Fireworks Entertainment
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| Industry | Television and film production and distribution |
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| Fate | Name changed to Content Television |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Defunct | March 14, 2011 |
| Headquarters | Originally Canada then United Kingdom from 2005 |
| Key people | Jay Firestone |
| Parent | Content Media Corporation PLC |
Fireworks Entertainment was founded by Jay Firestone in 1996 to produce, distribute and finance television shows and feature films[1]. Fireworks was acquired by Canwest Global[1] in May 1998, and was later sold to ContentFilm [2], a British company, in April 2005. Over the years Fireworks has amassed a significant catalogue of television shows and movies (Under the Fireworks Pictures label)
From March 14, 2011 Fireworks International became Content Television under the umbrella Content Media Corporation PLC.[3]
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[edit] Court cases
The original company was sued by Sony in respect of Queen of Swords.[4] and by 20th Century Fox in respect of Mutant X[5]
[edit] Television shows (As Fireworks Entertainment)
TV shows filmed in widescreen 16:9 from 2000 but generally broadcast in 4:3 pan and scan. The widescreen versions are available on DVD.
- 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd
- Adventure Inc.
- Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
- Black Hole High
- Caitlin's Way
- Even Stevens
- La Femme Nikita
- Mutant X
- Queen of Swords
- Relic Hunter
- RoboCop: Prime Directives (TV miniseries)
- Zoe Busiek: Wild Card
[edit] Movies (As Fireworks Pictures)
- Solas
- Me Without You
- Better Than Sex
- Rat Race
- Who is Cletis Tout?
- Hardball
- The Believer
- An American Rhapsody
- Interstate 60
- A Wrinkle in Time
- The Man from Elysian Fields
- Innocence
- Greenfingers
- Raising Victor Vargas
- Simon Magus
- Faithless
- Passionada
[edit] References
- ^ a b The Believer - Jay Firestone
- ^ ContentFilm : News : Selected Press Clippings
- ^ Content Media PLC retrieved 5 Nov 2011[1]
- ^ Retrieved November 15, 2009 [2]
- ^ http://openjurist.org/277/f3d/253/twentieth-v-marvel Retrieved February 21, 2010
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