Lantern Entertainment, LLC is an American independent

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

and

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

production company founded by Lantern Capital Partners on July 16, 2018. The studio was formed from the acquired assets of

The Weinstein Company The Weinstein Company, LLC (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) was an American independent film production and distribution company, which was founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein on March 10, 2005. TWC was one of the larg ...

(TWC) in a bankruptcy auction. TWC filed for bankruptcy as a result of co-founder

Harvey Weinstein Harvey Weinstein (, ; born March 19, 1952) is an American film producer and convicted sex offender. In 1979, Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent ...

being convicted of sexual harassment, assault, and rape. Lantern Entertainment is a separate company unaffiliated with the Weinsteins.

History

On July 16, 2018, the Dallas-based equity firm Lantern Capital Partners bought the assets of

(TWC) for $289 million. Lantern Entertainment was formed and assumed the rights to TWC's 277-film library. In November 2018, Lantern acquired full control of three

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films (''

Inglourious Basterds ''Inglourious Basterds'' is a 2009 epic film, epic war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger ...

'', ''

Django Unchained ''Django Unchained'' ( ) is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Tarantino's A Band Apart and Columbia Pictures, it stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry W ...

'' and ''

The Hateful Eight ''The Hateful Eight'' is a 2015 American western thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce De ...

''), originally released by The Weinstein Company, for $5.5 million. In February 2019, Lantern was reported to be reaching a settlement with

The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16 ...

, regarding several films that Lantern did not acquire (including ''

Scream 4 ''Scream 4'' (stylized as ''SCRE4M'') is a 2011 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. Produced by Outerbanks Entertainment and distributed by Dimension Films, it is the sequel to ''Scream 3'' (2000) and ...

'' and ''

The Matador ''The Matador'' is a 2005 black comedy crime film written and directed by Richard Shepard, and starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear. The film was released on DVD on July 4, 2006, and on HD DVD on December 19, 2006. Brosnan received praise an ...

''). On March 13, 2019, Lantern and

Gary Barber Gary Barber (born 1957) is a South African and American film producer. Barber was the chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is also co-founder of Spyglass Media Group. Biography Barber was born to a Jewish family in Johannesburg, South ...

relaunched

Spyglass Media Group Spyglass Media Group, LLC is an American independent film and television production and finance company based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded by Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum on August 21, 1998 as Spyglass Entertainment an ...

, which will host the former TWC library. Italian film distributor , cinema chain

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(which owned and operated

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) and later

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were brought in as minority holders. Lantern made a majority investment including its film library to Spyglass. In July 2019, Spyglass settled two major claims, including $11 million for

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regarding the TV series '' Scream'' (whose last season was delayed until July 2019, three years after the second season finale) and the film '' Sin City: A Dame to Kill For'' (which Lantern did not acquire). In March 2020, a federal judge ruled that Spyglass was not responsible for any of TWC's outgoing royalties, and it discontinued making movies and TV shows from now on and it was transferred into

and

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Assets

Current

Motion pictures *

(with

Lionsgate Studios Lionsgate Studios Corp. (simply known as Lionsgate Studios) is a Canadian-American film and television production and distribution conglomerate, domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia, and primarily based in Santa Monica, California. It was f ...

Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures is an American film studio and distribution arm of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group division of Warner Bros., both of which are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex ...

and ) Television * Lantern Television

Content libraries

* The Weinstein Company film library (also includes the post-2005

Dimension Films Dimension Films was an American independent film and television production and distribution label founded in 1992, and currently owned by independent studio Lantern Entertainment. Formally one of the American " mini-majors" (i.e., small to m ...

library; most of these were sold to Lionsgate through Spyglass Media Group)

Former

* Radius – dormant; folded into Lantern Entertainment *

– defunct; now as an in-name-only unit subsidiary

Radius

Radius (stylized as RADiUS; formerly Radius-TWC) is a dormant film label by Lantern Entertainment, formerly to TWC's division, for distribution of multi-platform video-on-demand and theatrical productions. It was launched in 2012 by Tom Quinn and Jason Janego, and specialized in niche and independent films rather than those aimed at mainstream audiences. , Radius had released about 35 films, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

20 Feet from Stardom ''20 Feet from Stardom'' is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Morgan Neville and produced by Gil Friesen, a music industry executive whose curiosity to know more about the lives of background singers inspired the making of the film ...

'', '' Only God Forgives'', '' Lovelace'', '' All the Boys Love Mandy Lane'', '' Man of Tai Chi'', '' Fed Up'', ''

Snowpiercer ''Snowpiercer'' () is a 2013 Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic action thriller film based on the French climate fiction graphic novel ''Le Transperceneige'' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The f ...

'', ''

Citizenfour ''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, a ...

'', '' Horns'', '' The Last Five Years'', and '' It Follows''. In August 2015, both Quinn and Janego left the company, with Quinn later founding

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with Tim League in 2017. NEON is set to produce a sequel to ''It Follows'', a film originally distributed by Radius. Filming would begin in 2024.

Filmography

Feature films

Television series

References

External links

* {{Film Studio Film production companies of the United States Film distributors of the United States Companies based in Dallas Mass media companies established in 2018 2018 establishments in Texas American independent film studios