Lionsgate & Sony Team for New Multi-Year Home Ent. Pact

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Originally Posted by MadmanMark

I don't expect it to be impact eOne at all. They've mostly gotten out of the film distribution game. Most of their output deals with US studios expired or went elsewhere to Elevation. They've had a handful of titles in Quebec and might have some Canadian rights to Hasbro/Saban properties given they were purchased by them. They had the Josh Harnett film Most Wanted / Target Number One which was a Saban property distributed by Paramount in the US and eOne up here but the days of them having a lot are behind them.

Not too sure on Elevation. The home (physical media) market in Canada is pretty much a joke. Outside of the major major new releases, your lucky to get a bluray release, more often then not if it's just a DVD and even then it depends as to who has what rights.

EOne definitely went downhill since their merger, they’ve let go of a ton of New Line, Focus Featured and Miramax titles and now it seems like all of their catalogue titles of Lionsgate have reverted back as well. Very disappointing when it comes to getting a Blu Ray over here. Lionsgate also got back it’s StudioCanal titles here after Mongrel had that partnership.