Franchise Pictures
American motion picture production and distribution company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Franchise Pictures, LLC was an American independent motion picture production and distribution company, founded by Elie Samaha, Ashok Amritraj, and Andrew Stevens. They were known for their production in the action film genre. The company also had a short-lived video game arm, Franchise Interactive.
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| Industry | Independent film studio |
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| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Elie Samaha Andrew Stevens Ashok Amritraj |
| Defunct | 2007 |
| Fate | Chapter 11 bankruptcy |
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| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States[1] |
Key people | Elie Samaha Andrew Stevens |
| Subsidiaries | Franchise Interactive Phoenician Entertainment[2] Franchise Pictures Classics[2] |
As of 2021, half of the Franchise Pictures library, along with that of ThinkFilm, is now owned by Orange Holdings LLC.[3] Another half of the Franchise Pictures library is owned by Revolution Studios (via Morgan Creek Productions).[4][5]
In 2004, in a case heard before a jury in a Los Angeles federal courtroom, Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures, et al.,[6] Judge Stotler awarded a plaintiff's verdict for $121.7 million against Franchise Pictures and Elie Samaha for fraudulent accounting. Samaha vowed to appeal but the fraud judgment destroyed Franchise's viability; the company and its subsidiaries all filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions on August 19, 2007.[7]