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New Line wanted a bigger toehold in the fast-growing television movie market, and was also looking to syndicate shows in Europe. Also in 1991, New Line acquired a company called Nelson Entertainment Group. The deal gave New Line home video and foreign rights to a substantial collection of films, some 600 in all.
In 1991, Nelson made a distribution deal with New Line Cinema and their films, as well as those by Embassy Films Associates and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, were released by New Line Home Video (whose releases were distributed by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video at the time). On December 9, New Line acquired Nelson (which by then was renamed "Sultan Entertainment") and Nelson was later ...
Nelson Entertainment (also known as Nelson Entertainment Group) was a Los Angeles-based film production and home video distribution company, a subsidiary of Nelson Holdings International Ltd., a Vancouver, Canada, holding company formed in 1985 by British film producer Barry Spikings and Richard Northcott, a British financier who amassed his fortune from a chain of hardware and furniture stores.
Release DateTitleCo-producerOctober 16, 1987November 13, 1987April 15, 1988April 22, 1988New Line Cinema was established in 1967 by the then 27-year-old Robert Shaye as a film distribution company, supplying foreign and art films for college campuses in the United States. Shaye operated New Line Cinema's offices out of his apartment at 14th Street and Second Avenue in New York City. One of the company's early successes was its ...
May 8, 1991 · New Line Distribution Agreement: New Line Cinema Corp. has signed an agreement to distribute existing and future film properties from Nelson Entertainment Holdings Inc.
In 1991, Nelson made a distribution deal with New Line Cinema and their films, as well as those by Embassy Films Associates and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, were released by New Line Home Video (whose releases were distributed by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video at the time), and released their catalog and some others (as well as a few Warner Bros. films) on S-VHS, becoming one of the ...
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Dec 25, 1990 · In addition, Nelson Holdings receives a five-year warrant to buy 5% of the stock in the new company that SCS will create to acquire NEG. SCS, similarly, gets a five-year warrant to buy 5% of ...
