Lions Gate Entertainment Company

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Lions Gate Entertainment Company

• Anne Greenough, Crystal Jackson, Daniel Johnson,
  and Morgan Kramer

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The Company

• Canadian production-distributor company
• Is currently the largest and most successful
  independent film distributor in North America
• Focuses mainly on foreign and independent films
• 297 total employees
• CEO is Jon Feltheimer

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History

• Lionsgate has differed greatly under different
  managers.
• The original company was founded by director
  Robert Altman, who named it after a Vancouver
  landmark, the Lions' Gate Bridge.

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History continued

• The current company was started by Frank Guistra.
  After he took over the company had their first
  big box office hit, American Psycho.
• In 2000, it was taken over by Jon Feltheimer and
  Micheal Burns (Current CEOS).
• They decided to focus on the profits of videos
  and DVDs.
• They bought Trimark Pictures Inc. and Artisan
  Entertainment which makes Lionsgate the 2nd
  largest distributor of DVDs in the world.

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• Widely known for controversial films that large
  American film companies would not normally
  produce
• Crash, Fahrenheit 9/11, American Psycho
• Fahrenheit 9/11 was directed by Michael Moore was
  the largest grossing film in Lions Gates history
  
• Crash was the companies first Academy Award
  winner for best picture in 2005

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• Rarely teams up with other large American film
  companies
• 2004 Universal Artists producing Hotel Rwanda
• Miramax- Dirty Dancing Havana Nights
• Paramount Pictures for 2002's Narc and 2004's
  The Prince Me.
• 20th Century Fox's 2004 sci-fi film The Day After
  Tomorrow.

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Divisions

• DVDs
• Artesian Entertainment
• Best known for its movies Requiem for a Dream,
  National Lampoons Van Wilder and The Blair Witch
  Project
• TV
• Lionsgate Television
• Produced series such as The Dead Zone and Five
  Days to Midnight
• Music
• Lionsgate Records
• Releases soundtracks to the movies the company
  produces

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Stock

• The stock was bought at 9.37 and 7,500 shares
  were purchased
• Over the period of time we have gained 4,350.00
  which is a 6.19 increase
• We believe that the stock has been doing so well
  because the films they are introducing are new
  films that have been highly publicized

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In the works

• Hostel II
• Starring Jay Hernandez. Three American women who
  are studying in Rome for the summer are taken
  away to a Slovakian hostel.
• Delta Farce
• Three army reserves bound for Iraq are
  accidentally dropped at a Mexican village
  besieged by hostile forces.
• Happily NEver After
• Starring Sigourney Weaver, Freddie Prinze Jr.,
  and Sarah Michelle Gellar in this family comedy
  based on a fairytale.

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• Overall we rate this stock good investment
  because they seem to move in the direction
  technology is moving
• They are soon going to introduce movies in the
  format of PSP

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