Maple Pictures held the rights to distribute Miramax films in Canada from 2008 up until August 10, 2011 when Maple Pictures was acquired by Alliance Films.

On March 1, 2011, Miramax renewed its Canadian distribution deal with Alliance Films, which had always been a distributor of Miramax releases in Canada from 1987 to 2008 and will replace Maple Pictures ( which previously distributed Miramax releases from 2008 to 2011 ).

A very select amount of films by Walt Disney Pictures are distributed in Canada by another billion-dollar franchise known as Alliance Films with DVD rights to Universal Studios Home Entertainment, typically for films under Miramax Films, which was recently sold by Walt Disney Studios to Filmyard Holdings.

The movie business now operates independently as Alliance Films, headquartered in Montreal, and the international television distribution businesses is now owned by Echo Bridge Entertainment.

Alliance Films is a major motion picture distribution / production company which serves Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

The series was both produced by and a parody of Salter Street Films and Island Edge Inc, and Pyramid's logo is very similar to that of Salter Street parent company Alliance Atlantis.

( Ironically, Alliance Atlantis later purchased Salter Street Films, the producers of Made in Canada.

* Alliance Films ( 1990 – 2009 )

* Prom Night ( co-produced with Alliance Films and Original Film )

Goldman retained or resold the remaining pieces of AAC, the distribution arm soon re-emerging as Alliance Films.

* Shame ( co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, UK Film Council, See-Saw Films, HanWay Films and Momentum Pictures / Alliance Films )

StudioCanal also handles home entertainment distribution of 550 titles from the Miramax Films library internationally ( Lions Gate handles US distribution and Alliance Films handles Canadian distribution ) since February 2011.

Recently, Lionsgate sold their subsidiary Maple Pictures to film distributor Alliance Films, which is based in Montreal, Quebec.

The former Lionsgate office located in Toronto is now owned by Maple Pictures ( basically the spiritual successor for the original Lions Gate ), the distribution arm of Alliance Films, a major Canadian motion picture distribution / production company, resulting in Lions Gate's demerger into two companies, Lionsgate ( the American company formerly known as Artisan ) and Maple Pictures ( the Canadian company formerly known as Lions Gate ).

It is also the last film in the Pokémon franchise to have been released by Miramax in the United States and Alliance Films in Canada ; the next three films were released by Viz Media in both countries and Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior was released by Universal Studios in both countries.

The service carries films distributed by Alliance Films, Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros., among others, and has supply agreements for original programming produced and owned by the American pay networks HBO and Showtime.

Previously, Alliance Films was the distributor for New Line films in Canada.

* Official site ( a division of Alliance Films )

Cineplex also established a distribution unit, Cineplex Odeon Films, during this period ; its assets were largely sold to Alliance Atlantis in 1998.

Cineplex also owns a minority interest in Alliance Cinemas, in partnership with Alliance Films.

In June 1973, a motion was made to change the name of the HCAA to the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America ( MJAA ), and the name was officially changed in June 1975.

In 1996, McCaffrey sold the motion picture rights to an Irish company, Zyntopo Teoranta, who entered into a co-production agreement with Alliance Atlantis, covering development including advanced 3-D animation and compositing effects for television budgets.

Secondly when a former Alliance member moved a motion calling for the repatriation of people of Indian origin back to India, Koya was not happy with the measured response of the Alliance Government and accused it of " having elements which wanted to do legally what the Fijian Nationalist Party Leader, Sakeasi Butadroka, was trying to do illegally.

* Motion Sensing Alliance, an alliance for the development of motion sensing technology

In the mid 1920s to the late 1940s, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Motion Picture Machine Operators organized the motion picture and television production business in Hollywood.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or I. A. T. S. E., ( full name: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada ) is a labor union representing about 113, 000 technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, motion picture and television production, and trade shows.

Later that year, NYIT was awarded a $ 130, 000 research contract by United Space Alliance to help NASA scientists design the crew module of the Orion spacecraft using 3-D motion capture technology.

The Psi Corps attempts to take over the Earth Alliance government, a chain of events set in motion by President Clark's positioning of telepaths in stations of authority they would not have otherwise achieved.

And indeed, when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the motion picture industry, the vast majority of " friendly witnesses " were supplied by the Alliance.

Ultimately the Council decided not to take any action against McCoubrey, with a motion of censure brought in by the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland's David Alderdice defeated in the council.

The hidden playable character in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Mokap, was created in tribute to Carlos ' motion capture work at Midway.

Alliance will have access to all of the company's library titles once again as well as distribution rights to new Miramax films produced in the next five years.

The label has distribution deals through Alternative Distribution Alliance in the United States, Cooking Vinyl in Europe, Sony Music in Asia and with various other distributors throughout the world.

CBS Paramount gained Alliance Atlantis ' international distribution rights to the programs.

** Alliance Atlantis ' international television distribution operations were sold by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners to Echo Bridge Entertainment.

On June 9, 2010, Nettwerk announced that for it's distribution and marketing in the United States, it would depart from Sony Music and its catalogue would now be distributed by WMG's Alternative Distribution Alliance.

Alliance Atlantis ( acquired by CanWest Global Communications in 2007 ) is the major Canadian distributor of American and international films and in 2003 it ceased to produce films ( and almost all television ) to focus almost exclusively on distribution.

Elder McKnight serves as president of the Bradford County Ministerial Alliance and is the president and founder of Bradford County Faith Community Center, a faith-based organization that serves North Central Florida by providing HIV testing and counseling, a recovery program and prison ministry, food distribution and a family literacy program.

Merge quickly reached an agreement with the Alternative Distribution Alliance to continue distribution of its releases.

The 50 artists chosen to wear the Rawkus 50 badge were signed to a digital distribution deal through IODA's ( Independent Online Distribution Alliance ) digital distribution network and had their albums released under the banner " Rawkus 50 presents ".

The 50 artists chosen to wear the Rawkus 50 badge were signed to a digital distribution deal through IODA's ( Independent Online Distribution Alliance ) digital distribution network and had their albums released under the banner " Rawkus 50 presents ".

In August 1996, the newspaper published Gary Webb's " Dark Alliance ", a series of investigative articles linking the CIA to Nicaraguan contras organizing the distribution of cocaine into United States.

* Save Our Rice Alliance ; information on wild rice harvest, management and distribution across the Upper Great Lakes Region

The deal struck to sponsor The Health Networks distribution in Canada was a prelude to the fact that Alliance Atlantis and News Corporation would eventually launch a Canadian version of the channel for the domestic market and remove the American channel from the Canadian market.

On July 6, 2006 Jagged Alliance 2 was made available to buy via the Steam distribution service.

Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, the DLC Shades of Red and Point Blank and Jagged Alliance: Crossfire are available to buy via the Steam distribution service.