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.
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.[1] The project was later picked up by PBS, which ordered it to series.[2]
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.[3] In 1998, it launched a motion picture division, PorchLight Pictures, which specialized on having motion picture distribution.[4]
In 2000, it bought the international film, TV and distribution rights to the motion picture, Heartwood.[5] In 2001, it signed a deal with Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment to distribute titles based on Jay Jay the Jet Plane.[6] In 2004, it was acquired by their senior management and Beringea through Global Rights II, through its parent company, PorchLight Worldwide, Inc.[7]
In 2011, Bruce D. Johnson, one of PorchLight's co-founders, started Foxfield Entertainment.[8]
In 2018, PorchLight Entertainment was acquired by Trilogy Animation Group.[9]
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.
On April 24, 2008, PorchLight launched a Christian content sub-label called PorchLight INSPIRE.[13] On May 5, the company announced to enter the Blu-ray market.[14] The company launched another label later on in the year – Ocean Park Home Entertainment – for independent film acquisitions.[15]
In August 2009, PorchLight appointed Canada-based E1 Entertainment as the distributor for their products.[16] 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.[17]
Releases
Products released by the subsidiary were either existing content from PorchLight's content library or third-party acquisitions.
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