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Entertainment One
Trade name
Entertainment One
Formerly
Records On Wheels Limited (1970–1980)
ROW Entertainment (1980–2005)
Entertainment One Income Fund (2005–2009)
E1 Entertainment (2009–2010)
Company type
Subsidiary
Traded as
LSE: ETO
Industry
Entertainment
Predecessors
Koch Entertainment
Contender Entertainment Group
Medusa Communications & Marketing
Alliance Films
Phase 4 Films
Founded
1970; 54 years ago (1970)
Founder
Vito Ierullo
Don Ierullo
Darren Throop
Fate
Reorganized,[1] acquired by Lionsgate, then split into eOne Canada, eOne Films and Lionsgate Alternative Television
Successors
eOne Canada (films and television series within Canada) eOne Films (films) Lionsgate Alternative Television (television series)
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
,
Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Darren Throop (CEO)
Products
Film
Television
Virtual reality
Live entertainment
Revenue
£941.2 million (2019)[2]
Parent
Hasbro (2019–2023)
Lionsgate (2023–present)
Subsidiaries
Amblin Partners (minority stake)
Makeready (co-backing with Universal Pictures)[3]
Sierra/Affinity
Website
www.entertainmentone.com
Entertainment One (commonly abbreviated as eOne) is a Canadian multinational entertainment company. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the company is primarily involved in the acquisition and production of films and television series.
The company originated as the Canadian music distributor Records on Wheels Limited; after it was acquired by music retailer CD Plus, the company became ROW Entertainment, with its vice president of operations Darren Throop becoming president and CEO. It later acquired U.S. music and home entertainment distributor Koch Entertainment.
By 2007, the company—now known as Entertainment One—had begun to acquire other production companies and film distributors, including Canadian distributors Les Films Séville and Alliance Films. By 2015, eOne had begun to expand its U.S. operations, including investing in Amblin Partners, and acquiring a stake in The Mark Gordon Company. In 2019, eOne announced its sale to U.S. toy and entertainment company Hasbro for US$4 billion.
The company began to face cutbacks under Hasbro, which sold eOne's original music distribution business (now MNRK Music Group) to Blackstone in 2021, and closed its theatrical distribution operations in Australia, Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom in 2022 and 2023, ahead of a planned sale of entertainment assets not strongly tied to eOne's children's entertainment brands (such as Peppa Pig, which would be folded into Hasbro's intellectual property and merchandising business following the acquisition). In August 2023, Hasbro announced that it would sell the assets to Lionsgate for $500 million. The deal closed on December 27, 2023, with eOne being split into three companies, eOne Canada for producing films and television series within Canada, Lionsgate Alternative Television for shows outside Canada, and eOne Films for films outside Canada.[4]
^Goldbart, Max (August 3, 2023). "Hasbro Confirms Sale Of eOne To Lionsgate For $500M". Deadline Hollywood.
^"Annual Report 2019". Entertainment One. Retrieved September 17, 2019.[permanent dead link]
^Cite error: The named reference makereadydeal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Spangler, Todd (December 22, 2023). "Lionsgate Studios Deal to Spin Off From Starz Values Business at $4.6 Billion". Variety. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
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