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That would be one<\/i> way to spin this Variety<\/i> story<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Alliance Films, Canada\u2019s leading film distributor, is set to lose its most lucrative output deal as a result of Warner Bros.\u2019 slashing of New Line<\/a>. . . .<\/p>\n

Alliance makes its money from its deals with U.S. minimajors like Miramax, Focus and New Line, with New Line reportedly providing some 15% of Alliance\u2019s annual box office revenue in Canada. Alliance has a deal with New Line until the end of the year, so it will continue to handle the studio\u2019s slate for the rest of 2008, even though those pics will be going out via Warner Bros. in the U.S.<\/p>\n

But after this year, Alliance will be losing the revenue generated by New Line, which gave Alliance many of its biggest hits in recent years, including the \u201cLord of the Rings<\/a>,\u201d \u201cAustin Powers<\/a>\u201d and \u201cRush Hour<\/a>\u201d pics.<\/p>\n

This is not good news for the Societe Generale de Financement, the Quebec government\u2019s investment arm, which paid C$100 million ($98.5 million) in mid-January<\/a> to acquire 51% of the voting shares of Alliance and a 38.5% ownership stake. The government investment group would not comment on the loss of the New Line films. The rest of the equity in the company is owned by Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n

Alliance CEO Victor Loewy says his company will be inking a new output deal with another international film company shortly, but would not provide further details. He insists Alliance had not been making money from New Line pics in the past year or two, citing \u201cThe Golden Compass<\/a>\u201d as a New Line pic that bombed for Alliance. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story also reports on the goings-on at Christal Films.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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