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Anchor Bay Entertainment
The revived Anchor Bay Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company owned by Umbrelic Entertainment co-founders Thomas Zambeck and Brian Katz. Anchor Bay Entertainment markets and releases "new release genre films, undiscovered treasures, cult classics, and remastered catalog releases".
The original Anchor Bay Entertainment, formerly Video Treasures, Starmaker Entertainment, and Starz Home Entertainment, was an American home entertainment distributor owned by Starz Distribution, which is a subsidiary of Lionsgate. Anchor Bay Entertainment marketed and released feature films, television series, television specials and short films on DVD and Blu-ray. In 2004, Anchor Bay agreed to have its releases distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and renewed their deal in 2011. In 2017, Lions Gate Entertainment folded Anchor Bay Entertainment into Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
The first incarnation of Anchor Bay Entertainment dates its origins back to two separate home video distributors: Video Treasures, formed in 1985, and Starmaker Entertainment, founded in 1988. Both companies sold budget items, including reissues of previously released home video programming, at discount prices.
Video Treasures started with public domain titles, and later made licensing deals with Color Systems Technology, Vestron Video, Heron Communications (including Media Home Entertainment and Hi-Tops Video), Britt Allcroft (specifically the Thomas the Tank Engine series, which was inherited from Strand Home Video when Video Treasures purchased that label from Video Collection International in December 1993), Trans World Entertainment, Regal Video, Virgin Vision, Hal Roach Studios, Video Communications Inc., Jerry Lewis Productions, and Orion Pictures, among others.
Starmaker's major distributions were films from the then-recently, out-of-business New World Pictures and programs previously licensed to New World Pictures' video division. The rights to these titles were secured in 1990. Viacom-produced programs and Saturday Night Live compilations were other notable Starmaker releases.
Both companies competed with each other for years. In January 1989, Video Treasures was acquired by the Handleman Company. In August 1991, Video Treasures acquired MNTEX Entertainment, a discount VHS distributor based in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
In June 1994, Starmaker Entertainment was acquired by Handleman as well. Eventually, both companies merged to form a new corporate umbrella: Anchor Bay Entertainment, in May 1995. Other budget home video and music labels became part of Anchor Bay, such as MNTEX Entertainment, Teal Entertainment, and Burbank Video, which were previously part of Video Treasures. Both the Video Treasures and Starmaker labels, along with the MNTEX and Burbank Video labels, were phased out a couple years later.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Anchor Bay specialized in the release of horror films, particularly cult films and slasher films from the 1970s and 1980s.[citation needed] One of its first releases was Prom Night. It also released Halloween (as well as its 4th, and 5th sequels), Hellraiser, and many others, leading the home video market for obscure and vintage horror films.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
The revived Anchor Bay Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company owned by Umbrelic Entertainment co-founders Thomas Zambeck and Brian Katz. Anchor Bay Entertainment markets and releases "new release genre films, undiscovered treasures, cult classics, and remastered catalog releases".
The original Anchor Bay Entertainment, formerly Video Treasures, Starmaker Entertainment, and Starz Home Entertainment, was an American home entertainment distributor owned by Starz Distribution, which is a subsidiary of Lionsgate. Anchor Bay Entertainment marketed and released feature films, television series, television specials and short films on DVD and Blu-ray. In 2004, Anchor Bay agreed to have its releases distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and renewed their deal in 2011. In 2017, Lions Gate Entertainment folded Anchor Bay Entertainment into Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
The first incarnation of Anchor Bay Entertainment dates its origins back to two separate home video distributors: Video Treasures, formed in 1985, and Starmaker Entertainment, founded in 1988. Both companies sold budget items, including reissues of previously released home video programming, at discount prices.
Video Treasures started with public domain titles, and later made licensing deals with Color Systems Technology, Vestron Video, Heron Communications (including Media Home Entertainment and Hi-Tops Video), Britt Allcroft (specifically the Thomas the Tank Engine series, which was inherited from Strand Home Video when Video Treasures purchased that label from Video Collection International in December 1993), Trans World Entertainment, Regal Video, Virgin Vision, Hal Roach Studios, Video Communications Inc., Jerry Lewis Productions, and Orion Pictures, among others.
Starmaker's major distributions were films from the then-recently, out-of-business New World Pictures and programs previously licensed to New World Pictures' video division. The rights to these titles were secured in 1990. Viacom-produced programs and Saturday Night Live compilations were other notable Starmaker releases.
Both companies competed with each other for years. In January 1989, Video Treasures was acquired by the Handleman Company. In August 1991, Video Treasures acquired MNTEX Entertainment, a discount VHS distributor based in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
In June 1994, Starmaker Entertainment was acquired by Handleman as well. Eventually, both companies merged to form a new corporate umbrella: Anchor Bay Entertainment, in May 1995. Other budget home video and music labels became part of Anchor Bay, such as MNTEX Entertainment, Teal Entertainment, and Burbank Video, which were previously part of Video Treasures. Both the Video Treasures and Starmaker labels, along with the MNTEX and Burbank Video labels, were phased out a couple years later.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Anchor Bay specialized in the release of horror films, particularly cult films and slasher films from the 1970s and 1980s.[citation needed] One of its first releases was Prom Night. It also released Halloween (as well as its 4th, and 5th sequels), Hellraiser, and many others, leading the home video market for obscure and vintage horror films.