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Artisan Entertainment Inc.
2700 Colorado Avenue, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404 * (310) 449-9200
Business Description The company is a leading independent entertainment company that distributes motion pictures in the home entertainment, theatrical and broadcast and pay television markets. Our primary asset is our extensive library of over 3,300 feature length and 3,400 non-feature length titles for which we have predominately United States and Canadian home entertainment distribution rights.
Filing
Information

Not yet
public

To Trade As  RTSN (NASNTL) Industry  Service (SIC 7822)
Type of Stock Offered Common Shares Filing Date  2/18/00
Domestic Shares Filed 6,000,000 Filing Range  $16.00 - $18.00
Foreign Shares Filed  0 Offering Amount  $102,000,000
Company Shares  6,000,000 Est. Expenses  - -
Selling Shrhldrs Shares  0 Post-IPO Shares  - -
Primary
Underwriting
Group
Underwriter NameParticipationUnderwriter Phone
Merrill Lynch & Co. Lead Manager (212) 449-4600
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Co-manager (212) 272-4850
ING Baring Furman Selz Co-manager (212) 309-8200
Income
Statement
and
Cash Flow
Summary
  Prior
Audited
Income
Latest
Unaudited
Income
  Full Year Audited Figures - - Months Ending
Figures in U.S. millions except per share data     12/31/97 12/31/98 12/31/99    
Revenues   - - 0.067 0.174 0.383 - -
Income from Oper.   - - 0.006 0.016 0.033 - -
Net Income   - - 0.002 0.003 0.016 - -
E.P.S   - - 0.140 0.090 1.430 - -
Revenue Growth (%)      - - 160.27 120.913   -
Net Income Growth (%)      - - 34.37 413.41   -
Oper. Profit Margin (%)    - - 9.08 9.50 8.64 - -
Net Profit Margin (%)    - - 3.41 1.76 4.09 - -
Cash Flow - Oper.     0.03 - -
Cash Flow - Inv.     0.00 - -
Cash Flow - Fin.     -0.03 - -
Balance Sheet
Summary
and
Financial
Ratios
Balance sheet as of: 12/31/99 Financial Ratios
Total Assets    0.31 Current Assets    - Current Ratio    -
Total Liab.    0.27 Current Liab.    - Debt Ratio    87.18%
Total Equity    0.04 Working Cap.    - Debt to Equity Ratio    6.80
Cash    0.01    Return on Assets   5.13%
Use Of
Proceeds
The proceeds from the proposed offering will be used to redeem senior subordinated secured notes plus premium and accrued and unpaid interest; and for general corporate purposes, including funding our working capital needs, acquisitions and investments.
Legal Counsel
Registrar
Auditor
Issuer's Law Firm  Kirkland & Ellis
Bank's Law Firm  Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Auditor  Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC
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Principal
Shareholders
Name of Shareholder% Owned
Before
% Owned
After
Audax Entertainment L.P. 35.98  
Alan D. Gordon 23.08  
CanPartners Investments IV, LLC 16.44  
Note: represents ownership of 5% or more prior to the offering.

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