Formerly | Lakeshore Entertainment Group (1994–2021) |
---|---|
Company type | Private |
Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | 1994 |
Founders |
|
Defunct | 2020 |
Successor | Vine Alternative Investments |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Motion pictures |
Owner | Vine Alternative Investments (2019–2024) Shamrock Capital (2024–present) |
Divisions |
|
Subsidiaries | Off the Dock (2015–18) |
Lakeshore Village Entertainment is an American independent film production, finance, and former international sales and distribution company [1] founded in 1994 by Tom Rosenberg and Ted Tannebaum. [2] Lakeshore Entertainment is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. [3]
The company produced over 60 films, including the Academy Award-winning Million Dollar Baby (2004). [4] Sigurjón Sighvatsson was the company's first president and served from its founding until 1998. [5] He was replaced by producer Gary Lucchesi. [6]
In 2013, Lakeshore launched a television division, [7] and in 2015, they launched a digital studio, Off the Dock, that targets the YouTube demographic. [8] The company also had a record label division, Lakeshore Records.
In March 2019, Lakeshore placed its film library up for sale. The library includes 300 titles, such as the New World Pictures library (which Lakeshore acquired in 1996). [9] In October 2019, Lakeshore sold its library and international operation to Vine Alternative Investments for roughly $200 million. [10] In July 2024, Vine Alternative Investments sold their portfolio (excluding Village Roadshow Entertainment Group and EuropaCorp) to Shamrock Capital. [11]
Lakeshore Records | |
---|---|
Parent company | Cutting Edge Group (2020–present) |
Genre | Soundtracks |
Country of origin | United States |
Location | Beverly Hills, California |
Official website | lakeshorerecords |
Lakeshore Records is a soundtrack record label, originally founded as the independent music division of Lakeshore Entertainment. It had begun as Will Records, which was founded by Skip Williamson in the early 1990s. [12]
As Will Records they released albums by artists such as Grandaddy (starting with their debut A Pretty Mess by This One Band ). In 2000, Will Records acquired the catalogue of recently closed Loosegroove Records (a catalogue that included the debut full-length album by Queens of the Stone Age).
Will Records and Lakeshore Entertainment partnered to form Lakeshore Records. [12] In 2011, it signed a home video deal with Image Entertainment. [13]
In February 2020, it was announced that Lakeshore Records had been sold to Cutting Edge Group. [14]
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. was a Canadian 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.
Focus Features LLC is an American independent film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast as a division of Universal Pictures, which is itself a division of its wholly owned subsidiary of NBCUniversal. Focus Features distributes independent and foreign films in the United States and internationally.
Orange Sky Golden Harvest (OSGH), previously known as Golden Harvest from 1970 to 2009, is a film production, distribution, and exhibition company based in Hong Kong. It dominated Hong Kong cinema box office sales from the 1970s to the 1980s, and played a major role in introducing Hong Kong action films to the world, especially those by Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Sammo Hung.
Village Roadshow Pictures is an American film and television production company and subsidiary of the Australian co-producer and co-financier of major Hollywood motion pictures established in 1989. It is a division under Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG), which in turn is majority owned by Vine Alternative Investments and Falcon Investment Advisors, with the Australian media company Village Roadshow currently holding a 20% minority stake. It has produced films including, The Matrix series, the Sherlock Holmes series, the Happy Feet series, the Ocean's series, The Lego Movie and Joker. The films in the Village Roadshow library have achieved 34 number-one U.S. box office openings and received 50 Academy Award nominations, 19 Academy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distributor within the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. It handles theatrical and occasional digital distribution, marketing and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and internationally Searchlight Pictures; which operates its own autonomous theatrical distribution and marketing unit in the United States.
Spyglass Media Group, LLC is an independent film and television production and finance company founded by Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum in 1998.
Beacon Pictures is an American film and television production and international sales company founded in 1990 by Armyan Bernstein, who is also its chairman. The company produces motion pictures for studios such as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 1996, it struck a first look deal with Universal.
Rogue is an American independent production company founded in 1998 by Matt Wall and Patrick Gunn, originally started off as a genre film label of the Universal-affiliated independent film studio October Films and was based in Universal City, California. It was known to produce action, non-action, thriller, and horror films.
Patrick Tatopoulos is a Greek-French production designer and director who lives and works in the United States. His designs have appeared in numerous motion pictures, including Pitch Black, Underworld, I, Robot, The Chronicles of Riddick, Independence Day, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stargate, Spawn, Godzilla, Stuart Little, 300, I Am Legend, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, 10,000 BC and Live Free or Die Hard.
Rob “Italian puppet” Heydon is a Canadian film producer and director of television series, feature films and documentaries.
Propaganda Films was an American production company specializing in television commercials and music videos, founded in 1986 by producers Steve Golin and Sigurjón Sighvatsson and directors David Fincher, Nigel Dick, Dominic Sena and Greg Gold. By 1990, the company was producing almost a third of all music videos made in the U.S.
Paul Haslinger is an Austrian musician and composer. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Underworld is an American action horror film series created by Kevin Grevioux, Len Wiseman, and Danny McBride. It follows characters who are caught up in a war between vampires and werewolves. Most of the films star Kate Beckinsale as Selene. The first film, Underworld (2003), introduces Selene, an elite vampire-warrior who defies her orders, and Michael Corvin, a human who gets caught up in the war. The second film, Underworld: Evolution (2006), follows Selene and Michael as they are hunted by their enemies. The third film, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009), is the prequel to the series, chronicling the origins of the vampire-lycan war. The fourth film, Underworld: Awakening (2012), is the sequel to Underworld: Evolution. In this film, humans have discovered the existence of vampires and lycans, and are trying to eradicate both species. A fifth film, titled Underworld: Blood Wars (2016), focuses on Selene who tries to stop a new war between vampires and lycans.
Startled Insects, later known as The Insects, are an instrumental English pop-jazz band.
Roadshow Entertainment is an Australian home video, production and distribution company that is a division of Village Roadshow that distributes films in Australia and New Zealand. Their first release was Mad Max. Roadshow Entertainment is an independent video distributor in Australia and New Zealand.
Justin Lassen was a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and remixer who has worked in the film, sound design, and video game industries. He died on February 22, 2021, of apparent natural causes.
Flying Bark Productions Pty Ltd is an Australian entertainment and animation studio. The studio acts as a full-service production facility across feature films, television and an assorted range of digital content. The studio was established by Yoram and Sandra Gross in 1967 as Yoram Gross Film Studios.
RatPac Entertainment, LLC is an American media and entertainment company that finances and produces motion pictures, television, documentaries, live theater, and podcasts. The company is owned by Brett Ratner and James Packer.
Brendan Angelides, formerly known by his stage names Eskmo and Welder, is an American electronic music producer and composer. He has released music on the record labels Interscope, Ninja Tune, Planet Mu, and Warp Records. NPR's Bob Boilen described him as "part musician, part magician". to introduce his 2015 Tiny Desk Performance.
Skip Williamson is an American Grammy-nominated music producer, feature film producer, and publisher. After establishing the independent label, Will Records, he partnered with Lakeshore Entertainment to form Lakeshore Records. Williamson is also a co-publisher and Chief Creative Officer of Revolver.