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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

January 08, 2024

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (abbreviated as SPHE) is the home entertainment distribution division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc.
Formerly
  • Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment (1978–1982)
  • RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video (1981–1991)
  • RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1982–1991)
  • Columbia TriStar Home Video (1991–2001)
  • Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2001–2004)
TypeDivision
IndustryHome entertainment
FoundedJune 1978; 45 years ago (1978-06) in Burbank, California, United States
Headquarters10202 West Washington Boulevard,
Culver City, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Keith LeGoy (President)
ProductsDVD, Blu-ray, EST, VOD
ServicesPhysical and digital distribution
OwnerSony
ParentSony Pictures Entertainment
SubsidiariesSony Pictures Kids Zone
Kartoon Studios (equity stake)
Big Picture Productions (Iberia)
WebsiteSPHE website

Background

SPHE is responsible for the distribution of the Sony Pictures library for home entertainment, mainly releases from the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group (Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, and Screen Gems) as well as releases from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Triumph Films, Destination Films, Stage 6 Films and Affirm Films). SPHE also releases and distributes products from Revolution Studios and The Criterion Collection. Since June 20, 2007, SPHE has handled distribution of children's content formerly handled by Sony BMG's Sony Wonder label.[1]

SPHE is also responsible for distribution of television shows from the Sony Pictures Television library, including those produced by Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures Television, TriStar Television, Tandem Productions, TOY Productions, ELP Communications (shows include from T.A.T. Communications to ELP Communications), Four D Productions, Columbia TriStar Television and Sony Pictures Television. On some occasions, the company has distributed television titles not owned by Sony, such as Scholastic Productions' Animorphs, Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds Toons, Angry Birds Stella and Piggy Tales, and The Jim Henson Company's Fraggle Rock and Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.

SPHE now distributes anime films or television shows or live-action Japanese/Asian films licensed by Funimation (now known as Crunchyroll, LLC) after their multi-year home video distribution service deal with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (which was formed two years prior[2]) expired.[3]

In Canada, Columbia TriStar Home Video helped distribute tapes from Astral Video in the 1990s. It also has an Australian deal with Hoyts.

History

Early history

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment was established in June 1978 as Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, and released 20 titles in November 1979.[4] Its first 20 titles were licensed and distributed by Time-Life Video, a unit of Time-Life Films, but the relationship didn't last long, and Columbia formed its own distribution arm.[5]

In March 1981, Columbia Pictures established a joint venture with RCA, RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video, to distribute tapes in overseas markets. The partnership expanded to North America as RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video the following year; this was in part to give RCA's CED videodisc format a steady stream of titles.[6][7][8] The venture distributed NBC titles, as it was a subsidiary of RCA at the time. When Tri-Star Pictures was formed in 1984, R/CPHV became one of the three primary distributors of Tri-Star product for home video (the other two being CBS/Fox Video and Thorn-EMI/HBO Video {later renamed to HBO/Cannon Video and then simply HBO Video}, as CBS and HBO originally held stakes in Tri-Star), and fully assumed distribution of TriStar titles in the early 1990s. In Australia, they signed a deal to distribute releases from Hoyts Distribution and formed a longstanding relationship in August 1983.[9]

They also distributed titles from various other film companies unrelated to Columbia, including most of New Line Cinema's theatrical releases (though not all, as Media Home Entertainment and Family Home Entertainment distributed several New Line films during the Columbia deal). New Line formed their own video label in 1990 (the result of acquiring Nelson Entertainment, which had previously been Embassy Home Entertainment, itself a former Columbia subsidiary), but continued to go through RCA/Columbia Pictures (as well as SVS-Triumph and then Columbia TriStar Home Video) for distribution until 1994, when Turner Broadcasting acquired New Line and Turner Home Entertainment assumed distribution functions. Other companies distributed by RCA/Columbia included Weintraub Entertainment and 21st Century Distribution.

In 1987, once pre-existing distribution deals had expired, Tri-Star Pictures announced that it would be launching a home video unit, Tri-Star Video, with Saul Melnick, a former MGM/UA Home Video employee, as its president.[10] In 1988, after Coke sold its entertainment business, Tri-Star Video was merged into RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video.[11] In late 1989, it was rumored that Trans World Entertainment would eventually sign a deal with RCA/Columbia to distribute its titles.[12][13] This rumor bore fruit by that December when a deal with TWE -- which had by this point become a part of Epic Productions, which struck a separate distribution deal with RCA/Columbia not long before -- was officially announced.[14]

In March 1990, NBC filed a lawsuit against Columbia and its then-new parent company Sony under the perception that the latter two parties were violating their joint pact. Columbia purchased the foreign video rights to Orion Pictures titles a month earlier. NBC alleged that they were unaware of this transaction and had become convinced that Columbia was forming their own video unit in strict defiance of the joint venture, which was set to expire in 1992. Sony/Columbia denied NBC's claims.[15] As the lawsuit continued into 1991, General Electric, the parent of NBC and RCA, announced that it was divesting its interest in RCA/Columbia.[16] In August 1991, General Electric sold its 50% share of the company to Sony Corporation, and the litigation officially ended with Sony renaming the company as Columbia TriStar Home Video.[17] In 1998, it inked a deal with The Jim Henson Company to launch its own video label, Jim Henson Home Entertainment, with CTHV distributing; at the time, Columbia and Henson were also allied theatrically for the Jim Henson Pictures venture.[18]

On February 28, 1999, CTHV and Universal Studios Home Video signed a multi-year deal to allow CTHV to distribute Universal's products on DVD outside North America.[19]

It was named Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment from April 2001 until a name change to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in November 2004.[20]

SPHE had a three-year deal with Starz's Anchor Bay Entertainment for worldwide DVD releases, with the exceptions of North America, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.[21]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

In 2005, when Sony and four partners acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) from Kirk Kerkorian, SPHE held the domestic home entertainment rights to MGM's 4,000 film and 10,400 television episode library, though the releases used the MGM DVD label. On May 31, 2006, MGM ended its distribution deal with SPHE and transferred most of its output to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

In 2006, long time SPHE president Ben Feingold left the company and was replaced by MGM Home Entertainment executive Dave Bishop, who brought along numerous MGM employees to replace Sony staffers.[22]

In February 2011, Sony regained full distribution rights to MGM Home Entertainment library under a deal that pays SPHE 8% in distribution fees (industry norm is 10%).[23]

Recent history

On February 21, 2010, The Weinstein Company (TWC) made a home video distribution deal with SPHE through Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.[24] On August 31, 2010, SPHE 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.[25]

In September 2011, the Australian division of SPHE announced they would merge their video operations with the local operations of Universal Pictures International Entertainment to form a joint-venture called Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. [26]

On April 23, 2012, Mill Creek announced that they had signed a home video distribution deal with SPHE, acquiring the rights to distribute 250 films from the Sony Pictures catalog on DVD and Blu-ray.[27] On August 27, 2013, Mill Creek Entertainment signed a deal with SPHE to distribute 665 SPE films and 54 television series on DVD.[28]

Anime News Network reported in February 2013 that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's Australian joint venture with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment licensed anime television series from NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan for distribution in Australia, with its initial titles, A Certain Magical Index, Shakugan no Shana and Armitage III, scheduled for release on April 24, 2013.[29] From 2017 to 2018, Funimation began directly distributing a select number of its anime titles in Australia and New Zealand through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's Australian joint venture with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. In September 2018, Funimation transferred distribution to Madman Entertainment, with Madman handling distribution and classification within the region.[30][31]

On December 18, 2013, SPHE president David Bishop, who had served since 2006, announced he would leave when his contract expired in March 2014.[32] It was announced that Man Jit Singh would replace Bishop.[33]

On July 22, 2015, SPHE and Transmission Films reached a multi-year distribution pact to release Transmission's library in Australia (through Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Limited) and in New Zealand.[34] On November 20, 2015, SPHE announced that it would release Ultra HD Blu-ray releases.[35]

On March 15, 2016, SPHE partnered with eOne to distribute films by Momentum Pictures across the globe except for Canada on physical and digital home entertainment platforms.[36] In January 2017, SPHE expanded its distribution deal with Genius Brands to include all properties and acquired an equity stake in the company.[37]

On February 6, 2018, Man Jit Singh stepped down as president of SPHE and was replaced by Keith LeGoy.[38]

In February 2021, Sony announced it would distribute releases by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in North America beginning in July 2021, when Lionsgate's distribution deal with 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment expires.[39]

Sub-labels

During this time, the company also has and had some sub-labels, including:

  • Magic Window – Children's titles (including He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and The Real Ghostbusters,[40] as well as classic Columbia/UPA cartoons).
  • SVS-Triumph – Some low-profile Columbia, TriStar, New Line, CineTel Films and Epic Productions releases, and releases from Triumph Films (it was founded in 1979 as Sony Video Services, then Sony Video Software,[41] and renamed after the formation of Sony Pictures Entertainment, to be used briefly in-between the ending of the RCA joint venture and the formation of Columbia-TriStar[42]).
  • Musicvision – A short-lived music video division of RCA/Columbia Pictures HV in the mid-1980s, primarily releasing artists linked to RCA Records.[43]
  • Columbia Classics – A label releasing classic films on DVD by Columbia Pictures; it was previously used for VHS and LaserDisc releases as well.
  • Screen Classics by Request -- A service available on the web, where classic films are pressed and ordered directly from Sony, similar to Warner Bros.' "Warner Archive" brand. A similar service called "Choice Collection" also exists, but is pressed and ordered directly from Warner, via the systems used for the "Warner Archive" titles.[44]
  • Superbit

International sub-labels

  • RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video – Used for videos distributed outside the US and Canada. Orion Pictures films were distributed globally via this label.
  • 20/20 Vision – A British rental home video label that released films by TriStar Pictures, Goldcrest Films International, New Line Cinema, Triumph Films and Columbia Pictures.
  • Cinema Club - British joint-venture with Video Collection International for budget-priced movies mainly from CTHV's catalog that VCI would distribute.[45] The venture was later sold entirely to VCI, who used it as their low-price budget label for mainstream releases.
  • First Independent Films – a British film distributor and home video company formed by HTV after acquiring Vestron Video International's UK operations in May 1990. First Independent was sold to Sony in 1997 and was entirely folded into Columbia TriStar Home Video by 1999. However, Columbia TriStar continued to use the First Independent Films label for some years afterwards.
  • First Release Home Entertainment – A mixture of B-movies, Magic Window, music videos, TriStar, top TV shows, re-releases, Thames Video and some mainstream Hoyts/Columbia/Cannon/Triumph/other film releases in Australia and The Netherlands.
  • Gaumont-Columbia-RCA Video – A joint-venture with Gaumont that released Gaumont, Columbia, TriStar, and Triumph products on VHS. They were formed in 1982, renamed as Gaumont/RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video in 1986, and under its final name in 1992.
  • RCA/Columbia Pictures/Hoyts Video Pty. Ltd. – An Australian joint-venture with Hoyts Distribution that was formed in August 1983.[9] The company released products from Hoyts, Cannon Films, Columbia Pictures, TriStar and Triumph Films in the market.
  • Video Box Office – a mixture of B-movies, HBO and some mainstream releases in Australia.
  • VideoServis – A Russian home video label with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment that released films by Columbia Pictures, Monumental Pictures, TriStar and Screen Gems, created in 1994.[46]

During the time that Consolidated Press Holdings, and later Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and West Australian Newspapers owned Hoyts, they re-established the Hoyts Distribution arm of the company. SPHE Australia releases Hoyts titles, including the recent box-office hit, Twilight. They also released the handful of films from the Nine Network's film arm, Nine Films and Television.

SPHE also handles the Australian DVD distribution of Lionsgate titles (via Hoyts), after that company was unsuccessful in purchasing Magna Pacific, and the subsequent collapse of the successful bidder, Destra Entertainment.

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External links

  • Official website

January 08, 2024
sony, pictures, home, entertainment, abbreviated, sphe, home, entertainment, distribution, division, sony, pictures, entertainment, subsidiary, sony, formerlycolumbia, pictures, home, entertainment, 1978, 1982, columbia, pictures, international, video, 1981, 1. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment abbreviated as SPHE is the home entertainment distribution division of Sony Pictures Entertainment a subsidiary of Sony Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc FormerlyColumbia Pictures Home Entertainment 1978 1982 RCA Columbia Pictures International Video 1981 1991 RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video 1982 1991 Columbia TriStar Home Video 1991 2001 Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001 2004 TypeDivisionIndustryHome entertainmentFoundedJune 1978 45 years ago 1978 06 in Burbank California United StatesHeadquarters10202 West Washington Boulevard Culver City California United StatesArea servedWorldwideKey peopleKeith LeGoy President ProductsDVD Blu ray EST VODServicesPhysical and digital distributionOwnerSonyParentSony Pictures EntertainmentSubsidiariesSony Pictures Kids ZoneKartoon Studios equity stake Big Picture Productions Iberia WebsiteSPHE website Contents 1 Background 2 History 2 1 Early history 2 2 Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2 3 Recent history 3 Sub labels 3 1 International sub labels 4 References 5 External linksBackgroundSPHE is responsible for the distribution of the Sony Pictures library for home entertainment mainly releases from the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Columbia Pictures TriStar Pictures Sony Pictures Classics and Screen Gems as well as releases from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Triumph Films Destination Films Stage 6 Films and Affirm Films SPHE also releases and distributes products from Revolution Studios and The Criterion Collection Since June 20 2007 SPHE has handled distribution of children s content formerly handled by Sony BMG s Sony Wonder label 1 SPHE is also responsible for distribution of television shows from the Sony Pictures Television library including those produced by Screen Gems Columbia Pictures Television TriStar Television Tandem Productions TOY Productions ELP Communications shows include from T A T Communications to ELP Communications Four D Productions Columbia TriStar Television and Sony Pictures Television On some occasions the company has distributed television titles not owned by Sony such as Scholastic Productions Animorphs Rovio Entertainment s Angry Birds Toons Angry Birds Stella and Piggy Tales and The Jim Henson Company s Fraggle Rock and Emmet Otter s Jug Band Christmas SPHE now distributes anime films or television shows or live action Japanese Asian films licensed by Funimation now known as Crunchyroll LLC after their multi year home video distribution service deal with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment which was formed two years prior 2 expired 3 In Canada Columbia TriStar Home Video helped distribute tapes from Astral Video in the 1990s It also has an Australian deal with Hoyts HistoryEarly history Sony Pictures Home Entertainment was established in June 1978 as Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment and released 20 titles in November 1979 4 Its first 20 titles were licensed and distributed by Time Life Video a unit of Time Life Films but the relationship didn t last long and Columbia formed its own distribution arm 5 In March 1981 Columbia Pictures established a joint venture with RCA RCA Columbia Pictures International Video to distribute tapes in overseas markets The partnership expanded to North America as RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video the following year this was in part to give RCA s CED videodisc format a steady stream of titles 6 7 8 The venture distributed NBC titles as it was a subsidiary of RCA at the time When Tri Star Pictures was formed in 1984 R CPHV became one of the three primary distributors of Tri Star product for home video the other two being CBS Fox Video and Thorn EMI HBO Video later renamed to HBO Cannon Video and then simply HBO Video as CBS and HBO originally held stakes in Tri Star and fully assumed distribution of TriStar titles in the early 1990s In Australia they signed a deal to distribute releases from Hoyts Distribution and formed a longstanding relationship in August 1983 9 They also distributed titles from various other film companies unrelated to Columbia including most of New Line Cinema s theatrical releases though not all as Media Home Entertainment and Family Home Entertainment distributed several New Line films during the Columbia deal New Line formed their own video label in 1990 the result of acquiring Nelson Entertainment which had previously been Embassy Home Entertainment itself a former Columbia subsidiary but continued to go through RCA Columbia Pictures as well as SVS Triumph and then Columbia TriStar Home Video for distribution until 1994 when Turner Broadcasting acquired New Line and Turner Home Entertainment assumed distribution functions Other companies distributed by RCA Columbia included Weintraub Entertainment and 21st Century Distribution In 1987 once pre existing distribution deals had expired Tri Star Pictures announced that it would be launching a home video unit Tri Star Video with Saul Melnick a former MGM UA Home Video employee as its president 10 In 1988 after Coke sold its entertainment business Tri Star Video was merged into RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video 11 In late 1989 it was rumored that Trans World Entertainment would eventually sign a deal with RCA Columbia to distribute its titles 12 13 This rumor bore fruit by that December when a deal with TWE which had by this point become a part of Epic Productions which struck a separate distribution deal with RCA Columbia not long before was officially announced 14 In March 1990 NBC filed a lawsuit against Columbia and its then new parent company Sony under the perception that the latter two parties were violating their joint pact Columbia purchased the foreign video rights to Orion Pictures titles a month earlier NBC alleged that they were unaware of this transaction and had become convinced that Columbia was forming their own video unit in strict defiance of the joint venture which was set to expire in 1992 Sony Columbia denied NBC s claims 15 As the lawsuit continued into 1991 General Electric the parent of NBC and RCA announced that it was divesting its interest in RCA Columbia 16 In August 1991 General Electric sold its 50 share of the company to Sony Corporation and the litigation officially ended with Sony renaming the company as Columbia TriStar Home Video 17 In 1998 it inked a deal with The Jim Henson Company to launch its own video label Jim Henson Home Entertainment with CTHV distributing at the time Columbia and Henson were also allied theatrically for the Jim Henson Pictures venture 18 On February 28 1999 CTHV and Universal Studios Home Video signed a multi year deal to allow CTHV to distribute Universal s products on DVD outside North America 19 It was named Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment from April 2001 until a name change to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in November 2004 20 SPHE had a three year deal with Starz s Anchor Bay Entertainment for worldwide DVD releases with the exceptions of North America Canada Australia and the United Kingdom 21 Metro Goldwyn Mayer In 2005 when Sony and four partners acquired Metro Goldwyn Mayer MGM from Kirk Kerkorian SPHE held the domestic home entertainment rights to MGM s 4 000 film and 10 400 television episode library though the releases used the MGM DVD label On May 31 2006 MGM ended its distribution deal with SPHE and transferred most of its output to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment In 2006 long time SPHE president Ben Feingold left the company and was replaced by MGM Home Entertainment executive Dave Bishop who brought along numerous MGM employees to replace Sony staffers 22 In February 2011 Sony regained full distribution rights to MGM Home Entertainment library under a deal that pays SPHE 8 in distribution fees industry norm is 10 23 Recent history On February 21 2010 The Weinstein Company TWC made a home video distribution deal with SPHE through Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions 24 On August 31 2010 SPHE 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 25 In September 2011 the Australian division of SPHE announced they would merge their video operations with the local operations of Universal Pictures International Entertainment to form a joint venture called Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 26 On April 23 2012 Mill Creek announced that they had signed a home video distribution deal with SPHE acquiring the rights to distribute 250 films from the Sony Pictures catalog on DVD and Blu ray 27 On August 27 2013 Mill Creek Entertainment signed a deal with SPHE to distribute 665 SPE films and 54 television series on DVD 28 Anime News Network reported in February 2013 that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment s Australian joint venture with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment licensed anime television series from NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan for distribution in Australia with its initial titles A Certain Magical Index Shakugan no Shana and Armitage III scheduled for release on April 24 2013 29 From 2017 to 2018 Funimation began directly distributing a select number of its anime titles in Australia and New Zealand through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment s Australian joint venture with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment In September 2018 Funimation transferred distribution to Madman Entertainment with Madman handling distribution and classification within the region 30 31 On December 18 2013 SPHE president David Bishop who had served since 2006 announced he would leave when his contract expired in March 2014 32 It was announced that Man Jit Singh would replace Bishop 33 On July 22 2015 SPHE and Transmission Films reached a multi year distribution pact to release Transmission s library in Australia through Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Limited and in New Zealand 34 On November 20 2015 SPHE announced that it would release Ultra HD Blu ray releases 35 On March 15 2016 SPHE partnered with eOne to distribute films by Momentum Pictures across the globe except for Canada on physical and digital home entertainment platforms 36 In January 2017 SPHE expanded its distribution deal with Genius Brands to include all properties and acquired an equity stake in the company 37 On February 6 2018 Man Jit Singh stepped down as president of SPHE and was replaced by Keith LeGoy 38 In February 2021 Sony announced it would distribute releases by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in North America beginning in July 2021 when Lionsgate s distribution deal with 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment expires 39 Sub labelsDuring this time the company also has and had some sub labels including Magic Window Children s titles including He Man and the Masters of the Universe and The Real Ghostbusters 40 as well as classic Columbia UPA cartoons SVS Triumph Some low profile Columbia TriStar New Line CineTel Films and Epic Productions releases and releases from Triumph Films it was founded in 1979 as Sony Video Services then Sony Video Software 41 and renamed after the formation of Sony Pictures Entertainment to be used briefly in between the ending of the RCA joint venture and the formation of Columbia TriStar 42 Musicvision A short lived music video division of RCA Columbia Pictures HV in the mid 1980s primarily releasing artists linked to RCA Records 43 Columbia Classics A label releasing classic films on DVD by Columbia Pictures it was previously used for VHS and LaserDisc releases as well Screen Classics by Request A service available on the web where classic films are pressed and ordered directly from Sony similar to Warner Bros Warner Archive brand A similar service called Choice Collection also exists but is pressed and ordered directly from Warner via the systems used for the Warner Archive titles 44 SuperbitInternational sub labels RCA Columbia Pictures International Video Used for videos distributed outside the US and Canada Orion Pictures films were distributed globally via this label 20 20 Vision A British rental home video label that released films by TriStar Pictures Goldcrest Films International New Line Cinema Triumph Films and Columbia Pictures Cinema Club British joint venture with Video Collection International for budget priced movies mainly from CTHV s catalog that VCI would distribute 45 The venture was later sold entirely to VCI who used it as their low price budget label for mainstream releases First Independent Films a British film distributor and home video company formed by HTV after acquiring Vestron Video International s UK operations in May 1990 First Independent was sold to Sony in 1997 and was entirely folded into Columbia TriStar Home Video by 1999 However Columbia TriStar continued to use the First Independent Films label for some years afterwards First Release Home Entertainment A mixture of B movies Magic Window music videos TriStar top TV shows re releases Thames Video and some mainstream Hoyts Columbia Cannon Triumph other film releases in Australia and The Netherlands Gaumont Columbia RCA Video A joint venture with Gaumont that released Gaumont Columbia TriStar and Triumph products on VHS They were formed in 1982 renamed as Gaumont RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video in 1986 and under its final name in 1992 RCA Columbia Pictures Hoyts Video Pty Ltd An Australian joint venture with Hoyts Distribution that was formed in August 1983 9 The company released products from Hoyts Cannon Films Columbia Pictures TriStar and Triumph Films in the market Video Box Office a mixture of B movies HBO and some mainstream releases in Australia VideoServis A Russian home video label with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment that released films by Columbia Pictures Monumental Pictures TriStar and Screen Gems created in 1994 46 During the time that Consolidated Press Holdings and later Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and West Australian Newspapers owned Hoyts they re established the Hoyts Distribution arm of the company SPHE Australia releases Hoyts titles including the recent box office hit Twilight They also released the handful of films from the Nine Network s film arm Nine Films and Television SPHE also handles the Australian DVD distribution of Lionsgate titles via Hoyts after that company was unsuccessful in purchasing Magna Pacific and the subsequent collapse of the successful bidder Destra Entertainment References DeMott Rick June 21 2007 Sony Home Ent Takes Over Sony Wonder Animation World Network Retrieved July 29 2015 Funimation and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Enter Into Multi Year Distribution Agreement Press release PR Newswire June 22 2015 Archived from the original on June 23 2015 Retrieved March 13 2019 Sony and Funimation What does that mean for you August 2017 1 Archived August 23 2010 at the Wayback Machine Brown Les June 13 1979 Videotapes for Homes The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved May 29 2021 McCullaugh Jim July 10 1982 See RCA Label Boost 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