Lionsgate Licenses Ateliere Creative Technologies Platform to Manage, Distribute Its Catalog (Exclusive)

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Lionsgate is licensing a proprietary cloud tech platform from Ateliere Creative Technologies to help manage the studio’s content library and distribution of assets to streaming services.

They’re keeping the financial terms of the deal under wraps.Lionsgate will deploy Ateliere Connect media supply chain platform to serve as the content hub for the studio’s 17,000-plus film and TV title library, spanning blockbuster brands and franchises including John Wick, “The Hunger Games,” The Twilight Saga, “Dirty Dancing,” The Expendables, “Power,” “Now You See Me” and “Mad Men”Ateliere deploys its platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is “leveraging next generation” services from Amazon that are faster and more efficient, able to “deploy in days and weeks versus months or years,” founder and CEO of Ateliere Dan Goman told The Wrap.One of the areas that the partnership will help Lionsgate will be in addressing the duplication of content, Goman said, adding it can get expensive and redundant when content libraries are moved into the cloud.

As an example, he cited an unnamed company was able to trim its operating costs for its supply chain down from $90 million to $25 million.Goman said the deal shows Lionsgate sees potential in Ateliere’s capabilities as it looks towards the future and “positions themselves for success going forward.

It starts with a supply chain that can handle the demands and can operate at the speed of digital.”“Ateliere Connect will play an invaluable role in helping us migrate our distribution assets into the cloud and effectively transform our operational workflows by taking advantage of the efficiencies of a cloud ecosystem.