Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm
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| Fate |
Acquired
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| Successor |
Corus Entertainment Entertainment One |
| Founded | 1998 (as merger of Alliance Communications and Atlantis Communications) |
| Defunct | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Santa Monica, California, United States |
| Website | www |
Acquired
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (formerly traded as :AAC) was a Canadian-American media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona, Shannon, and Sydney.
Alliance Atlantis was acquired by Canwest Global Communications and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs in 2007. The movie business then operated independently as Alliance Films, headquartered in Montreal (subsequently sold to Entertainment One), and the international television distribution businesses is now owned by Echo Bridge Entertainment.
All of the former Alliance Atlantis specialty networks are now owned by Corus Entertainment. The films division was later acquired by Entertainment One group and folded into eOne on January 9, 2013.
Alliance Atlantis was formed in 1998 from the merger of two former production companies, Alliance Communications and Atlantis Communications, both founded in 1985. As President and Board Director of the subsequent combined Alliance Atlantis, Lewis Rose was responsible for leading the teams which arranged the merger financing of $545 million and which achieved in excess of $20 million in savings and synergies from the combination of the two companies in the year following the merger. (The merger was also parodied on Made in Canada, when that show's Pyramid Productions merged with a company called Prodigy.)
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