Paramount Home Entertainment: Difference between revisions

Paramount first tried to enter the home video market through a distribution pact with S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp. in 1976, but their movies remain unavailable for three years. In the meantime, Paramount got a deal with MCA Distributing Corporation to bring their library to DiscoVision in 1978. Paramount then signed a deal with [[Fotomat Video]] in 1979 to release their movies on videocassette through rental.

Paramount would got their own home video distribution arm in late 1979 and its first titles appear on the Winter 1980 CES. Paramount would later sign deals with third-party distributors, most notably Atlantic Releasing Corporation and Skouras Pictures throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Paramount would later launch sublabels, such as '''Paramount Gateway Video''', formed in 1982 to release midprice titles, and '''Bel Canto/Paramount Home Video''', formed in 1985 to release music titles.

Throughout the early 1990s, it was the distributor for [[Full Moon Features|Full Moon Entertainment]], Miramax Home Video, and Skouras Home Video. In 1994, it picked up the home video distribution rights to Capital Cities/ABC Video Publishing's titles, until it was sold to Disney in 1996. In 1996, the company picked up the rights to Nickelodeon's titles, and five years later, in 2001, picked up the rights to MTV's titles. In 2004, the company picked up home video distribution rights to Hasbro's titles, until it would later leave for [[Shout! Factory]] by the end of the decade.