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Image:AnchorBayEntLogo.jpg Anchor Bay Entertainment is a home video/television distribution company which has released films by Sam Raimi, Werner Herzog, George Romero, Monte Hellman, Dario Argento, John Landis, Peter Jackson, Kathryn Bigelow, Alfred Hitchcock and Wim Wenders formed in 1989. The company's UK division was launched in 2001.

Contents 1 Home Video 2 Children's Home Video 3 Television 4 Evil Dead Films 5 Miscellany 6 External links

[edit] Home Video

Anchor Bay Entertainment currently holds the home video rights to the Three's Company and Xena: Warrior Princess television series, as well as most of the libraries of Embassy Pictures, Rankin-Bass, EMI Films, HBO Films, and Alexander Salkind (via StudioCanal); Moustapha Akkad's Trancas International Pictures (production company behind the Halloween movie series); George Harrison's Handmade Films (Time Bandits, Mona Lisa, etc.); New World Pictures (Children of the Corn, Sledge Hammer, etc.); Stephen J. Cannell Productions (The Greatest American Hero, Hunter, 21 Jump Street, etc.); Carsey-Werner Productions (Roseanne, 3rd Rock from the Sun, etc.); the Davis-Panzer Production Company (which includes the feature film The Osterman Weekend and the Highlander television series) and some of the Twentieth Century Fox library.

In February 2007, Anchor Bay Entertainment will be releasing Hellboy - Sword of Storms, the first installment of Hellboy (animated series), as well as Eddie Murphy Delirious for the first time ever on DVD.

[edit] Children's Home Video

In addition to feature films, Anchor Bay Entertainment distributes popular children's video series, including Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and Bobby's World. Thomas has reached platinum-selling status and in 2004 ranks consistently on the VideoScan ranking top 50 chart of children's weekly video sales. The company also has a top market share for fitness videos such as the "Crunch" and "For Dummies" series.

[edit] Television

As a television distribution company, they hold the TV rights to the fourth and fifth films in the aforementioned Halloween movie series.

[edit] Evil Dead Films

Anchor Bay is also noted for the release of the Evil Dead film trilogy on DVD, in numerous editions. Army of Darkness for example, had been released in both a regular and limited edition set that featured the director's cut of the film. Since then, the director's cut has been re-released on two separate occasions in addition to a two-disc "Boomstick Edition" of the film as well.

[edit] Miscellany

The company was awarded the Special Achievement Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in June 2002.

Anchor Bay Entertainment sells to major retail outlets nationwide. The company is located in Troy, Michigan and is an operating unit of Starz Media, a subsidiary of Liberty Media.

[edit] External links

• Official U.S. site
• Official U.K. site