Lion's Gate Films (1970s company)

Lion's Gate Films was a production company established by Robert Altman in the 1970s. It is not to be confused with Lionsgate Films.

Altman established the company after the success of MASH. Named after a bridge that leads into Vancouver, it was originally devised to produce his own movies.[1] In 1976 it expanded to make films from others such as Alan Rudolph and Robert Benton.[2][3]

In 1982 Altman sold the company for $2.3 million to a group headed by Jonathan Taplin. "I feel my time has run out," said Altman at the time. "Every studio wants Raiders of the Lost Ark. The movies I want to make are movies the studios don't want. What they want to make, I don't."[4]

Select films

Notes

  • McGilligan, Patrick (1989). Robert Altman : jumping off the cliff : a biography of the great American director. St. Martin's Press.

References

  1. ^ McGilligan p 283-248
  2. ^ "Rudolph's version of isolation". The Los Angeles Times. 6 February 1976. p. 12 Part 4.
  3. ^ McGilligan pp 479-481
  4. ^ "Robert Altman Sells studio for $2.3 million". New York Times. 11 July 1981. p. 15.
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