CanWest Global Communications has unloaded the Canadian rights to the television library of its failed subsidiary Fireworks Entertainment, selling to Motion Picture Distribution LP for an undisclosed amount. The limited partnership essentially acts as the distribution arm of Alliance Atlantis Communications.

Days later, former Fireworks president and COO Adam Haight left CanWest, joining Toronto production house Shaftesbury Films.

CanWest announced in April 2004 that it planned to sell Fireworks, which had been developing television and film projects for the international market. Fireworks produced such series as Mutant X and Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda. Firestone stepped down from his management post in 2003.

A CanWest official says the international rights to Fireworks television library had already been divested in a previous transaction.