Fireworks Entertainment was founded by Jay Firestone in 1996 to produce, distribute and finance television shows and feature films.Fireworks was acquired by Canwest Global in May 1998, and was later sold to ContentFilm, a British company, in April 2005. Over the years Fireworks has amassed a significant catalogue of television shows and movies (Under the Fireworks Pictures label)
 

From March 14, 2011 Fireworks International became Content Television under the umbrella Content Media Corporation PLC.

 

Court cases

The original company was sued by Sony regarding Queen of Swords and by 20th Century Fox regarding Mutant X.

 

Television shows (As Fireworks Entertainment)

TV shows filmed in widescreen 16:9 from 2000 but generally broadcast in 4:3 pan and scan. The widescreen versions are available on DVD.

 

• 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd

• Adventure Inc.

• Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

• Black Hole High

• Caitlin's Way

• Even Stevens

• La Femme Nikita

• Mutant X

• Queen of Swords

• Relic Hunter

• RoboCop: Prime Directives (TV miniseries)

• Zoe Busiek: Wild Card

 

Movies (As Fireworks Pictures)

• Solas

• Me Without You

• Better Than Sex

• Rat Race

• Who is Cletis Tout?

• Hardball

• The Believer

• An American Rhapsody

• Interstate 60

• A Wrinkle in Time

• The Man from Elysian Fields

• Innocence

• Greenfingers

• Raising Victor Vargas

• Simon Magus

• Faithless

• Passionada

 

References

1. ^ a b The Believer - Jay Firestone

2. ^ ContentFilm : News : Selected Press Clippings

3. ^ Content Media PLC retrieved 5 Nov 2011

4. ^ Retrieved November 15, 2009

5. ^ http://openjurist.org/277/f3d/253/twentieth-v-marvel Retrieved February 21, 2010