Maple Pictures

Maple Pictures Corporation was the distribution arm of Alliance Films. It was formed on April 13, 2005 when Lions Gate Entertainment demerged to two companies—Lions Gate Entertainment and Maple Pictures (formerly Cinepix Film Properties).

Background
The company describes itself as a "genre-savvy independent film company making a mark on the industry through its grassroots acquisition, production and distribution of diverse and distinctive filmed entertainment". Maple also has an extensive home video catalogue, which was built up largely by Lions Gate Entertainment's acquisition of several other independent studios.

In 2008, Maple Pictures sold Lionsgate's pre-2005 movies and Cineplex's library to Lions Gate Entertainment and acquired the rights to distribute Miramax films which Alliance Films lost acquisition to earlier in 2007. On August 10, 2011, Alliance Films bought Maple Pictures from Lions Gate Entertainment (Maple's former owner) for a sum of 38.5 million dollars. On January 9, 2013, Entertainment One acquired Alliance.

End of Maple Pictures
in 2011, Maple sold Canadian distribution unit back to Lionsgate and was bought by Alliance Films, witch forbids Maple to release Lionsgate's movies, witch from 2020 on distributed by a new distribution unit called American Artists Pictures.