American Artists Pictures

American Artists Pictures Corporation (or American Artists) was an American film and home video distribution arm of Lions Gate Entertainment. it distributes all films from Lionsgate Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Summit Entertainment in the United States. also releases older movies from Victory Pictures Corporation, Cinépix Film Properties, Shirley Temple Entertainment, Family Home Entertainment, Trimark Pictures, Vestron Pictures, and Artisan Entertainment because they are folded by Lionsgate.

American Artists was Headquartered at 2700 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California. It was formed on September 30, 2019 when Lions Gate Entertainment demerged to two companies—Lionsgate Holdings and American Artists Pictures (formerly Lionsgate Films and New Line Cinema).

it's record label called American Artists Records released all soundtrack versions of their songs from films that American Artists Pictures distributed.

it also had American Artists Television to distribute all the television shows in the library from Lionsgate (as well as the other foreign studios).

it's division American Artists Home Entertainment distributed one of the Lionsgate/New Line/Summit libraries as well as films from Toll Bridge Pictures, Carnival Pictures (Campus Studios, Screen Media Films, and Troma Entertainment), Duckland Pictures, Road Productions, and Lightbulb Pictures in the United States. it became the second largest Green-ray film distributor, the first was Sunking Home Entertainment.

it's record label called American Artists Records released all soundtrack versions of their songs from films that American Artists Pictures distributed.

History
in 2000, Lions Gate Entertainment purchased and renamed Trimark Pictures to a distribution company called Lions Gate Distribution. It was a distributor of Lionsgate's films in the USA. in 2003, Lionsgate purchased Artisan Entertainment, which changed it's name to Lions Gate Entertainment Distribution to distribute every Lionsgate film in the United States.

in 2005, Lionsgate created Maple Pictures, which distributes them in Canada. in 2008, Maple replaced Lionsgate's Films with Miramax Films' movies witch Alliance Atlantis lost a year earlier before Lionsgate renamed it as Lionsgate Filmed Distribution to distribute Lionsgate's movies in America. when Lionsgate purchased Summit Entertainment in 2012. it was renamed as a new american distribution arm Lionsgate/Summit Distribution. in 2019, it was renamed American Artists Pictures when Lionsgate moved back to Canada.

American Artists became a US distributor of Lionsgate, Summit and New Line films to distribute all films in American Cinemas and home video.

Logos
the American Artists logo was inspired by the 1995 United Artists logo. the prototype version has one a and another a that is backwards look the 1970's Allied Artists logo, but the "aa" was a butterfly. the Original version was seen on Lionsgate Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Summit Entertainment movies only. the Stacked version was seen on classic movies from Victory, Cinépix, Vestron, Trimark, and Artisan. when Lionsgate spun off it's american distribution arm, the logo was the same as the 1968 United Artists logo, but "A Lionsgate Company" replaced "A Transamerica Company", "American" replaced "United", and the Lionsgate Constelation replaced the Transamerica T. also, the adreess was added, because 2700 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica is the headquarters of American Artists Pictures. the logo before September 2019 was seen on Lionsgate's movies between September 2019 and August 2020.

it's Marquee and Butterfly logo was seen on movie posters, Independent and Foreign films and Home Video distribution for Toll Bridge, and Carnival as well as Television distribution to all Lionsgate's titles.

the American Artists logo was seen on U.S. prints of future Lionsgate films.

Libraries

 * Lionsgate UK
 * Artisan Entertainment
 * Vestron Pictures
 * Trimark Pictures
 * Summit Entertainment
 * Starz
 * the Shirley Temple Filmography
 * Focus Features filmography (except for films from Laika Entertainment)
 * the pre-2010 and post-2019 New Line Cinema library
 * the pre-1996 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library
 * United Artists films in the 1980s (except for The Secret of NIMH, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and all 1980' Bond/Pink Panther/Rocky films, owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

American Distribution deals

 * for distributing British films in the USA only
 * Film4 Productions
 * Aardman Animations
 * Recorded Picture Company
 * Lightbulb Pictures


 * for distributing other European films in the USA only
 * Philippe Mounier Marketing Production
 * Martha Production
 * Toho Company
 * Lotte Entertainment