Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (doing business as Lionsgate and also known as Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc.) is a Canadian–American entertainment company. The company was formed on July 3, 1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. In addition to its well-known Lionsgate Films property, which generated the seventh-highest gross revenue in North America in 2015, the company contains other divisions such as Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate Interactive. It owns a variety of subsidiaries such as the American film production company Summit Entertainment, and Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication company acquired by Lionsgate in 2006.