Lionsgate Films is a filmmaking company.
History[]
Lionsgate was formed in 1997 by Frank Giustra with a $16 million investment including another $40 million from other investors which included Keyur Patel and Yorkton Securities' executives such as G. Scott Paterson. Giustra had recently retired as CEO from Yorkton, an investment bank, and Paterson was then president. Giustra then merged Lionsgate with Toronto Stock Exchange listed Beringer Gold Corp. (founded in 1986) to take the company public.
They released a couple of Aardman's films in America in Shaun the Sheep Movie and Early Man, whilst Lionsgate Home Entertainment alongside HIT Entertainment would release American home media for Wallace & Gromit.