NATURE OF OPERATIONS

9 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

NATURE OF OPERATIONS

NATURE OF OPERATIONS

Cinedigm Corp. was incorporated in Delaware on March 31, 2000 (“Cinedigm”, and collectively with its subsidiaries, the “Company,” "we," "us," or similar pronouns). We are (i) a leading distributor and aggregator of independent movie, television and other short form content, managing a distribution rights library of close to 50,000 titles and episodes released across digital, physical, theatrical, home and mobile entertainment platforms and (ii) a leading servicer of digital cinema assets on more than 12,000 movie screens in both North America, Australia and New Zealand.

We report our financial results in the following reportable segments: (1) the first digital cinema deployment (“Phase I Deployment”), (2) the second digital cinema deployment (“Phase II Deployment”), (3) digital cinema services (“Services”) and (4) media content and entertainment group (“Content & Entertainment” or "CEG"). The Phase I Deployment and Phase II Deployment segments are the financing vehicles and administrators for our digital cinema equipment (the “Systems”) installed in movie theatres throughout the United States, and in Australia and New Zealand, which are non-recourse to the other segments of our business. Our Services segment provides fee based support to more than 12,000 movie screens in our Phase I Deployment and Phase II Deployment segments as well as directly to exhibitors and other third party customers in the form of monitoring, billing, collections and verification services. Our Content & Entertainment segment is focused on: (1) ancillary market aggregation and distribution of entertainment content, and (2) branded and curated over-the-top ("OTT") digital network business providing entertainment channels and applications. We are structured so that our digital cinema business (collectively, the Phase I Deployment, Phase II Deployment and Services segments) operates independently from our Content & Entertainment segment.

Investments in which we do not have a controlling interest or are not the primary beneficiary but have the ability to exert significant influence, are accounted for under the equity method of accounting. Noncontrolling interests for which we have been determined to have a controlling financial interest are consolidated and recorded net of tax as net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interest. See Note 4 - Other Interests to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of our noncontrolling and majority interests.