PorchLight Entertainment

Name	PorchLight Entertainment, Inc.
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Industry	Film production Animation Television production Live-action
Fate	Acquired by Trilogy Animation Group
Founders	Bruce D. Johnson William T. Baumann
Successor	Foxfield Entertainment
Num Employees	10
Parent	PorchLight Worldwide, Inc.
Location	578 Washington Blvd. Suite 214, Marina del Rey, Ca. 90292
Area Served	Worldwide
Divisions	PorchLight Pictures PorchLight Home Entertainment

PorchLight Entertainment, Inc. was an American animation and live-action production company founded in 1995 by Bruce D. Johnson and William T. Baumann. It focused on the development & production of television series in both live action and animation formats, as well as content for film and home video.

History

PorchLight Entertainment began operations on February 20, 1995. The company was founded by Bruce D. Johnson, a former employee of Hanna-Barbera, and former Taft Broadcasting employee William T. Baumann. One of its major projects was acquiring the rights to adapt Adventures from the Book of Virtues for television. The project was later picked up by PBS, which ordered it to series.

In 1997, while on the virtue of its own successful programming, it would spend $10 million on expanding its own programming activity and planning on to do made-for-TV movies. In 1998, it launched a motion picture division, PorchLight Pictures, which specialized on having motion picture distribution.

In 2000, it bought the international film, TV and distribution rights to the motion picture, Heartwood. In 2001, it signed a deal with Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment to distribute titles based on Jay Jay the Jet Plane. In 2004, it was acquired by their senior management and Beringea through Global Rights II, through its parent company, PorchLight Worldwide, Inc.

In 2011, Bruce D. Johnson, one of PorchLight's co-founders, started Foxfield Entertainment.

In 2018, PorchLight Entertainment was acquired by Trilogy Animation Group.

Filmography

Animation: 64 Zoo Lane; A Martian Christmas; Adventures from the Book of Virtues; Animalia; Cedric; The Eggs; Four Eyes!; Gofrette; Jay Jay the Jet Plane (CGI); JetCat; Kid Paddle; LeapFrog; Mr. Frog & Mrs. Frog's Big Day Out; The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow; The Night Before Christmas: A Mouse Tale; The Secret Saturdays; Tutenstein

Live-action: Night of the Twisters; Born Champion; Pope Dreams; I Downloaded a Ghost; Rain

Porchlight Home Entertainment

Name	PorchLight Home Entertainment
Type	Division
Fate	Dormancy
Successor	E1 Entertainment
Area Served	Worldwide
Products	Home video
Parent	PorchLight Entertainment
Divisions	PorchLight INSPIRE Ocean Park Home Entertainment

PorchLight Home Entertainment was a home video distributor and subsidiary of PorchLight Entertainment which released content on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States.

History

PorchLight Entertainment announced the formation of PorchLight Home entertainment on June 26, 2007, announcing that their first two planned releases would be A Tad of Christmas Cheer and A Christmas Carol for Annie.

On April 24, 2008, PorchLight launched a Christian content sub-label called PorchLight INSPIRE. On May 5, the company announced to enter the Blu-ray market. The company launched another label later on in the year – Ocean Park Home Entertainment – for independent film acquisitions.

In August 2009, PorchLight appointed Canada-based E1 Entertainment as the distributor for their products. Following this deal, PorchLight Home Entertainment went dormant, with their last planned release, Broken Hill, planned originally for a Summer 2010 release, instead being released by Entertainment One in 2011.