Company directory

Studios, home video labels, bootleggers, big names in publishing, distributors, major production houses. Here is an alphabetical list of names.

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• 88 Films

A

• Artus
• Arrow Video (Home Video Label)
• Alberto Grimaldi
• Afilm
• Anchor Bay (Home Video Label)
• Argent Films (Home Video Label)
• Alberto Grimaldi, Italian producer and movie mogul
• Astro Distribution GmbH: former home video label (Germany); related: Laserparadise; DigiDreams; Marketing Film; Starlight Film; United Video)
• Anolis, German home video label

B

• Blue Underground (Home Video Label)
• Bridge Pictures
• Best Entertainment. Former German home video label (rumored gray market); related: Carol Media
• Buoi Omega: German film club that sometimes produces limited edition home video releases, too, e.g. with Anolis
• Black Hill Pictures. German home video label; see also CinePlus; MC One
• Bertucci Film Entertainment. German home video company, see also: X-Rated

C

• CG Entertainment / CG Home Video, distribution arm of Cecchi Gori
• Cecchi Gori, name of famed Italian film production dynasty (e.g. Vittorio Cecchi Gori)
• CMV, German niche home video label
• Capelight, German home video label
• Constantin Film, German movie studio and distributor
• Centauro Films. Madrid, Spain based production company
• CCC (Central Cinema Company) is a production company founded by Artur Brauner in 1946
• Corona Films (Munich), production company (for example Grande Duello, Il)
• Carol Media. German home video label; formerly Best Entertainment
• CinePlus / VCL. Former German home video production company
• Cineworld DVD Entertainment: see also X-Rated

D

• Digidreams, home video label by Oliver Krekel (former: Astro, Marketing Film)
• Dolphin Medien (company started by former KSM owner)
• Dorado Films (US-based label)
• Divisa, home video label (Spain)
• Dutch Film Works (Home Video Label)
• Discobolo Films, Italian (Rome) production company, e.g. The Ugly Ones

E

• Evidis, French home video label
• El Dorado Productions (Mike Siegel's company)
• Explosive Media, Germany/Switzerland/Austria label founded by Ulrich Bruckner, see Explosive Media catalog
• e-m-s. Former German home video label. E-M-S DVD Katalog. Now: 3L.
• Epoca, home video label (Argentina)
• Embassy Pictures (e.g. The Hellbenders)
• Eureka Entertainment, UK home video company, see Eureka Entertainment catalog
• edel Distribution GmbH. German home video label, see also: Black Hill Pictures.
• EuroVideo, German home video brand owned by Tonpool GmbH, which is owned by Westbrook Inc. (USA)

F

• FAB Press Publishing
• Fox / 20th Century Fox
• "Franco Cleef", is the nickname of a gray market distributor and creator of fan cuts/dubs
• Filmjuwelen / Fernsehjuwelen, German home video label mostly publishing films and tv shows from TV licensing package deals
• Filmexport Group. Italian company founded in 1974, is the rights holder to several spaghetti westerns, including Bianco Apache and Companeros

G

• Gaumont
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H

• Hollywood Classics International is a UK based sales agency for home video rights of major studies and independend catalogs of film titles.
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I

• Indicator (Home Video Label)
• IB Taurus Publishing
• Inked Pictures, German home video brand used, related to, e.g. Mediacs
• International Germania Film, 1960-1968, e.g. Clint el solitario

J

• Jack Vaughan Productions, producction company (1968-1992), who released Django in the USA in 1972 for the first time
• Jolly Film (production company, e.g. A Fistful of Dollars)

K

• Kamera Books
• Koch Films (formerly Koch Media Films), now Plaion Pictures
• Kino Lorber Studio Classics (classics label by Kino Lorber, once known as Fox Lorber, and also formerly Koch Lorber)
• KSM, later newKSM (bought by Koch Films), its former founder owns Dolphin Medien
• Kinowelt (now: Leonine)

L

• Laservision
• Laser Paradise: former German home video label by Oliver Buresch
• Leonine, is a new corporation which has evolved into a major European distributor

M

• "Mike Hunter" brand of a German VHS distributor, video store owner, famous for bringing many niche and international movies to the German home video market in the 80s.
• Mike Siegel, German documentarian and film historian, Peckinpah expert
• Marketing Film, former German home video label, see also Laser Paradise / Astro / Starlight
• Malhombra Films, new UK based boutique label
• McFarland & Co Publishing
• Mill Creek (Home Video Label)
• Millennium Storm, label (Italy, no longer in operation)
• Minerva, Italian company and rights holder
• Movietime, Italian company and rights holder
• Mediacs, German home video brand/label
• Mount Street Films (Rome), production company (for example Grande Duello, Il)
• MAWA: Former German home video label.
• MGM: Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Former major studio, now trade mark. Owns, e.g. United Artists, another former studio.

N

• NSM
• New Entertainment World (NEW). New Entertainment World DVD Katalog, former German home video label

O

• Ocean Pictures
• Odeon Entertainment (Home Video Label)

P

• Pidax, German label specializing mostly in TV catalog licenses
• Paramount Pictures, major Hollywood studio and distributor (examples: Ace High; Once Upon a Time in the West)
• PEA (Produzioni Europee Associati) Films. Rome, Italy based production company
• Plaion Pictures (formerly Koch Films)
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R

• Regalfilm, production company (e.g. Uccidi o muori)
• Ripleys Home Video (Home Video Label)

S

• Sidonis Calysta, France
• Splendid
• StudioCanal
• Suevia, label (Spain)
• Silwa Filmvertrieb (connections: Sedna Medien; X-Rated; VZ Handelsgesellschaft)
• Sedna Medien (connections: X-Rated; VZ Handelsgesellschaft; Silwa Filmvertrieb)
• Societé Nouvelle de Cinematographie (Paris), production company (for example Grande Duello, Il)
• Soul Media (SMD Entertainment A/S) is a Danish home video company
• Spirit Media. German home video label, see also Black Hill Pictures.
• Starlight Film (starlightfilm.de), former Astro/Marketing. Coop with United Video.
• Sunfilm. Used to be a distributor for Savoy
• Savoy Film. German home video label

T

• TLE Films: company specializing in digital restorations and mastering
• Tulio Demicheli P.C., this was Tulio Demicheli's production company
• Tecisa, Spanish (Madrid) production company, e.g. The Ugly Ones
• Technicolor
• Techniscope
• Terra Films (Berlin), production company (for example Grande Duello, Il)
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U

• Ulrich P. Bruckner, owner of: Explosive Media
• United Artists, movie studio eventually bought by MGM
• Unexpected. Media company, used to do for example menu design for Koch Media

V

• VCI International
• VZ Handelsgesellschaft (Connections: X-Rated; Sedna Medien; Silwa Filmvertrieb)
• VPS Film Entertainment. Former German home video label.
• VCL. Then CinePlus. Former German home video label.

W

• WVG
• Wild East Productions (out of business)
• Warner Home Video / Warner Brothers, etc., American major label

X

• X-Rated, German home video label operated by filmmaker Andreas Bethmann (formerly also under GABU GmbH; other connections/distributors: VZ Handelsgesellschaft; Sedna Medien; Silwa Filmvertrieb). Related keywords: Neues Kontrastprogramm, CCI, Simpel Movie.

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