Lionsgate Home Entertainment
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| Fate | Now Lions Gate Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Family Home Entertainment Artisan Entertainment |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Defunct | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Canada |
| Industry | Home entertainment company |
| Products | Care Bears Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars Saw |
| Parent | HiT Entertainment |
| Subsidiaries | Lions Gate Entertainment |
Lionsgate Home Entertainment is the home video and DVD distribution arm of Lions Gate Entertainment. Its library of more than 8000 films owes some of its size to output deals with other studios. Mainly concerned with the distribution of the Lions Gate film library, it also distributes Mattel's Barbie-branded videos, as well as Clifford the Big Red Dog videos from Scholastic and Stickin' Around videos from Nelvana. Lionsgate Home Entertainment also currently distributes videos from HIT Entertainment.
It was previously named Cinépix Film Properties Inc. (CFP). In 2001, in Quebec, it was renamed Crystal Films, and in Ontario and other provinces, Maple Pictures.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment movies are released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment titles are currently distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
On August 4, 2008, Lionsgate announced that it had completed a deal with ABC Studios to acquire the distribution rights to several shows including According to Jim, Reaper, Hope & Faith, 8 Simple Rules and Boy Meets World. [1]
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[edit] TV series
- 8 Simple Rules
- ALF
- According to Jim
- Barney & Friends
- Bob the Builder
- Boomtown
- Clone High (Summer 2010)
- Fifi & the Flowertots
- Fireman Sam
- Keeping Up with the Kardashians
- Hope & Faith
- Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane
- Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
- Moonlighting
- My Wife and Kids
- Pingu
- Reaper
- Roary the Racing Car
- Saturday Night Live
- Saved by the Bell
- Speed Racer
- Sunset Tan
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- The Dead Zone
- The Dresden Files
- The Hoobs
- Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends
- Weeds
- Will & Grace
- 1-800-Missing
[edit] Controversy
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When Lions Gate Home Entertainment released the first season of ALF on DVD in 2004, the DVDs contained the edited-for-syndication versions of the episodes. These ran almost 22 minutes, whereas the original NBC broadcasts were over 24 minutes without commercials. Lionsgate insisted that they used the syndication versions because the NBC versions were poorer in video quality, but two years earlier, the Video Service Corporation released a Canada only "The ALF Files" on DVD, with a single disc with 3 uncut episodes with no quality issues reported. Shortly after the release of the first season, tvshowsondvd.com posted a news item in response, and Lions Gate requested that they remove the news item so they could give a better explanation. However, the better explanation they promised never came. Even though hundreds of fans complained to Lions Gate about the edited episodes on the first season set, they ignored them and released all the remaining episodes edited as well. [1][2] Additionally, some of the episodes on seasons two and three contained episodes that ran under 20 minutes. [3] [4]
Since then, Warner Home Video has released the first season of ALF in Germany and Japan in the uncut versions. [5]
