Information: - Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., doing business as Lionsgate, is an American, Canadian-domiciled entertainment & media company. The company was formed on July 10, 1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California. - The Spirit is a 2008 American neo-noir superhero film , written and directed by Frank Miller and starring Gabriel Macht , Eva Mendes , Sarah Paulson , Dan Lauria , Paz Vega , Jaime King , Scarlett Johansson , and Samuel L. Jackson . The film is based on the newspaper comic strip The Spirit by Will Eisner . OddLot and Lionsgate produced the film . The Spirit was released in the United States on December 25 , 2008 , and on DVD and Blu - ray on April 14 , 2009 . The film was a box office flop and received negative reviews , with critics citing its unnecessary humor ; melodramatic acting and style ; lack of originality ; sexist , exploitative overtones ; and the stark divergence from the source material . - Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and film producer. He achieved prominence and critical acclaim in the early 1990s with films such as "Jungle Fever" (1991), "Patriot Games" (1992), "Amos & Andrew" (1993), "True Romance" (1993), "Jurassic Park" (1993) and his collaborations with director Quentin Tarantino including "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Django Unchained" (2012), and "The Hateful Eight" (2015). He is a highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including "Die Hard with a Vengeance" (1995), "Unbreakable" (2000), "Shaft" (2000), "The 51st State" (2001), "Black Snake Moan" (2006), "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), and the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy (19992005), as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. - Gabriel Macht (born January 22, 1972) is an American actor. Macht is known for playing The Spirit in the eponymous 2008 film adaptation, and for his role as Harvey Specter on the USA Network series "Suits". - Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action thriller film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006, in North America. The film was written by David Dalessandro, John Heffernan, and Sheldon Turner and follows the events of hundreds of snakes being released on a passenger plane in an attempt to kill a trial witness. - Sarah Catharine Paulson (born December 17, 1974) is an American actress. After beginning her acting career on stage, she starred in the 1990s television series "American Gothic" (199596) and "Jack & Jill" (19992001). Paulson later appeared in comedy films such as "What Women Want" (2000) and "Down with Love" (2003), and had dramatic roles in films such as "Path to War" (2002) and "The Notorious Bettie Page" (2005). From 2006 to 2007, Paulson played the role of Harriet Hayes in the NBC comedy-drama series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip", for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2008, she starred as Ellen Dolan in the superhero noir film "The Spirit". - The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Topffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as "The Adventures of Tintin". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World WarII era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia. - Jungle Fever is a 1991 American romance drama film written, produced, and directed by Spike Lee, and stars Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, and Anthony Quinn. As Spike Lee's fifth feature-length film, the film explores an interracial relationshipits conception and downfallagainst the urban backdrop of the streets of New York City in the 1990s. - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building (formerly known as the GE Building) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was originally created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network's official emblem in 1979. - A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the development of the internet, they began to appear online as web comics. There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 episodes. - Path to War is a 2002 American biographical television film, produced by HBO and directed by John Frankenheimer that deals directly with the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and his cabinet members. It was the final film (theatrical or made-for-TV) that was directed by Frankenheimer, who died seven weeks after the film debuted on HBO. - USA Network (commonly referred to as simply USA) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable division of NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity due to its original programming; USA also broadcasts syndicated reruns of current and former "network television" (i.e., broadcast) series and theatrically-released feature films, as well as limited sports programming. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'distributor' with the subject 'the spirit '. Choices: - hbo - history - japan - lions gate entertainment - nbc - nbcuniversal cable - new line cinema - spike - usa network
Answer:
lions gate entertainment