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Shout! Factory
Company typePrivate
IndustryEntertainment
Founded2003
HeadquartersLos Angeles, CA
Key people
Garson Foos
(President & Co-founder)
Richard Foos (Co-founder)
Bob Emmer
ProductsDVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital Video, CD, Digital Audio
SubsidiariesTimeless Media Group
Websitewww.shoutfactory.com

Shout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2003 that was started by Richard Foos (co-founder of Rhino Records), Bob Emmer (former Warner Music Group and Rhino executive) and Garson Foos (former Rhino executive) initially as a specialty music label. It focuses on enriched music catalog reissues, home video/DVD projects, and television properties.

History

Conceived as a retro pop culture label, Shout! Factory DVD projects include live music shows (by acts such as X, The Blasters, Heart, and Barenaked Ladies), music documentaries (The Fearless Freaks, about The Flaming Lips, and The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, about The Sex Pistols), animation (including multiple Home Movies seasons, Pucca, and Code Monkeys), live-action television (Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life, Inside the Actors Studio, California Dreams), as well as productions by DIC (including the Mario television shows, The Legend of Zelda, and the Sonic the Hedgehog television shows) and sports (including Major League Baseball and Warren Miller ski titles). [citation needed]

Shout! Factory CD and music DVD products are distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. As of June 2007, their non-music DVD titles are distributed by Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment.

Licensing Deals

Shout! Factory teamed up with Marvel Comics to release The Superhero Squad Show and several Marvel Knights motion comics, including Astonishing X-Men and Iron Man: Extremis, on DVD.[1]

The company also inked a deal with Hasbro for exclusive DVD rights to many of the toy maker's popular shows including My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, Transformers Prime and Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters.[2]

In May 2011, Shout! Factory signed a deal with Nickelodeon and Paramount Home Entertainment to release Nickelodeon's older catalog (The Wild Thornberrys, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Dude etc.) on DVD under license from the latter two companies.

Around that time, Shout! Factory also announced a horror sub-label called Scream Factory specializing in classic and cult horror films such as Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Terror Train, The Funhouse, and others being released to DVD and Blu-ray.[3]

In March 2012, Shout! Factory signed a distribution deal with Saban to release their live-action TV series on DVD including Power Rangers, VR Troopers and others.[4]

Shout! Factory once had a long term distribution deal with DIC Entertainment (now Cookie Jar Entertainment) for most of the latter company's catalog,[5] which ended in May 2012.

In 2012, Shout! Factory acquired Oregon-based home entertainment company Timeless Media Group, adding programs like the following to its ever-expanding catalog: Red Skelton, Peter Gunn, The Gene Autry Show, The Virginian, Wagon Train, Laramie and the Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys Western Movies Collection, among others.

Shout! Factory also bought the HighTone Blues/Roots label and continues to oversee its back catalog.

Artists released

Television shows

Film releases

Soundtracks and compilations

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2010/05/26/shout-factory-to-release-more-marvel-animated-titles
  2. ^ http://kidscreen.com/2012/07/12/shout-factory-and-hasbro-ink-distribution-deal/
  3. ^ http://www.shoutfactory.com/browse/470/scream_factory.aspx#axzz1wfCLxVlH
  4. ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shout-factory-saban-home-entertainment-deal-power-rangers-298562
  5. ^ Shout! Factory Drops Some Vintage Corman on Us
  6. ^ {https://www.animationmagazine.net/features/shout-nabs-u-s-rights-for-montser-in-paris/ Shout! Nabs U.S. Rights for 'Monster in Paris'] in [[Animation (magazine)|]]
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