Mill Creek Entertainment is an American home video company founded in 2002 by Ian Warfield, Robert Zakheim and Scott Moss in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The Mill Creek Entertainment catalog draws from over 12,000 hours of owned and licensed content, including contemporary and classic feature films, as well as television, animations, documentary, special interest, family entertainment and fitness content. The company's licensing partnerships with major studios include Buena Vista Home Entertainment (until 2016), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, NBCUniversal, and Warner Home Video.
The company is known for its multi-film DVD collections, which draw heavily (but not exclusively) from material in the public domain in the United States. The company also produces its own original documentary programming, including the National Parks Explorer Series, Up from Slavery, Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob, The Ultimate Civil War Series, America's Serial Killers, and The Decade You Were Born series. Mill Creek acquired the library of Crown International Pictures from now defunct Navarre Corporation subsidiary BCI Home Entertainment.
On April 23, 2012, Mill Creek announced that they had signed a home video distribution deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, acquiring the rights to distribute 250 films from the Sony Pictures catalog on DVD and Blu-ray. On August 27, Mill Creek announced that they had signed a long term distribution deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to distribute an additional 665 films and 54 TV series from the Sony Pictures library.
Mill Creek announced that they had signed a home video distribution deal with Warner Home Video and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment acquiring the rights to distribute films and TV on DVD and Blu-ray.
Releases[]
Films[]
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1952; originally distributed by Warner Bros.)
- North (1994; produced by New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment independently)
- The King and I (1999, produced by Morgan Creek Productions, Rich Animation Studios, Rankin/Bass Productions and Nest Entertainment and originally distributed by Warner Bros.)
Television[]
- Johnny Test (2005-2014; co-productions: Warner Bros. Animation, Coliseum Entertainment, Cookie Jar Entertainment and DHX Media; Johnny Test and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)