Working with independent studios such as the now-shuttered Fine Line, Artisan ( which was absorbed into today's Lionsgate ), and USA Films ( now Focus Features ), gave Altman the edge in making the kinds of films he has always wanted to make without studio interference.

Select episodes (" The Best of Bonanza ") were officially released in North America in 2003 on DVD through then-Republic video licensee Artisan Entertainment ( which was later purchased by Lionsgate Home Entertainment ).

The TV series and videos are currently distributed by Hit Entertainment and Lionsgate, while the TV series was produced by WNET from 2006 to 2009.

A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2007.

A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2007.

Away from Her was acquired by Lionsgate for release in the US for the sum of $ 750, 000.

The Dead was initially released on DVD by Lionsgate on November 3, 2009.

When word of this was posted on various websites, Lionsgate eventually released a complete version.

The show, credited as " based on characters " from Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, first aired in 2002, and was produced by Lionsgate Television and CBS Paramount Television ( Paramount Television 2002-05 ) for the USA Network.

On March 13, 2012, Lionsgate Television formed a new joint venture with Thunderbird Films, a company founded by Frank Giustra, who was the founder and chairman of Lionsgate.

In 2012, it was revealed that Antix Productions had partnered with Lionsgate.

The Lions Gate Studios property in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada was sold to a private company, Bosa Developments, and is now called North Shore Studios, and no longer have an affiliation with Lionsgate Entertainment.

It was released to home media through Artisan, and later, Lionsgate Home Entertainment in the United States.

The film was directed by Kirk Thatcher, written by Tom Martin and Jim Lewis and stars the Muppets and was filmed at Lionsgate Studios.

The film was released to home media by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

The film was re-released on DVD on April 14, 2009 by Lionsgate Entertainment, in a collection of forgotten films called the " Lost Collection ".

It was re-released by Lionsgate.

In 2010, development of a remake of Meatballs was announced by Lionsgate, with John Whitesell attached to direct a script by Sean Anders and John Morris.

Lionsgate stock rose from $ 1. 98 a share at the time Cabin Fever was purchased at the Toronto Film Festival to nearly $ 6 a share after Cabin Fever was released theatrically.

Also, Universal owns through NBC the rights to the 1957 Elvis Presley film Loving You, also originally by Paramount ( Lionsgate owns US DVD rights ).

The network also has rights to many films not released by Disney ( either because the studio does not have a children's network or has one that is incompatible with their focus ), such as Warner Bros .' ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( known in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ), Universal Pictures ( Beethoven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), The Weinstein Company ( Hoodwinked, The Magic Roundabout ), Sony Pictures ( Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Hook ), Lionsgate ( Happily N ' ever After ), 20th Century Fox ( Ice Age, the Home Alone film series, Catch That Kid ), Paramount ( Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown ( and Don't Come Back !!)).

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 ).

The 2005 DVD release was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment, now known as Starz Home Entertainment, under license from the film's current owner, StudioCanal ; however, the current, 25th Anniversary home video release ( which also now includes Blu-ray ) is by Lionsgate Home Entertainment, again under StudioCanal's license.

NBC licensed television syndication rights to NBCUniversal Television Distribution and US video distribution to Lionsgate.

* The 1978 film adaptation of Death on the Nile is now owned by StudioCanal ( the successor company to original producer EMI Films )-- StudioCanal has licensed DVD rights to Lionsgate, after some years of being distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment.

US intellecutal property rights are owned by Lionsgate, as successor-in-interest to Canadian-financed films by producers John Dunning & Andre Link and their company Cinepix ; Lionsgate has in turn licensed DVD rights to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Paramount still controls international rights, and picked up remake rights when Lionsgate put the project in turnaround.

* Lionsgate now controls most rights to the 1987 Vietnam War film Hamburger Hill through an equity investment Vestron Video made with its production outfit RKO Pictures, though Paramount retains TV and Internet rights.

American Zoetrope has recently signed a distribution deal with Lionsgate.

Lionsgate released the film on Blu-ray on October 19, 2010.

( It has no relation to today's Canada / U. S .- based entertainment company Lionsgate ).

Companies that are completely independent, such as Lionsgate, also produce mainstream films, from a cultural standpoint, but independent of the studio system.

* Notable recent graduates of the college include: former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, and former Nebraska Congressman Hal Daub ; George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse ; Avram Glazer, chairman of Manchester United ; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Ken Cooper and Hank Klibanoff ; Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate films ; actors Peter Sarsgaard ( Boys Don't Cry, An Education, Flight Plan ) and Harold Ramis ( Ghostbusters, Caddyshack ); U. S. Ambassador Sam Fox ; baseball player Dal Maxvill ; and science-show host Deanne Bell ( Design Squad ).

The two films will be distributed by Lionsgate Entertainment.

Lionsgate will handle distribution in the United States, with StudioCanal handling European distribution.

In 2010, Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK began releasing complete season box sets.

On August 10, 2009, Lionsgate Home Entertainment announced that they had reached a deal with The Jim Henson Company to acquire the rights to release Fraggle Rock on DVD.

In 2011, scenes for the Lionsgate adaptation of The Hunger Games were filmed in Hildebran, North Carolina at the Henry River Mill Village.

Lionsgate Academy is a public charter school for those who have High-functioning Autism and it's the only one in the state of Minnesota for students with Autism since 2008.

On May 23, 2011, Lionsgate announced that Kravitz would be joining the cast and crew of The Hunger Games, as Katniss ' creative stylist, Cinna.

Body and Soul, Arch of Triumph ) are currently owned by Viacom's Melange Pictures holding unit under Paramount ( as part of the Republic Pictures theatrical library ), with Trifecta handling television syndication and Lionsgate holding video / DVD rights.

* Ancillary rights to The Final Countdown are now with Lionsgate ( successor-in-interest to Producers Sales Organization ), however the video rights are held by Blue Underground.

Most American programming that airs on Nine and its regional affiliates is sourced from Nine's studio-output deals with Warner Bros. Television, Sony Pictures Television and Lionsgate Television.

Paramount now also owns the theatrical rights, while Lionsgate Entertainment ( Republic's video licensee and successor to Artisan Entertainment, previously LIVE Entertainment ) holds the home video rights, and Trifecta Entertainment & Media now holds most major TV rights on behalf of Republic / Paramount ( aside from other major and minor / low budget film, TV, and video companies that distribute the public domain cartoons )-- CBS Television Distribution ( as well as its predecessor companies Paramount Domestic Television and Worldvision Enterprises ) formally held such TV rights until 2009.