Lionsgate

Lionsgate (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) is a Canadian-American^] film production/distribution studio and a division of Lions Gate Entertainment. It is the largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. It focuses on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film series, including The Twilight Saga (partially), The Hunger Games, Saw and The Expendables.

Cinépix Film Properties (CFP) was founded in 1962 by John Dunning and Andre Link and was based in Montreal. CFP was a leading Canadian independent motion picture company, releasing both English- and French-language films and making ten to 12 modestly budgeted titles annually and distributed art-house films like grunge rock documentary Hype, Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66, and SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist.