Alliance Films

Infobox_Company
company_name = Alliance Films, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = Toronto, Ontario (2007) result of Alliance Atlantis split.
location = flagicon|Canada Montreal, Quebec, Canada cite web|url=http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/librairie_en/documents/MTL_ACTION_ENG_JANUARY_2008.pdf|title=Volume 3, Number 1|date=January 25, 2008 |format=PDF|work=Montreal in Action|publisher=City of Montreal|accessdate=2008-07-25]
industry = Distribution
products = Movie Distribution
revenue = profit$1.02 billion CAD
num_employees =
homepage = [http://www.alliancefilms.com www.alliancefilms.com]

Alliance Films (formerly Alliance Films Releasing) is a major 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.

Distribution

It distributed & Produced the libraries of:

*"Focus Features"
*"Rogue Pictures"
*"The Weinstein Company"
*"Dimension Films"
*"Miramax Films"
*"Lionsgate Entertainment"
*"New Line Cinema"
*"Summit Entertainment"
*"New Line Cinema" (until late 2008)
*"Overture Films"
*"Yari Film Group"
*"Fine Line Features"
*"Picturehouse (company)"

NOTE: The Company was and continued to be distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment in the future & CIC Video in the past.

Theatre Operations

In partnership with Cineplex Entertainment, this unit also operates Alliance Atlantis 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 begun to produce film projects in moderation. They were responsible for co-producing the 2008 teen slasher "Prom Night" with Screen Gems and Original Film . They are also producing and distributing the upcoming war drama "Passchendaele".

List of Alliance Films releases

2000

*"Final Destination"

2001

*"Spy Kids"'
*"Rush Hour 2"
*""

2002

*"Rabbit-Proof Fence"
*"Pokémon 4Ever"
*"Spirited Away"
*""

2003

*"Final Destination 2"
*"Freddy Vs. Jason"
*"Pokémon Heroes"
*"Elf (film)"
*""
*"Bad Santa"

2004

*"Ella Enchanted"
*"" (direct-to-video)
*"Seed of Chucky"

2005

*"" (direct-to-video)
*"The Thief and the Cobbler" (DVD releases only; Alliance Communications distributed theatrical and VHS releases)
*"Wedding Crashers"
*"The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D"
*"Brokeback Mountain"

2006

*"Final Destination 3"
*"Doogal"
*"Employee of the Month (film)"
*"Mammoth (film)"'

2007

*"Arthur and the Minimoys"
*"Snakes on a Plane"
*"Halloween"
*"Hairspray"
*"Eagle V.S. Shark"
*"Breaking and Entering (film)"
*"Rogue (film)"
*"Fracture"
*"Bratz (film)
*"Happily N'ever After"
*"Planet Terror"
*"Hot Fuzz"
*"The Golden Compass (film)"
*"All Hat (film)"
*"Amazing Grace (film)"
*"Balls of Fury"
*"Becoming Jane"
*"Clerks 2"
*"Days of Darkness"
*"Death at a Funerel"
*"Death Proof"
*"Deep Water"
*"District 13"
*"Diary of the Dead"
*"Cassandra's Dream"
*"Rush Hour 3"

2008

*"Doomsday (film)"
*"City of Men"
*"Be Kind Rewind"
*"Atonement (film)"
*"Awake (film)"
*"Amusement)"
*"Appolasa"
*"Blindness (film)"
*"Bottle Shock"
*"Boy A"
*"Burn After Reading"
*"Disaster Movie"
*"Traitor"
*"Righteous Kill"
*"Fly Me To The Moon (film)"
*"The Woman"
*"Igor (film)"
*"Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D"
*"The Promotion (film)"
*""
*""
*"Mongol"
*"Vicky Christina Barcelona"
*"The Longshots"
*"Hamlet 2"
*"Chronicle of an Escape"
*"Closing The Ring (film)"
*"Control"
*"Eastern Promises"
*"Hell Ride"
*"Nightwatching (film)"
*"Passchendaele"
*"Prom Night"
*"The Accidental Husband"
*"The Strangers"
*"The Visitor"
*"Zack & Miri Make A Porno!"
*"Nothing Like The Holidays!"
*"I Served the King of England"
*"The Lucky Ones"
*"Body of Lies"
*"Rachel Getting Married"
*"Tropic Thunder"
*"Battle in Seattle"
*"Transporter 3"
*"Relegious"
*"Elegy"
*"The Queen (film)"

2009

*"Astro Boy (film)"
*"Escape from New York (2009 film)"
*"Lesbian Vampire Killers (film)"

2010

*"Devil May Cry (2010 film)"

*"Hannibal Rising"
*"Grindhouse"
*"1408"
*"Unleashed (film)"
*"In Bruges"
*"Hoot (film)"
*"Shoot 'Em Up"
*"Semi-Pro"
*"The Time Traveler's Wife"

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