Maple Pictures

Maple Pictures Corporation is the distribution arm of Alliance Films. It was formed on April 25, 2005 when Lions Gate Entertainment demerged to two companies -- Lions Gate Entertainment (formerly Artisan Entertainment) and Maple Pictures (formerly Lions Gate Films, and before 1998, Cinepix Film Properties). Maple Pictures is the official distributor for Lionsgate's films and video library throughout Canada. The releases were distributed by Equinoxe Films in Quebec and Alliance Films in Toronto.

Background

The company describes 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 has an extensive home video catalogue, which was built up largely by Lions Gate Entertainment's acquisition of several other independent studios.

In 2008 Maple Pictures acquired the rights to distribute Miramax films which Alliance Films lost acquisition to earlier in 2007. On June 24th 2011, Alliance Films bought Maple Pictures from Lions Gate Entertainment (Maple's former owner) for a sum of 38.5 million dollars.^[1]

Television DVD Releases

• Mad Men
• Weeds
• Nurse Jackie
• Crash
• Tyler Perry's House of Payne
• Saved by the Bell (Universal Media Studios)
• Will & Grace (Universal Media Studios)
• According to Jim (ABC Studios)
• Reaper (ABC Studios)
• My Wife & Kids (ABC Studios)
• ALF
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dead Zone
• Saturday Night Live (Universal Media Studios)
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Iron Chef

Films released

• Dirty Dancing
• Basic Instinct
• Terminator 2: Judgement 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
• The Devil's Rejects
• 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
• 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
• Crash

Upcoming films

• The Endless (2012)

References

1. ^ Etan Vlessing (June 21, 2011). "Analysts Welcome Lionsgate Selling Maple Pictures to Alliance Films". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/analysts-welcome-lionsgate-selling-maple-203710. 

External links

• Maple Pictures Corp. official website
• Maple Pictures at the Internet Movie Database
• Maple Pictures's channel on YouTube