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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".

Industry

February 15, 2024 (2024-02-15)

Thomas Zambeck
Brian Katz

Thomas Zambeck
Brian Katz

Umbrelic Entertainment

The original Anchor Bay Entertainment (formerly Video Treasures, Starmaker Entertainment, and Starz Home Entertainment) was an American home entertainment and production company owned by Starz Inc., 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.[1] In 2017, Lions Gate Entertainment folded Anchor Bay Entertainment into Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Formerly

Video Treasures (1985–1998)
Starmaker Entertainment (1988–1998)
Starz Home Entertainment (2007–2008)

1985 (1985)

August 29, 2017 (2017-08-29)

Anchor Bay Films

Anchor Bay Entertainment at the Wayback Machine (archived 2017-05-18)

Most of the libraries of , and Alexander Salkind (via StudioCanal) (now handled by Lionsgate)

EMI Films

Select titles under license from 20th Century Home Entertainment

20th Century Studios

Some of the films under license from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment such as Army of Darkness, The Car and Repo Man, although licensing on these have reverted to Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Universal Pictures

Davis-Panzer Productions ()

The Osterman Weekend

's Trancas International Pictures (production company behind the Halloween series)

Moustapha Akkad

Most of the 1950s–1980s Walt Disney Productions/ live-action library, as well as the film library of American Broadcasting Company, under license from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (The Black Hole, The Cat from Outer Space, Condorman, One Magic Christmas, The Devil and Max Devlin, The Happiest Millionaire, The Great Locomotive Chase, Return to Oz, Tex, The North Avenue Irregulars, The Watcher in the Woods, etc.), although licensing has reverted to Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, while the ABC library has been distributed by MGM Home Entertainment and Kino Lorber at different points.

Walt Disney Pictures

also owned by Starz Distribution

Overture Films

(now Lantern Entertainment) and Dimension Films from March 2011 until Anchor Bay went defunct in 2017 (now handled by Lionsgate)

The Weinstein Company

The libraries of , Prism Entertainment, Wizard Video and Regal Video

Media Home Entertainment

Worked alongside in re-releasing some of their older films on Blu-ray as well as distributing Return to Nuke 'Em High.

Troma Entertainment

1 & 2, from writer/director, Richard Boddington[21]

Against the Wild

Recognition[edit]

Anchor Bay Entertainment received a Special Achievement Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in June 2002. Anchor Bay was recognized as one of the "pioneers in DVD releases and home video entertainment" and "successful in releasing dramas, comedies, foreign films, children's programming, and most prominently genre films." Cited as highlights of Anchor Bay's releases were "the films of Hammer Studios, the works of Werner Herzog, Paul Verhoeven, Wim Wenders, John Woo, Monte Hellman and Sam Raimi".[24]

Video Treasures

Starmaker Entertainment

MNTEX Entertainment

Teal Entertainment

Burbank Video

Troy Gold

Viking Video Classics

Drive Entertainment

GTS Records

Media Home Entertainment

Strand Home Video

List of films released by Anchor Bay Entertainment

Official U.S. website

Official U.K. website

Official Australian website