Alliance Films
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Alliance Films (formerly Alliance Atlantis Releasing LTD or CIC Canada), also known as Alliance VivaFilm in Quebec, is a major Canadian motion picture distribution/production company, which serves Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Formally known as Motion Picture Distribution LP, it was re branded and relaunched in 2007 due to the collapse of its preceding company, Alliance Atlantis, which was sold off piece by piece to CanWest Global, GS Capital Partners, along with several other smaller companies. Socit gnrale de financement du Qubec, an investment agency of the provincial government, owns 51% of the voting shares of the company and 38.5% of the equity.
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Twilight distributor Entertainment One buys Canada's Alliance Films in £174m deal
Movie distributor Entertainment One buys Canada's Alliance Films.
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Peppa Pig co-owner to launch US push
Entertainment One to roll out range of branded toys, DVDs and books after striking deal with publishers including Scholastic.
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Entertainment One scraps sale plans and seeks targets
Entertainment One, the media business that distributes the Twilight films in the UK, has been linked to a possible bid for Canadian company Alliance Films after scrapping plans to put itself up for sale.
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Hollywood Suite Opens in Canada
Canadians are getting a new cross-platform movie service called Hollywood Suite, which promises to be available “on TV, on demand, online and on the go” when it goes live in November. Hollywood Suite is positioning itself as the exclusive home of movie channels from both Warner.
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Momentum, Lovefilm agree deal
TV News: Online subscription service to carry U. K. distrib's titles -- Brit indie distrib Momentum Pictures, an Alliance Films company, has inked a U. K. film distribution pact with European online film and TV subscription service Lovefilm.
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