Company type | Private |
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Industry | Entertainment (movie theaters) |
Founded | April 1978 |
Defunct | May 1998 |
Successors | Entertainment One AMC Theatres SP Media Group |
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Key people | Garth Drabinsky and Nat Taylor |
Parent | Cineplex Odeon Corporation |
Cineplex Odeon Films (later known as Odeon Films) was the film distribution unit of the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex Odeon Corporation. The company was originally named Pan-Canadian Film Distributors. In 1998, the company was purchased by Alliance Communications, whose film unit was merged into Alliance Atlantis, split from the company in 2007 as Alliance Films, and folded into Entertainment One, currently a subsidiary of Lionsgate Studios Corp.