Lantern Pictures

Lantern Capital Pictures (DBA Lantern Pictures) is an American film studio and film distributor currently a division of Lantern Capital's Lantern Entertainment.

It is one of the "Big Eight" major American film studios and is located in the Sunset Las Palmas area of Los Angeles.

The studio was currently owned by Lantern Capital. Fox was purchased by Disney, but Fox's pre-2000 film and television library were sold to Lantern Capital Motion Picture Group to form Lantern Pictures in December 2020 and 21st Century Pictures is spun-off.

The Weinstein Company was bankrupt and bought by Lantern Capital in May 2018. on August 12, 2019 Disney announced to sell Fox's 2,000 of it's pre-2000 live action film and tv library to Lantern. after Lantern Capital's December 15, 2024 acquisition of Fox's pre-3/31/2000 film and tv library, Lantern was born. as a result, Lantern is a major studio of Hollywood and a member of the MPAA.

it has it's home video division, television studio (at the Occidental Studios), it's animation department in New York City, and multiple production facility.

Divisions

 * Lantern Pictures
 * Lantern Television
 * Lantern Home Entertainment
 * Lantern Cartoon Studios
 * Lantern Records
 * Lantern Interactive
 * Lantern Digital
 * Lantern Studios
 * Lantern Distribution
 * Lantern International

Owned by Lantern

 * The Weinstein Company
 * Miramax Entertainment
 * Dimension Films
 * Twentieth Century Fox's Live-Action film and television library prior to February 28, 2019
 * Post-1989 New World Pictures library
 * 20th Century Fox Television library prior to July 31, 2019
 * 20th Television library
 * Programs produced by Fox 21 Television Studios
 * Metromedia Producers library
 * FNM Films library
 * Post-1991 New World Television library
 * Four Star Television library
 * Gold Key Entertainment library
 * Genesis Entertainment library
 * Divorce Court

Not Owned by Lantern

 * Fox's post-2000 Film and Television library (remains with Disney Corporation of America)
 * MTM Enterprises library (sold to Entertainment One)
 * Fox Film library (now in the public domain)
 * Twentieth Century Pictures library (now in the public domain)
 * Fox Searchlight Pictures pre-2019 film library (spin off by 21st Century Pictures)
 * all Fox-distributed Fuzzy Door Productions media (sold to Sunking Pictures)
 * all Fox animated media, including The Simpsons and Bob's Burgers and including movies like Anastasia, The Book of Life, FernGully, Titan A.E., Bartok the Magnificent, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs (remains with Disney Corporation of America)
 * all Fox-distributed Sullivan Bluth Studios films (Banjo the Woodpile Cat, Thumbelina and A Troll in Central Park) (remains with Disney Corporation of America)
 * all Blue Sky Studios media (remains with Disney Corporation of America)
 * Distribution Rights to A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and the prequel Star Wars trilogy and other Lucasfilm media (remains with Disney Corporation of America due to Lucasfilm owning Star Wars)
 * all Fox-distributed Marvel Studios media (remains with Disney Corporation of America due to ownership of Marvel Comics)
 * all of Fox's film franchises (Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Avatar, Tooth Fairy, Independence Day, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Night at the Museum, Alita: Battle Angel, The Darkest Minds, Home Alone, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Kid Who Would Be King, Marmaduke, Garfield, Taken, Big Momma's House, Ice Age and Rio) (remains with Disney Corporation of America)
 * some films like The Greatest Showman (remains with Disney Corporation of America)
 * all co-productions, sucj as Titanic (remaining ownership given to DreamWorks Holdings SKG)
 * Fox Star Studios library (sold to Viacom on August 30, 2019 and are now owned by Verizon Pictures)

Films
all films such as The Thief and the Cobbler and Big Cheese City are distributed by Lantern for it's future movies.

Headquarters
Hollywood's Lantern Studios was the new headquarters and has 18 stages, the Line 204 building, and the Silver Layne Studios building. the Century City Studios has been sold to 21st Century Pictures on September 20, 2019.

Acquisition

 * On July 16, 2018, the Dallas-based equity firm Lantern Capital Partners bought the assets of The Weinstein Company for $289 million.
 * In November 2018, Lantern acquired full control of three Quentin Tarantino films, originally released by The Weinstein Company, for $6.1 million.
 * On December 19, 2019, Lantern acquired Pre-2019 Fox live action film and television library (except for animated media, film franchises, family friendly films, Star Wars and co-productions with Lucasfilm and Marvel) from Disney.
 * On July 3, 2021, Lantern bought and folded beIN Media Group to form Lantern Pictures
 * On December 4, 2021, Lantern bought Raleigh Enterprises, the Sunset Las Palmas Studios and Line 204 Studios.