Lionsgate has intercepted TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com from an investor group that had agreed to buy the assets.
Macrovision said Monday that it has bowed out of an agreement to sell the network and Web site to Allen Shapiro and One Equity Partners for $255 million and instead will sell them to Lionsgate for the same price.
Macrovision, a technology firm known for its digital rights management solutions, said it preferred a sale to Lionsgate because of that company's existing cash and available funds and because the new deal is void of financial performance requirements.
The previous deal, for example, contained a $45 million earn-out provision through 2012 that might have driven the purchase price below $255 million.
Macrovision also said Monday that the deal with Lionsgate has a better chance of closing than did the deal with Shapiro and One Equity Partners.
Shapiro, a former CEO of Dick Clark Prods., and...
Macrovision said Monday that it has bowed out of an agreement to sell the network and Web site to Allen Shapiro and One Equity Partners for $255 million and instead will sell them to Lionsgate for the same price.
Macrovision, a technology firm known for its digital rights management solutions, said it preferred a sale to Lionsgate because of that company's existing cash and available funds and because the new deal is void of financial performance requirements.
The previous deal, for example, contained a $45 million earn-out provision through 2012 that might have driven the purchase price below $255 million.
Macrovision also said Monday that the deal with Lionsgate has a better chance of closing than did the deal with Shapiro and One Equity Partners.
Shapiro, a former CEO of Dick Clark Prods., and...
- 1/5/2009
- by By Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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