Franchise Pictures

Franchise Pictures, LLC was an American independent motion picture production and distribution company, founded by Elie Samaha, Ashok Amritraj, and Andrew Stevens. They were known for their production in the action film genre. The company also had a short-lived video game arm, Franchise Interactive.

Franchise Pictures LLC
IndustryIndependent film studio
Founded1997
FounderElie Samaha
Andrew Stevens
Ashok Amritraj
Defunct2007
FateChapter 11 bankruptcy
Successor
  • Studio:
    Intertainment AG
    Luminosity Entertainment
  • Library:
    Morgan Creek Productions
    Revolution Studios
    Orange Holdings LLC
HeadquartersLos Angeles, California, United States
Key people
Elie Samaha
Andrew Stevens
SubsidiariesFranchise Interactive
Phoenician Entertainment
Franchise Pictures Classics

As of 2021, half of the Franchise Pictures library, along with that of ThinkFilm, is now owned by Orange Holdings LLC. Another half of the Franchise Pictures library is owned by Revolution Studios (via Morgan Creek Productions).

In 2004, in a case heard before a jury in a Los Angeles federal courtroom, Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures, et al., Judge Stotler awarded a plaintiff's verdict for $121.7 million against Franchise Pictures and Elie Samaha for fraudulent accounting. Samaha vowed to appeal but the fraud judgment destroyed Franchise's viability; the company and its subsidiaries all filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions on August 19, 2007.

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