Voiceover: Little firms that could need to zig and not zag

April 04, 2008 Now obviously such a comment is a compliment to the 8-year-old reinvented Lionsgate, which under vice chairman Michael Burns and co-chairman and CEO Jon Feltheimer has ballooned from an $80 million also-ran to a $1.2 billion mini-major in market-cap terms. Not in any case of a size that allows them to play in the same big-stakes game as the big boys at the six Hollywood studios that make up the MPA. Methodically and unsexily, starting with a steady home video biz, buyouts of key libraries, cashing in on cable (think "Weeds" for Showtime or "Mad Men" for AMC), eventually landing an Oscar ("Crash") as well as snapping up Joe Drake's Mandate, Debmar-Mercury and the Hit catalog.

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