Information about Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment is a major independent home entertainment distribution company. It was founded in 1981 and handles digital media distribution of television programs, public domain and copyrighted feature films, music content, foreign cinema, special interest titles and much more. As of 2007 Image entertainement has released over 2000 exclusive titles to DVD and over 200 exclusive audio titles.
Image Entertainment was founded at the beginning of the LaserDisc era as an outlet to distribute product for that format and taking advantage of its key features, including sound and picture quality that surpassed VHS and Beta. Some of their first major releases were of music concerts. Adult movie titles were also a large part of their early output. That division was split off into a separate company called LaserDisc Entertainment after Image began distributing Disney/Buena Vista titles in the early 1990s- Disney wouldn't have agreed to the deal unless they dropped it.
As Image Entertainment grew and became more established, it managed to successfully secure output deals with major studios (such as 20th Century Fox and Universal) for distributing their LaserDisc product.
Even though the LaserDisc format waned in popularity, Image continued to establish itself as a major home video distributor and a primary leader in LaserDisc product. It also started its own monthly print magazine of upcoming LaserDisc titles.
When the LaserDisc format gave way to DVD, Image restructered and focused on DVD releases. Since the advent of DVD, Image has managed to score two major acquisitions for home video: the entire CBS series of the original Twilight Zone, and the John Ritter/Markie Post series Hearts Afire, the rights to the latter series having been awarded by the John Ritter estate.
Image has also released LaserDisc/DVD editions of public domain films such as A Farewell to Arms and the 1937 version of A Star Is Born.
Today, Image continues to release a wide variety of programs (from television series to feature films to recent concerts) that are better suited for the emerging DVD format, including the O Entertainment Thumbs! franchise. Image competes with Anchor Bay Entertainment in releasing many horror films in the public domain. This results in many editions of the same films.
On March 29, 2007, it was announced that Image Entertainment had entered into a definitive agreement to be sold to investor group BTP Acquisition Company, LLC for approximately $132 million.
Image Entertainment was founded at the beginning of the LaserDisc era as an outlet to distribute product for that format and taking advantage of its key features, including sound and picture quality that surpassed VHS and Beta. Some of their first major releases were of music concerts. Adult movie titles were also a large part of their early output. That division was split off into a separate company called LaserDisc Entertainment after Image began distributing Disney/Buena Vista titles in the early 1990s- Disney wouldn't have agreed to the deal unless they dropped it.
As Image Entertainment grew and became more established, it managed to successfully secure output deals with major studios (such as 20th Century Fox and Universal) for distributing their LaserDisc product.
Even though the LaserDisc format waned in popularity, Image continued to establish itself as a major home video distributor and a primary leader in LaserDisc product. It also started its own monthly print magazine of upcoming LaserDisc titles.
When the LaserDisc format gave way to DVD, Image restructered and focused on DVD releases. Since the advent of DVD, Image has managed to score two major acquisitions for home video: the entire CBS series of the original Twilight Zone, and the John Ritter/Markie Post series Hearts Afire, the rights to the latter series having been awarded by the John Ritter estate.
Image has also released LaserDisc/DVD editions of public domain films such as A Farewell to Arms and the 1937 version of A Star Is Born.
Today, Image continues to release a wide variety of programs (from television series to feature films to recent concerts) that are better suited for the emerging DVD format, including the O Entertainment Thumbs! franchise. Image competes with Anchor Bay Entertainment in releasing many horror films in the public domain. This results in many editions of the same films.
On March 29, 2007, it was announced that Image Entertainment had entered into a definitive agreement to be sold to investor group BTP Acquisition Company, LLC for approximately $132 million.
Releases
Films- Purgatory house
- Assault on Precinct 13
- Intolerance(D.W. Griffith)
- Oliver Twist (1922)
- Zero Day
- The Hillz
- The Twilight Zone (Original series)
- The New Twilight Zone (1980's series)
- Combat!
- Father Murphy
- Hearts Afire
- I Spy
- John Ratzenberger's Made in America
- Naked City
- Pee-wee's Playhouse
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- The Immortal
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Laserdisc
Laserdisc (left) compared to a DVD (right).
Media type: Optical disc
Encoding: Various
Developed by: MCA
Usage: Video storage
Optical disc authoring
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Laserdisc (left) compared to a DVD (right).
Media type: Optical disc
Encoding: Various
Developed by: MCA
Usage: Video storage
Optical disc authoring
- Optical disc
- Optical disc image
- Recorder hardware
- Authoring software
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Subsidiary of News Corporation
Founded 1935, Fox Films founded in 1915
Headquarters Century City, California, USA
Industry Motion picture
Parent Fox Filmed Entertainment (News Corporation)
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Subsidiary of News Corporation
Founded 1935, Fox Films founded in 1915
Headquarters Century City, California, USA
Industry Motion picture
Parent Fox Filmed Entertainment (News Corporation)
Website foxmovies.
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Universal Studios
Subsidiary
Founded June 8, 1912
Headquarters Universal City, California, United States
Key people Carl Laemmle, Founder
Ron Meyer, President/COO
Industry Motion pictures
Parent NBC Universal
Owner General Electric
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Subsidiary
Founded June 8, 1912
Headquarters Universal City, California, United States
Key people Carl Laemmle, Founder
Ron Meyer, President/COO
Industry Motion pictures
Parent NBC Universal
Owner General Electric
Vivendi
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DVD
Media type: Optical disc
Capacity: 4.7 GB (single layer), 8.5 GB (dual layer)
Usage: Data storage, audio, video, games
Optical disc authoring
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Media type: Optical disc
Capacity: 4.7 GB (single layer), 8.5 GB (dual layer)
Usage: Data storage, audio, video, games
Optical disc authoring
- Optical disc
- Optical disc image
- Recorder hardware
- Authoring software
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CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (CBS)
Type Broadcast radio network and
television network
Country United States
Availability National; also available in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean
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Type Broadcast radio network and
television network
Country United States
Availability National; also available in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean
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The Twilight Zone is a television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains syndicated to this day.
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John Ritter
John Ritter at the 1988 Emmy Awards
Birth name Jonathan Southworth Ritter
Born September 17 1948
Burbank, California
Died September 11 2003 (aged 56)
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John Ritter at the 1988 Emmy Awards
Birth name Jonathan Southworth Ritter
Born September 17 1948
Burbank, California
Died September 11 2003 (aged 56)
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Markie Post
Markie Post at the 1988 Emmy Awards
Birth name Marjorie Armstrong Post
Born November 4 1950
Palo Alto, California
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Markie Post at the 1988 Emmy Awards
Birth name Marjorie Armstrong Post
Born November 4 1950
Palo Alto, California
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Hearts Afire is a sitcom that aired from September 14, 1992 to February 1, 1995 on CBS. It starred John Ritter and Markie Post as husband and wife with Ritter playing a senator's aide.
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A Farewell to Arms
First edition cover
Author Ernest Hemingway
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) War
Semi-autobiographical novel
Publisher Scribner's Magazine
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First edition cover
Author Ernest Hemingway
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) War
Semi-autobiographical novel
Publisher Scribner's Magazine
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IMDb profile
A Star Is Born is a 1937 film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell.
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IMDb profile
A Star Is Born is a 1937 film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell.
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O Entertainment is an entertainment company, originally founded in 1990 by Steve Oedekerk. Its productions include and other films and television series, using computer-animated techniques.
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Thumbs! is a collective term for the O Entertainment short films created with Thumbation technology, a process which combines live-action thumbs and CGI faces. The first short, Thumb Wars, was created as a television special and spawned the rest of the series:
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Starz Home Entertainment (formerly Anchor Bay Entertainment and Video Treasures) is a home video/television distribution company that was formed in 1989. It has released films by Sam Raimi, Werner Herzog, George Romero, Monte Hellman, Dario Argento, John Landis,
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Public domain comprises the body of knowledge and innovation (especially creative works such as writing, art, music, and inventions) in relation to which no person or other legal entity can establish or maintain proprietary interests within a particular legal jurisdiction.
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Purgatory House is a critically acclaimed, award-winning movie released in 2004. Written by Celeste Davis at the age of 14, it deals with the topics of teen suicide and drug addiction entirely from a teen's perspective.
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Purgatory House is a critically acclaimed, award-winning movie released in 2004. Written by Celeste Davis at the age of 14, it deals with the topics of teen suicide and drug addiction entirely from a teen's perspective.
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There have been two movies titled Assault on Precinct 13:
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- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 film)
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Discrimination
Major forms
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism
Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
Hate speech · Hate crime
Genocide · Ethnocide · Holocaust
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Major forms
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism
Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
Hate speech · Hate crime
Genocide · Ethnocide · Holocaust
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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress
Oliver is wounded in a burglary, an original engraving by George Cruikshank.
Author Charles Dickens
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
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Oliver is wounded in a burglary, an original engraving by George Cruikshank.
Author Charles Dickens
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
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The Hillz is a 2004 film written and directed by Saran Barnun and starring Rene Heger, Jesse Woodrow, and Paris Hilton. It centers around four kids from Beverly Hills who form a ruthless gang.
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The Hillz is a 2004 film written and directed by Saran Barnun and starring Rene Heger, Jesse Woodrow, and Paris Hilton. It centers around four kids from Beverly Hills who form a ruthless gang.
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The Twilight Zone is a television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains syndicated to this day.
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The New Twilight Zone is the popular nickname for the 1985 revival of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone; it was officially titled the same as the original.
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Combat! was an American television program that aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The exclamation point in "Combat!" was a stylized bayonet.
Created by , the show covered the lives of a squad of American soldiers in France[1]
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Created by , the show covered the lives of a squad of American soldiers in France[1]
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Father Murphy is an American television drama series that aired on the NBC network from November 3, 1981 to September 18, 1983. Michael Landon created the series, was the executive producer, and also directed the show in partnership with William F.
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Hearts Afire is a sitcom that aired from September 14, 1992 to February 1, 1995 on CBS. It starred John Ritter and Markie Post as husband and wife with Ritter playing a senator's aide.
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I spy is a guessing game usually played in families with young children, partly to assist in both observation and in alphabet familiarity. I spy is often played as a car game.
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John Ratzenberger's Made in America is a thirty minute American television series hosted by John Ratzenberger which currently airs on The Travel Channel. Ratzenberger visits various American manufacturers, taking the show's viewers along on the tours and showing how
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Naked City may refer to:
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- The Naked City, a 1948 film noir directed and inspired by the 1945 book of the same name.
- Naked City (album), a 1989 album featuring the band of the same name.
- Naked City (band), a band fronted by John Zorn.
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Pee-wee's Playhouse was a children's television program starring Pee-wee Herman. The playhouse is styled as a wacky, off-beat interior, wherein many objects are anthropomorphic.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Premiered in the fall of 1999, it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled in 2002 after funding for a fourth
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