in love with Eddie, her eldest cousin, finding him to be as introverted and strong-willed as her. A few days after her arrival, her aunt flies to Geneva to attend an emergency conference, and the group take advantage of her absence to explore their local woodlands.
However, Daisy's perfect summer is shattered when an unspecified enemy detonate a nuclear bomb in London, killing hundreds of thousands, and causing a nuclear fallout as far away as their home. Shortly after, a member of the US Consulate in Edinburgh arrives at the house, and tells Daisy that the United States is recalling its citizens in the United Kingdom, before giving her papers to grant her passage home. He advises her cousins to remain indoors and wait for evacuation, so they decide to move to shelter in a nearby barn. After having sex with Eddie, Daisy decides that, whatever happens, she would rather stay with them, and burns her travel documents. The next day, however, the shelter is stormed by the British Army, who take them to an evacuation camp. Daisy and Piper learn that they are to be conscripted as farm laborers, while Isaac and Eddie are to be conscripted into the army. Both Eddie and Daisy resist separation, and Daisy is eventually restrained with cable ties, while Eddie calls to her to return to their home when she gets the chance. Daisy and Piper are then taken to the home of an Army Major and his wife, who will be fostering them, and whose son is fighting in the war. Determined to escape, Daisy discreetly begins hoarding supplies, but as she is about to do so, the camp is attacked by the enemy, and Daisy doesn't have time to take everything she needs before she and Piper are forced to run. Upon stopping, Daisy discovers that she forgot their water purification tablets, forcing them to conserve their remaining water.
As Daisy and Piper hike through the countryside, Daisy finds herself dreaming of Eddie constantly, and interprets them as indications of his current situation. One night, she and Piper witness members of the enemy violently gang-raping a group of survivors in a camp, and helplessly watch as a battered woman is dragged off, before fleeing. Already disturbed by this experience, they happen upon the camp where Isaac and Eddie were taken, and discover that there has been a massacre of its occupants. Daisy is reluctantly forced to look through the bodies to see if anyone they know is among them and, although Eddie isn't among the dead, Isaac is. She mournfully takes his glasses with her, and later buries them under a tree. As they leave, they are spotted by two enemy combatants, who chase them through the woods. Deciding that they cannot outrun them, the two hide, but Piper is discovered by the two men. Daisy threatens them with a gun she brought, and instinctively shoots them both, killing one and wounding another, and the horror of what she has done, along with her fear of what will happen when she arrives home begins to take its toll on her. She and Piper are on the verge of giving up, when they see Eddie's bird flying overhead, and follow it, realizing it will lead them home.
Eventually, Daisy and Piper arrive back at their house, and discover it ransacked and empty, with the exception of Jet, Piper's dog. Eddie is not at the barn where they took shelter either, and although Piper is elated to be home, Daisy breaks down in tears outside. The next day, however, the two hear Jet barking, and runs out into the woods, to find Eddie lying unconscious, and severely beaten and burned. As she nurses him, a ceasefire is announced, electricity is returned, a new government is formed, and the country begins to recover. However, it becomes clear that Eddie is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and is a shadow of his former self. Nevertheless, after he accidentally cuts himself while gardening, Daisy tenderly sucks the blood from his cut, mimicking his actions earlier, and his reaction gives her hope that he might recover.
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