Image Entertainment

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Image Entertainment
Type Subsidiary
Industry Entertainment
Founded Chatsworth, California, US (1981)
Headquarters Chatsworth, California, US[1]
Key people Ted Green (Chairman and CEO)
John Hyde (Vice Chairman)
John Avagliano (COO and CFO)
Bill Bromiley (CAO)
Products DVD, Blu-ray, Digital Video, CD, Digital Audio, motion picture studio
Parent RLJ Entertainment
Website www.image-entertainment.com

Image Entertainment, Inc. is an American independent licensee, producer and distributor of entertainment programming and film and television productions in North America, with approximately 3,200 exclusive DVD titles and approximately 340 exclusive CD titles in domestic release, and approximately 450 programs internationally via sublicense agreements. For many of its titles, Image has exclusive audio and broadcast rights as well as digital download rights to approximately 2,100 video programs and over 400 audio programs containing more than 6,000 tracks. The company is headquartered in Chatsworth, California.

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History [edit]

Founded in 1981 as a public company, Image began as a distributor of Laserdiscs, whose sound and picture quality surpassed that of VHS and Beta, the dominant tape formats of the time. Image successfully secured exclusive output deals with major studios such as Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and The Walt Disney Company and grew to become the dominant distributor of the format.

As the 1990s came to a close and Laserdiscs gave way to DVD, Image re-focused on the fledgling format that quickly came to dominate the home video marketplace. While studios were busy managing the transition from VHS to DVD, Image began to acquire DVD rights to long-form music concert programs, television programming, foreign films and a broad array of special interest programming, all of which were being ignored by the major studios and music labels.

Image continued to work with its long term partner, The Criterion Collection, as well as hundreds of independent content producers and rights holders to bring products to the marketplace. By the 10th anniversary of the DVD, Image has once again established itself as a dominant distributor of independently produced programs. In 2008, Image began to expand its release schedule to include feature films..

On August 31, 2010, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment partnered with Image Entertainment in a multi-year agreement, marketing and distributing DVDs and Blu-rays by Image. Image retains its own sales and marketing.[2]

In May 2011, Image entered into in-house film and television production agreement.[clarification needed] Its latest theatrical film is 44 Inch Chest. Most recently,[when?] the company announced the pick-up of The Tall Man starring Jessica Biel.

On April 2, 2012, it was announced that RLJ Acquisition, Inc. had entered into an agreement to acquire Image Entertainment as well as Acorn Media and plan to merge the two companies together. The two companies will operate under the banner RLJ Entertainment.[3]

Selected releases [edit]

Feature films [edit]

Special interest [edit]

  • IMAX programming

The Criterion Collection

Television series [edit]

Stand-up comedy [edit]

Music programs [edit]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.image-entertainment.com/about_us/investors/index.cfm
  2. ^ "BusinessWire" Image Entertainment Partners with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment businesswire.com, Retrieved on January 9, 2013
  3. ^ "Site News - Press Release: RLJ Acquisition Buys Image Ent. and Acorn Media; Merge Both Into 'RLJ Entertainment'". Retrieved April 2, 2012. 
  4. ^ DiVincenzo, Alex (May 30, 2011). "First image from Adam Green's Chillerama segment The Diary of Anne Frankenstein". JoBlo.com. Retrieved June 5, 2011. 
  5. ^ http://www.watchimage.com/product/home-sweet-home/365c37e6-ae44-e211-b3d7-020045490004
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