what is Lions Gate worth?
In a nutshell, its hard to say for sure other than that its going to be worth what the highest bidder is willing to pay for it in an arms length transaction. However, we can start to get some idea of its value based on a couple of related transactions, one of which occurred very recently. As has been widely reported in the press, a fund controlled by George Soros, like Carl Icahn one of the savviest investors in the world, just acquired the DreamWorks library from Paramount for $900 million. With films like Gladiator and American Beauty, the DreamWorks library certainly contains high quality titles, but so does the Lions Gate library. Furthermore, with just 59 titles, it in no way comes close to having the breadth or depth of the 8,000 titles in Lions Gates vault. The sale of MGM in 2004 for $4.8 billion sheds further light on the value of a great library. I believe it is fair to say that Sony and its partners acquired MGM for its 4,000 title library, not for its production capabilitie
