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Alliance Films, Inc.
Type Private
Founded Toronto, Ontario (2007) result of Alliance Atlantis collapse.
Headquarters Montreal, Quebec, Canada [1]
Industry Distribution and Production
Products Movie distribution
Revenue ▲$250m CAD
Website www.alliancefilms.com

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. Société générale de financement du Québec, an investment agency of the provincial government, owns 51% of the voting shares of the company and 38.5% of the equity. GS Capital owns the remainder of the company.

Alliance Films is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, at 455 Saint-Antoine Street West in the Quartier International.

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Distribution

It distributes all or some of the following companies' libraries:

NOTE: The companies video releases were and continue to be distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment in the future and CIC Video in the past.

Divisions

The Quebec francophone film business is branded as Alliance Vivafilm.

Alliance Films also operates:

Theatre Operations

In partnership with Cineplex Entertainment, this unit also operates Alliance Cinemas, owner of two Toronto-area theatres. During the MPD era, all materials relating to Alliance Atlantis-distributed films contained a disclaimer stating that Alliance Atlantis was "an indirect limited partner of Motion Picture Distribution LP, not a general partner". However, in fact, the company controlled the general partner of the partnership, and hence effectively controlled the distribution unit itself.

Production

Recently, Alliance Films has one again begun to produce films in moderation. In addition to producing films as The Rocket with Cinémaginaire (as well as other movies) and National Lampoon's Senior Trip with New Line Cinema of and before the days of Alliance Atlantis respectively, they were responsible for co-producing the 2008 teen slasher Prom Night with Screen Gems and Original Film . They also produced and distributed the war drama Passchendaele, and co-produced the comedy Stone Of Destiny with Infinity Features Entertainment and The Mob Film Company.

List of films released by Alliance Films

Movies are from Momentum Pictures, AURUM, Les Seville & Alliance Vivafilm

References

  1. ^ "Volume 3, Number 1" (PDF). Montreal in Action. City of Montreal. January 25, 2008. http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/librairie_en/documents/MTL_ACTION_ENG_JANUARY_2008.pdf. Retrieved 2008-07-25. 
  2. ^ "Canada's Alliance gets New Line reprieve into 2009". Screen Daily. http://www.screendaily.com/canadas-alliance-gets-new-line-reprieve-into-2009/4040527.article. Retrieved 2009-07-04. 

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