Anchor Bay Entertainment is a U.S. based home entertainment and production company and is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of Starz, LLC. It was previously owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series, television specials and short films to consumers worldwide. In 2004, Anchor Bay agreed to have their movies distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Anchor Bay Entertainment can date its origins back to two separate home video distributors: Video Treasures, formed in 1985, and Starmaker... Entertainment, founded sometime in the late 1980s. Both companies sold budget items - reissues of previously released home video programming - at discount prices. Video Treasures started with public domain titles, and later made licensing deals with Heron Communications , Britt Allcroft , Trans World Entertainment, Regal Video, Virgin Vision, Hal Roach Studios, Jerry Lewis, and Orion Pictures, among others.
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