Fireworks Entertainment
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| Industry | Television and film production and distribution |
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| Fate | Name changed to Content Television |
| Founded | 1996 as Fireworks Pictures, 2005 as Fireworks Entertainment |
| Defunct | March 14, 2011 |
| Headquarters | Originally Canada then United Kingdom from 2005 |
Key people | Jay Firestone |
| Parent | Content Media Corporation PLC |
Fireworks Entertainment was an independent studio founded by Jay Firestone in 1996 to produce, distribute and finance television shows and feature films.[1] Fireworks was acquired by Canwest Global[1] in May 1998, and was later sold to ContentFilm (production company of The Cooler),[2] a British company, in April 2005. Over the years Fireworks has amassed a significant catalogue of television shows and movies (Under the Fireworks Pictures label)
From March 14, 2011 Fireworks International became Content Television under the umbrella Content Media Corporation PLC.[3]
Court cases
The original company was sued by Sony regarding Queen of Swords[4] and by 20th Century Fox regarding Mutant X.[5]
Television shows (As Fireworks Entertainment)
TV shows filmed in widescreen 16:9 from 2000 but generally broadcast in 4:3 pan and scan. The widescreen versions are available on DVD.
- 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd
- Adventure Inc.
- Andromeda (Gene Roddenberry)
- Black Hole High
- Caitlin's Way
- Even Stevens (co-produced by Disney Channel)
- FX: The Series
- La Femme Nikita (co-produced by Warner Bros. Television)
- Mutant X
- Queen of Swords
- Relic Hunter
- RoboCop: Prime Directives (TV miniseries)
- Zoe Busiek: Wild Card
- Young Dracula
Movies (As Fireworks Pictures)
- A Wrinkle in Time
- An American Rhapsody
- Better Than Sex
- Faithless
- Greenfingers
- Hardball
- Innocence
- Interstate 60
- Me Without You
- Passionada
- Raising Victor Vargas
- Rat Race
- Simon Magus
- Solas
- The Believer
- The Man from Elysian Fields
- Who is Cletis Tout?
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fireworks. |
- 1 2 The Believer - Jay Firestone Archived September 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "News : Selected Press Clippings". ContentFilm. 2006-01-24. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
- ↑ "Content Media PLC retrieved 5 Nov 2011". Contentmediacorp.com. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
- ↑ Mark Litwak (2001-11-01). "Retrieved November 15, 2009". Marklitwak.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
- ↑ "Retrieved February 21, 2010". Openjurist.org. Retrieved 2012-12-29.