Maple Pictures Corporation was a Canadian–American film distribution company founded on April 13, 2005, when Lionsgate demerged to two companies—Lions Gate Entertainment and Maple Pictures (formerly the original incarnation of Lionsgate Films)."Market News" marketnews.ca, Retrieved on July 20, 2013Lions Gate spins off Canadian distribution, production screendaily.com, Retrieved on July 20, 2013 Maple Pictures was the official distributor for Lionsgate's films and video library throughout Canada.
Through several ownership changes, Alliance Films acquired Maple from Lionsgate in 2011, which was in turn sold to Entertainment One in 2013, which was itself acquired by Hasbro in 2019. Lionsgate, through its acquisition of eOne, reacquired the trademarks of Maple Pictures from Hasbro in 2023.
Background The company described 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 had 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 depicted the company's name smothered in concentric circles & rings, whose font was set in Helvetica Bold.
Maple used to distribute LeapFrog and HIT Entertainment 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. On January 9, 2013, Entertainment One acquired Alliance,Tartaglione, Nancy. EOne Completes Alliance Films Acquisition; Victor Loewy, Charles Layton Exit. Deadline Hollywood (January 9, 2012) and then on December 30, 2019, American toy and media company Hasbro (after having tried and failed to acquire Lionsgate) acquired eOne. On August 3, 2023, Lionsgate announced that it would acquire the non-children's assets of eOne from Hasbro, reuniting the library and trademarks for Maple Pictures with Lionsgate after a separation of twelve years. The deal closed on December 27, 2023.
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 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 The 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
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