Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis and commonly shortened to simply Alliance or Atlantis and formerly traded as TSX:AAC) 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.
Alliance Atlantis was a merger of two companies: Atlantis Communications, founded in 1978 by Michael MacMillan and Alliance Communications founded in 1985 by Robert Lantos and Victor Loewy with the company went public. Both Alliance Communications and Atlantis Communications merge to form Atlantis Alliance in 1998 and was member of the North American Broadcasting Association (NABA).
The company ceased to exist in 2007 as the broadcasting division acquired by Canwest Global Communications and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs in 2007, with the motion picture division was then spun off and operated independently as Alliance Films, headquartered in Montreal (subsequently sold to Entertainment One), and the international television distribution division is now owned by Echo Bridge Entertainment.
All of the former Alliance Atlantis specialty networks, except for the now-defunct BBC Kids, are now owned by Corus Entertainment. The films division was later acquired by Entertainment One group and folded into eOne on January 9, 2013.
The Alliance name survived under the Alliance Cinemas banner until January 1, 2021, now owned by Cineplex Entertainment.
Source: Wikidata , September 2023
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