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Doug Alexander \/ Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n

Armed with a little help from a Netflix Inc. deal and tunes of The Beatles, Canada\u2019s Thunderbird Films Inc. is considering an initial public offering.<\/p>\n

A listing would give investors a chance to buy into the production firm\u2019s Beatles-inspired “Beat Bugs” animated children\u2019s series, a “Blade Runner” sequel and a catalog of more than 500 hours of Canadian and U.S. television content.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a solid foundation of intellectual property, assets and shareholders and we are in what we\u2019d call a state of readiness to go public,” Chief Executive Officer Tim Gamble, 59, said in an interview from Vancouver, where the company is based. \u201cWe\u2019re prepared to, if we think it\u2019s a good opportunity.”<\/p>\n

Netflix, the world\u2019s largest paid online TV network, said Wednesday in a statement it\u2019ll debut Beat Bugs this August. Thunderbird is co-producer and an investor in the show about the adventures of five whimsical insects with themes based on Beatles music and sung by artists including Eddie Vedder, P!nk and Chris Cornell. Thunderbird\u2019s Atomic Cartoons studio, which employs 240 people in Vancouver, is doing the animation. Filmmaker Josh Wakely is writing, directing and producing the series after he secured a deal with Sony\/ATV Music Publishing LLC for worldwide rights to record Beatles song covers for the show.<\/p>\n

Lions Gate<\/h3>\n

Beat Bugs is one of about 14 projects being undertaken by Thunderbird companies, which include Reunion Pictures, Great Pacific Media, U.K.-based theatrical distributor Soda Pictures and a joint venture with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Hollywood\u2019s biggest independent movie studio.<\/p>\n

Thunderbird is also involved in a sequel to\u00a0Ridley Scott\u2019s 1982 science fiction film “Blade Runner”, with filming set to start in Budapest this July, according to Gamble. Gamble, Scott and Thunderbird board director Frank Giustra are executive producers on the film starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling. Thunderbird owns 50 percent of the underlying rights for Blade Runner 2 and licensed the feature film rights to Alcon Entertainment LLC, Gamble said.<\/p>\n

Bigger Better<\/h3>\n

\u201cWhat really makes us unique is the size of the brands we\u2019re involved in,” Gamble said. \u201cIn the science fiction world it doesn\u2019t come much bigger than Blade Runner and in the music world it doesn\u2019t come much bigger than the Lennon and McCartney catalog.”<\/p>\n

Thurderbird has drawn industry expertise for its board and management from people such as Giustra, the former mining financier who founded Lions Gate, as well as one-time CTVglobemedia CEO Ivan Fecan as executive chairman and board director Francesco Aquilini, whose family owns the Vancouver Canucks National Hockey League team. The company\u2019s investors include its directors and Difference Capital Financial Inc., a Toronto-based investment firm focused on technology and media.<\/p>\n

Thunderbird is working with investment bankers at Canaccord Genuity Group Inc., National Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank for its plans, including the potential public offering, which Gamble anticipates could happen within the next couple years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing some M&A in the meantime, we\u2019ve been doing acquisitions and will continue to do that,” he said. “As we do that it changes our size and scale, so probably the longer we wait, the larger the IPO we\u2019ll end up doing.”<\/p>\n

Gamble said he\u2019d prefer an IPO within a C$100 million ($72 million) range, though nothing has been decided.<\/p>\n

“Bigger is better,” he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to be a micro public company.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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