DEJ Productions

History

In early 1998, video rental chain Blockbuster launched its home video feature film subsidiary, Third Row Center Films and a label Two Left Shoes Films, dedicated to releasing original television movies on videocassette exclusively at Blockbuster rental stores, mostly from Showtime, which at that time, a sister of Blockbuster, owned by Viacom.

In mid 1998, Third Row Center was regrouped as DEJ Productions (which is short for the three executives of Blockbuster, Dean Wilson, Ed Stead and John Antioco) and Third Row Center became a label, and also, a new label, Square Dog Pictures was added. This was followed by a year later by the launch of new labels Story Garden Productions and Walking Man Films. The company made some massive successes with The Runner, and The Boondock Saints, all of them were profitable on Blockbuster rentals.

In 2000, the company launched new labels Ambrosia Productions and CityHeat Productions. The company soon entered DVD production. In 2002, all the labels were dropped and all releases used the DEJ Productions name. The company soon licensed its titles to a variety of distributors for retail release, most notably Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment and First Look Home Entertainment.

In 2005, DEJ was sold to First Look Studios, and a year later, it was folded into First Look Home Entertainment.

Releases

1998

Catalog number	Title	Country of origin	Original year	Length	Version	MPAA rating	Film format	Tape count	Tape break placement (if applicable)	Color	Released	Format	Note(s)
N/A	Still Breathing	USA	1997	110 min	TBD	NR	TBD	1	N/A	Color	1998	VHS
N/A	Color of Justice	USA	1997	91 min	TBD	NR	TBD	1	N/A	Color	1998	VHS
N/A	Human Cargo	USA	1997	108 min	TBD	NR	TBD	1	N/A	Color	1998	VHS
N/A	Lolita	USA	1997	137 min	TBD	NR	TBD	1	N/A	Color	1998	VHS
N/A	Girls Night	USA	1997	120 min	TBD	NR	TBD	1	N/A	Color	1998	VHS
N/A	Doom Runners	USA	1998	87 min	TBD	NR	TBD	1	N/A	Color	1998	VHS

Duplicators

• The company was known to duplicate their tapes at quite a few companies. Here are some of the companies that served DEJ Productions (a few have yet to be identified):

• Central Video (1999)
• Network Duplication Services (2000) (some copies of Frankie and Hazel)
• TBD (1998-1999)
• TBD (2000)
• TBD (2005-2006) (tapes released by First Look Home Entertainment after their acquisition of DEJ)
• Technicolor Video Services (1999-2004)
• Vision Wise (2002) (some copies of Lush)