The Kushner-Locke Company

In 1983, the company was established by Donald Kushner and Peter Locke, the former of which was a producer on the movie Tron, and the latter was a sales agent, and member of the Channing/Debin/Locke Company (which he co-founded with Stockard Channing and David Debin). In January 1987, it sold a minority interest to Atlantic Entertainment Group thus renaming it Atlantic/Kushner-Locke. That year, in 1987, it had attempted to merge with television syndicator All American Television to form a single company that paid $36 million in a single transaction in order to establish it as a public company without an effort of an underwriting of an initial public offering, but the merger talks between Atlantic/Kushner-Locke and All American Television were never realized.[2] Atlantic sold back its share in July 1988, and the company reverted to its original name.[3]

In 1992, the company attempted a merger with Rysher Entertainment, but the deal's plans collapsed when neither company could come to an accord over who would get control of the combined company.[4][5] On December 14, 1992, Patricia Clifford, who had just left Interscope Communications, launched a Kushner-Locke affiliated production company, whose intent was to produce telemovies.[6]

On April 29, 1997, Pascal Borno was named head of Kushner-Locke International.[7] On March 12, 1998, Kushner/Locke International scored picture-pact deals with various motion picture companies, as well as with television networks around the world.[8]

In 2001, Kushner-Locke filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and has operated under this stature since then.[9] In November of that same year, Artisan Entertainment (now owned by Lionsgate) acquired the North American sales rights to its more than 300 titles.[10] In 2013, the Kushner-Locke library was acquired by Multicom Entertainment from Lionsgate.[11]

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