What is "lionsgate"

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, also known as Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc., and often shortened to Lionsgate, is an American entertainment company, legally incorporated in Canada. The company was formed on July 3, 1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. In addition to its well-known Lionsgate Films property, which generated the seventh-highest gross revenue in North America in 2015, the company contains other divisions such as Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate Interactive. It owns a variety of subsidiaries such as the American film production company Summit Entertainment, and Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication company acquired by Lionsgate in 2006.