{"id":13281,"date":"2014-06-02T18:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13281"},"modified":"2014-06-03T18:54:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T10:54:53","slug":"entertainment-one-buys-canadian-distributor-phase-4-films-for-27-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/02\/entertainment-one-buys-canadian-distributor-phase-4-films-for-27-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment One buys Canadian distributor Phase 4 Films for $27 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/eone-entertainment-one.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13369\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/eone-entertainment-one.jpg\" alt=\"eone entertainment one\" width=\"741\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/eone-entertainment-one.jpg 741w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/eone-entertainment-one-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/eone-entertainment-one-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; Film distributor Entertainment One says it has reached an agreement to buy independent film and TV distributor Phase 4 Films for $27 million in cash and shares.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the transaction, Phase 4 president and CEO Berry Meyerowitz will assume the role of president at EOne&#8217;s U.S. film and distribution business.<\/p>\n<p>EOne holds the Canadian distribution rights for major franchises like &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; and &#8220;Twilight,&#8221; and distributes independent films in the United States, the U.K., Australia and Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Film distributor Entertainment One says it has reached an agreement to buy independent film and TV distributor Phase &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,2],"tags":[4542,4541],"class_list":["post-13281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ca","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment-one","tag-eone","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}