When was Relic Entertainment established?
Alex Garden
Alex Garden is the CEO of Vancouver-based game developer Relic Entertainment, which he co-founded with Luke Moloney in 1997. In February 2005, he founded the company iVALET Systems Inc. to develop an advanced parking system. In July 2005, he co-founded Klei Entertainment, a Vancouver-based video game development studio, with Jamie Cheng. On November 3, 2006, Alex Garden joined Nexon to run Nexon's North American game development studio, Nexon Publishing North America. In October, 2009, Alex Garden joined Microsoft to work in their games division, Microsoft Game Studios. On April 23, 2014, Zynga announced that Alex Garden was hired to become President of Zynga Studios with a start date of May 5, 2014. On 13 April 2016 Alex Garden returned to Relic Entertainment as CEO. In 2016 Garden founded Zume Pizza.
John Reid (music manager)
Reid began his music management career in 1967 at the age of 18 as a promoter for EMI. At the age of 19, he became the Tamla Motown label manager for the UK. In 1971, Reid set up his own company with a few hundred pounds in savings and a £5,000 loan. He had met Elton John, then known as Reg Dwight, at a Motown Christmas party. They moved in with each other, became lovers, and John became Reid's first client.
React Music Limited
React Music Limited was a London-based independent record label that was formed in 1990 by James Horrocks and Thomas Foley. James Horrocks was initially involved with successful dance music independent Rhythm King, and React pursued a similar approach—specifically electronic dance music, house music, acid house, techno and rave along with newer "dance" oriented subgenres which emerged throughout the '90s—including hard house, tech house, trance, hardbag, happy hardcore, drum and bass and chill out.
Relic Entertainment
Relic released the sequel to "Dawn of War", "", on February 18, 2009. It featured the introduction of the Tyranids to the "Dawn of War" series. In an attempt to avoid recent complaints about digital rights management, Relic chose to release "Dawn of War II" on Steam and use Games for Windows – Live to arrange multiplayer matches. Subsequently expanded with "" in March 2010, and "" in March 2011, the latter saw the multiplayer platform move to Steamworks.
The Mirror Theater Ltd
The Mirror Theater was founded by Sabra Jones in 1983, who was also the Founding Artistic Director. The first program of the theater was the Mirror Repertory Company (MRC). Founding members of the company included Eva La Gallienne, John Strasberg, and Geraldine Page. Sabra Jones reached out to Ellis Rabb, Artistic Director of the APA Phoenix Repertory Company, John Houseman of the Mercury Theater, and Eva La Gallienne of the Civic Repertory Theatre Company. The company was intended to be "an
alternating repertory company in the classic sense" of actor-manager leadership, which Rabb, Houseman, and La Gallienne pioneered. Alternating repertory refers to when one company performs a variety of plays in the same season with the
same actors, which was formerly a mainstay of theater tradition. This system has been
attributed with helping actors grow in their craft through a wide variety of roles. MRC was funded in its inception primarily by philanthropist
Laurance S. Rockefeller, with additional donations from philanthropists and actors such as Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and others.
Sierra Entertainment
Despite the layoffs, Sierra continued to publish games for smaller development houses. In September 1999, they released "Homeworld", a real-time space-combat strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment. The game design was revolutionary for the genre, and the game received great critical acclaim and many awards.
New Relic
In February 2013, New Relic (NR) raised $80 million from investors including Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Benchmark Capital, Allen & Company, Trinity Ventures, Passport Capital, Dragoneer, and Tenaya Capital at a valuation of $750 million. The funding round helped New Relic extend its software analytics platform to include Android and iOS native mobile apps. In April 2014, New Relic raised another $100 million in funding led by BlackRock, Inc., and Passport Capital, with participation from T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Wellington Management. Board members are Peter Fenton of Benchmark, Dan Scholnick of Trinity Ventures, Peter Currie of Currie Capital, Adam Messinger of Twitter, Sarah Friar of Square, and Lew Cirne. New Relic went public on December 12, 2014.
Mark Rezyka
Mark Rezyka (born 11 June 1959, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is best known as a top director of heavy metal videos in the 1980s and 1990s. With partners Marcelo Epstein and Dominic Orlando, he founded Pendulum Productions in 1982, and directed over 300 music videos over the next 15 years. Artists included Quiet Riot, Kiss, Ratt, Cinderella, Whitesnake, Survivor, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, and Joan Jett, among others.
Death of an Indie Label
James Smith and his younger brother, Esham, a rapper, found the independent record label Reel Life Productions in 1988. In 1989, Esham records his debut album, "Boomin' Words from Hell" in one day. In 1992, Esham founds a group, Natas, who release their debut album, "Life After Death" on Reel Life. Natas and Reel Life Productions are the subject of much controversy when a 17-year-old fan killed himself while smoking cannabis and playing Russian roulette while listening to "Life After Death". Esham goes on to influence local artists Kid Rock, Eminem and Insane Clown Posse. James Smith, the CEO of Reel Life Productions, is diagnosed with schizophrenia following a prison sentence. Smith's deteriorating mental state is depicted. Due to the poor living conditions of his apartment, James is evicted by his landlady, and moves in with Esham.
Empire Resorts
Empire Resorts was founded in 2003 through a consolidation of Alpha Hospitality and Catskill Development LLC, a company that had purchased the Monticello Raceway in 1996. The consolidation was carried out by Robert A. Berman, who in the previous year had been offered control as CEO of Alpha Hospitality by Stanley Tollman.
In 2003, Berman restructured Alpha Hospitality after principal shareholders of the Bryanston Group (Alpha Hopitality’s controlling shareholder) were indicted on tax-related charges. Berman restored financial stability by selling off non-essential gaming assets and merging the company with Catskill Development LLC, which led to the creation of Empire Resorts that same year. During this time Berman also arranged for Empire Resorts to sell common stock through Jefferies Group.
In 2003 Empire Resorts became a NASDAQ Global Market company, trading under the ticker symbol "NYNY." In 2004 Empire Resorts entered into an agreement to purchase the Concord Resort Hotel from Louis R. Cappelli. The transaction was later modified by Kien Huat Realty, which gave way to the $1.5 billion resort project currently financed and under construction by Empire Resorts. The project is located on the site of Adelaar, a resort developed by Entertainment Properties Trust within the Concord Resort Hotel. The entertainment complex will include an 80,000 sq. ft. casino, multiple hotel properties, waterparks, and a retail village, dining and entertainment areas. The project is expected to be concluded by 2018.
In 2009, Kien Huat Realty invested a further $55 million in new equity capital, which represented just below 50% of the voting power of Empire Resorts. Kien Huat is an investment branch of the Genting Group, a large leisure and gambling conglomerate founded by Malaysian entrepreneur Lim Goh Tong. Kien Huat, which had previously financed the startup of Foxwoods Resort Casino and the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel in New York, was fronted by CEO Lim Kok Thay (Lim Goh Tong’s son).
In 2010 the Genting Group won a bid to build a racino similar to what it owned in Monticello at Aqueduct Racetrack in New York City. In December 2015, Empire Resorts received a full gaming license for Montreign Resort Casino in New York. On February 2016, Kien Huat Realty purchased $290 million worth of shares, giving the firm 88.7% ownership of Empire Resorts.
Empire Resorts currently owns and manages several subsidiaries in the hospitality and gaming industries. The company owns and operates Monticello Raceway and casino in New York through its subsidiary, Monticello Raceway Management, Inc. The 230-acre (93 ha) property is located approximately 90 miles northwest of New York City. The complex offers over 1,110 VGMs, with over 40 electronic table game positions, over 1,000 video lottery terminal slot machines, electronic table games, and one of the largest all-weather harness horse racing tracks in the nation.
Rhythm King
Starting out as an offshoot of Daniel Miller's critically acclaimed Mute Records Rhythm King's initial focus was dance music - specifically house music, acid house, acid jazz, sampling culture and hip hop/rap. Strongman's rap/funk offshoot, Flame Records, signed proto-gangsta rapper Schoolly D and Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers amongst others. James Horrocks left the label at the end of 1987 and subsequently went on to form React Music Limited in 1990 which also had a focus upon dance music. This left Martin Heath in sole charge of the label; however by the beginning of 1988 Rhythm King was to enjoy a period of short term success which went hand in hand with the dominance dance music had in the UK singles chart from the late 1980s to the beginning of the 2000s.
Rackham
Rackham (later, Rackham Entertainment) was a French miniature and role-playing games production company founded in 1997 by Jean Bey, CEO and Creative Director. At its peak, Rackham had over 70 employees, including designers, illustrators, writers, sculptors, painters, and foundry-workers, and were managed by Jean Bey until November 2008. Following the transformation to Rackham Entertainment, Jean Bey retained only his Art Director position and the management of the Sentinel program.
David O. Selznick
After "Rebecca", Selznick closed Selznick International Pictures and took some time off. His business activities included the loan of his contracted artists to other studios, including Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh and Joan Fontaine. He formed The Selznick Studio and returned to producing pictures with "Since You Went Away" (1944), which he also wrote. He followed that with the Hitchcock films "Spellbound" (1945) and "The Paradine Case" (1947), as well as "Portrait of Jennie" (1948) with Jennifer Jones. He also developed film projects and sold the packages to other producers. Among the movies that he developed but then sold was Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946). In 1949 he co-produced the Carol Reed picture "The Third Man" with Alexander Korda.
Relic Entertainment
In May 2012, Relic Entertainment announced it was developing the highly anticipated sequel "Company of Heroes 2" for the PC platform, scheduled for release in early 2013. In this sequel the game moves the battle away from the Western Front of World War II and refocuses on the Eastern Front.
Relix
The group included Baron, the editorial team of Dean Budnick and Mike Greenhaus, advertising team of Rachel Seiden and Cole Boyle along with Shapiro. "Relix" releases eight issues a year, each with a compilation CD inside featuring artists from that particular issue and up-and-coming bands. Since 2009, Relix Media group has co-founded doNYC, a New York-area event database, with partners DoStuff Media and Bowery Presents, and started the Hear & There advertising network. In 2013, Baron stepped down as Editor, leading Budnick and Greenhaus to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief. Relix spent much of 2013 counting down to its 40th anniversary. As part of the magazine's anniversary campaign, artists core to the magazine's history—including The Who, Dave Matthews Band, Warren Haynes, Phil Lesh, Widespread Panic, Jack Johnson and Kings of Leon—received cover profiles. The magazine also launched the Relix 40 list, compiling the best books, live albums, guitar solos and jams since Relix's first issue.
Relic Entertainment
On August 21, 2017, Microsoft announced that Relic will develop "Age of Empires IV".
Maverick (company)
Maverick was an American entertainment company founded in 1992 by Madonna, Frederick DeMann, and Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev, and formerly owned and operated by Warner Music Group. It included a recording company (Maverick Records), a film production company (Maverick Films), book publishing, music publishing, a Latin record division (Maverick Musica), and a television production company. The first releases for the company were Madonna's 1992 coffee table publication "Sex" and her studio album "Erotica", which were released simultaneously to great controversy.
Reliance MediaWorks
The company was initially established as Adlabs Films Limited in 1975 by Manmohan Shetty. The company began to expand into the film industry and in 2001, the company entered the multiplex business, setting up the world’s largest 3D IMAX screen in Mumbai.
Reflec Beat
Reflec Beat (stylised as REFLEC BEAT and occasionally shortened to Rb) is a series of music video games by Konami which debuted in 2010. Reflec Beat uses a touch screen as its main method of control - the first in the Bemani series to do so - and has gameplay based on 2-player competition, which has been compared to air hockey.
L.A. Reid
After The Deele disbanded, Reid and bandmate Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds founded LaFace in 1989 through a joint venture with Arista Records, with funding from Arista Records creator Clive Davis. The label soon became one of the premiere destinations for popular African-American entertainers who created Black Pop music that was easily accessible to both Urban and Top 40 radio formats. Reid signed 14-year-old Usher to the label, whose six album releases have sold 65 million units worldwide. Other popular acts on the label during its peak include Toni Braxton, TLC, and Outkast. Both TLC and Toni Braxton went on to sell more than 65 million records each. Initially headquartered in Atlanta, the label played a significant role in developing the city's music industry.
Reid formed the Hitco Publishing Group in 1996, as a joint venture with Windswept Music. While starting up Hitco, Reid, looking to connect to a new market of producers, songwriters and talent, hired Shakir Stewart whom he saw as someone with "a finger on the pulse of the next generation of hot producers in the Atlanta music scene". Shakir's first job in the music industry was as a creative executive at Hitco; he went on to become a senior vice president at Island Def Jam Music Group.
Rustix
Rustix formed in 1967; the band was signed to Rare Earth Records, a Motown Records subsidiary. Prior to signing with Rare Earth, the band had a single on the Cadet Records label. Prior to their recording career, the group had been a popular attraction in upstate New York, opening for Jimi Hendrix and Soft Machine at one point. Among their singles were "Can't You Hear the Music Play" from the album "Bedlam", released in 1969 and "Come On People" from the album of the same name, released in 1970. "Bedlam" peaked at No. 200 on the "Billboard" 200. A sophomore effort, "Come On People", followed in 1970; both of the group's first two records were produced by R. Dean Taylor. A third album was recorded in 1971 but never released, and the group disbanded later that year. At that point, Chuck Brucato and Al Galich recorded a pair of songs under the Rustix name ("We All End Up In Boxes" and "My Peace Of Heaven") backed by the Funk Brothers. Both were released in 1971, and both backed by a Rustix outtake from their 2nd album sessions ("Down Down").
Bob Rafelson
While working on the TV series "The Wackiest Ship in the Army" for Screen Gems in 1965, Rafelson met fellow producer Bert Schneider. They became fast friends and created the company Raybert Productions together that year. Raybert would later become BBS Productions and produce films as a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. Encouraged by the Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night" and Beatlemania in general, Rafelson and Schneider's first project was a television series about a rock 'n' roll group. However, Rafelson said, "I had conceived the show before The Beatles existed," and it was based on his time as an itinerant musician more "interested in having fun" than "in earning a living." Raybert Productions sold the idea to Screen Gems and, when they were unable to get either the Dave Clark Five or the Lovin' Spoonful for the show, ran ads in "Daily Variety" and "The Hollywood Reporter" for musicians. The band that they created was The Monkees and the series ran from 1966 until 1968.
New Relic
On November 5, 2012, CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District in New York. The lawsuit claims that New Relic violated three patents that came into CA Technologies' possession through acquisitions. The three patents in question are numbers B2; B1; and B2. This is the first of two actions CA Technologies has filed in connection with alleged infringement of patents obtained in the acquisition of Wily Technology (the company that was also founded by Lew Cirne). In April 2013, CA Technologies filed a lawsuit asserting patent infringement of the same three APM patents against software developer AppDynamics. However, on April 20, 2015 AppDynamics and CA settled the two-year-old patent dispute. AppDynamics said that it paid a "modest fixed payment."
Peter Shapiro (concert promoter)
Founded in 1974, Relix is currently the second longest running magazine devoted to rock music published in the United States.
Legend Entertainment
By 1994 games like "Xanth" and "Eric the Unready" gave Legend a reputation for comedy adventures. The company was acquired by GT Interactive in 1998 and began changing their focus to action games. They developed a first-person shooter based on Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" and finished the development of the second part in the Unreal series in 2002. Late in 2003, they released a free expansion for "", known as XMP ("eXpanded MultiPlayer"). In 1999, GT Interactive was purchased outright by Infogrames, who later acquired and rebranded themselves as Atari.
Keith Fowler
He returned to Richmond in 1978 with his associate director M. Elizabeth Osborn to lease the Empire Theater (since renamed the November Theater), fronting historically black residential Jackson Ward onto the majority business district, where together they founded the American Revels Company.
Revels attracted progressive support for appealing to both black and white communities in Richmond. Without intending to enter into Richmond's post-segregation politics, Fowler nevertheless found Revels becoming a rallying point in the late 1970s for re-balancing the two symbiotic communities through art. Funding through the box office and City Council support was affected directly by public favor in a city with a growing black majority.
Relics (album)
Relics (subtitle: A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios) is a 1971 compilation album by Pink Floyd. The album was released in the UK on 14 May 1971 and in the United States on the following day. Initially released by Starline, the compilation was reissued by Music for Pleasure in the United Kingdom; Harvest and Capitol distributed the album in the United States. A remastered CD was released in 1996 with a different album cover, picturing a three-dimensional model based on the sketch drawn by drummer Nick Mason for the initial release.
Relic Entertainment
Their next title was "Impossible Creatures", released by Microsoft on January 7, 2003. It focused on a fictional environment during the 1930s, allowing players to design units from different anatomical parts of animals. The game was successful, though it did not receive the same attention as "Homeworld".
Rockland Records
Kelly founded Rockland Records in 1998, in conjunction with Universal Music Group, shortly before releasing his fourth album ("R.").
Rockland's artists included Sparkle, rappers Boo & Gotti, Talent, and Vegas Cats (the latter two groups never released an album) among others. The soundtrack to the 1999 Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy movie "Life" was released on the Rockland label, and Sparkle was the first artist to release an album on the label. Despite various conflicts between Sparkle and the label, her debut album performed well, going platinum. The album's most popular track was a duet between Kelly and Sparkle titled "Be Careful".
Impossible Creatures
Impossible Creatures is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 and developed by Relic Entertainment in conjunction with Microsoft Studios. Its unique feature is that the armies used are all created by the player. The armies consist of 9 creatures; each one is a combination of any two animals from a list of 76 (51 with no downloads). Many animals possess inherent abilities to add more strategic depth to the game. There is an extensive single-player campaign as well as online multiplayer functionality with different game modes, add-ons, custom maps, mods, and scenarios.
Regal Cinemas
As Regal consolidated the three chains, CineMedia began work on a new digital distribution system to provide a new "preshow", replacing the slides and film advertisements with digital content. NBC and Turner Broadcasting were among the first to sign on to provide content for the venture, and the preshow, dubbed "The 2wenty", debuted in February 2003; this pre-film preshow is now known as "Regal FirstLook". The new distribution system was also meant to be used for special events such as concerts. Regal CineMedia merged with AMC Theatres' National Cinema Network in 2005 to form National CineMedia. In effect, this was a takeover of NCN by Regal CineMedia, as Kurt Hall stayed on as CEO and AMC adopted Regal's preshow. Regal owned 50% of the new company before it went public.
Since the 2002 formation of REG, it has acquired several smaller chains. In April 2005, Eastern Federal, which was a fairly prominent theatre company in the Southeastern United States, was brought into the Regal family. It acquired San Ramon, California–based Signature Theatres from Phil Harris on September 30, 2004, and took over the US assets of Hoyts Cinemas in 2004. Unlike the merger with UA and Edwards, Regal has rebranded all of these theatres as Regal Cinemas. In February 2013, Regal agreed to purchase Hollywood Theaters, a nationwide chain of 46 theaters that operated from Portland, Oregon. The sale was closed on April 1, 2013. In May 2017 Regal purchased the $200 million company Warren Theaters based in Wichita, Kansas. The sale included all Warren Theater locations in Wichita KS as well as those in Moore and Broken Arrow OK. The theaters will continue operation under the Warren name.
Shabs Jobanputra
Originally set up (in 1999) as a joint venture with Ministry of Sound, Relentless was at first conceived as a vehicle for one-off dance singles The label’s debut release - Artful Dodger featuring Craig David’s "Re-Rewind" - sold 700,000 copies and marked the point at which the UK Garage genre moved from the underground into the pop mainstream. Subsequent hits included as Daniel Bedingfield’s "Gotta Get Thru This" and So Solid Crew’s "21 Seconds".
In the course of its subsequent evolution, first as part of EMI (from 2003 to 2009) and now Sony, Relentless broadened its musical base to launch the careers of Joss Stone and KT Tunstall among others. And in the 2009-11 period, when the label was sold to Virgin and Shabs Jobanputra became president of Virgin UK, artists he signed to the label included Emeli Sande, Professor Green, Swedish House Mafia and Deadmau5. During this three year timespan, Jobanputra also co-wrote an international top 10 hit - Jay Sean’s "Eyes on You" - with Norwegian production team Stargate, and launched a legal challenge to Coke over rights to the Relentless brand name.
Relic Entertainment
In early September 2011, Relic released its second cross platform console title, "". It was released for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on September 6, 2011, in North America and September 9, 2011, in Europe. It features the Ultramarines chapter. Its gameplay focuses on a hybrid shooting and melee combat model.
Company of Heroes 2
Company of Heroes 2 is a real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sega for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. It is the sequel to the 2006 game "Company of Heroes". As with the original "Company of Heroes", the game is set in World War II but with the focus on the Eastern Front, with players primarily controlling the side of the Soviet Red Army during various stages of the Eastern Front, from Operation Barbarossa to the Battle of Berlin. "Company of Heroes 2" runs on Relic Entertainment's proprietary Essence 3.0 game engine.
Cinemark Theatres
Cinemark was started by Lee Roy Mitchell as a chain of theatres in California, Texas, and Utah. It is unclear when Cinemark was first founded. While Cinemark officially claims to have launched in 1984 (and previously claimed a 1983 founding date), online records show Cinemark might have started as early as 1977. With the opening of the Movies 8 Texarkana in 1987, Cinemark began building theaters with colorful interiors and large video game arcades. The following year, Cinemark introduced its Front Row Joe mascot. This animated cat appeared in policy trailers and on kids' concession products. The mascot was retired in 1998 when Cinemark had begun to open Art Deco-style theatres, and was revived in 2002. In 1992, Cinemark opened a new theater concept called Hollywood USA in Garland, Texas. The following year, Cinemark expanded to Latin America with the opening of a theater in Santiago, Chile. The next year, Cinemark opened four theaters in Mexico. In 1998, Cinemark announced that it would replace its bright color interiors with what Cinemark characterized as a more classic Art Deco design. Through new theatre construction and acquisitions, it became the third largest theatre chain in the United States and the second largest theatre chain in the world. Mitchell's son Kevin Mitchell worked with the company as an executive until leaving in 2007 to found ShowBiz Cinemas. In 2013, Cinemark decided to sell all of its Mexican theaters to Cinemex.
Lew Cirne
Cirne pioneered application performance management (APM) software technology as the founder and CEO of Wily Technology, which was acquired by CA, Inc. in March 2006. 
Cirne founded the company New Relic in 2008.
The Relic (film)
"The Relic" premièred on January 17, 1997. It opened #1 at the box office, grossing $9,064,143 its opening week and a total of $33,956,608 in the US, against an estimated cost $60 million. It was released on Blu-ray on April 6, 2010.
Relentless Software
Relentless Software was a British video game company formed in 2003 that was based in Brighton. The company was best known for developing 12 games in the BAFTA award winning and multi-million selling "Buzz!" franchise from 2005 to 2010. Relentless released its first self-published title, "Blue Toad Murder Files" on PC and PSN in 2009 and "Quiz Climber Rivals", for iPhone in 2011. Relentless has also developed "Air Band" and "Mutation Station", for the "Kinect Fun Labs" series. In 2012 it released "Kinect Nat Geo TV", after which co-founder David Amor left the studio. In 2014 the studio released "Murder Files: The Enigma Express" on iOS, Google Play, Google Chrome and Kindle Fire. In 2016 the studio was shut down. The studio was working on an unannounced title for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One before closure.
History of Sega
In 2005, Sega sold Visual Concepts to Take-Two Interactive, and purchased UK-based developer Creative Assembly, known for its "Total War" series. In the same year, Sega Racing Studio was also formed by former Codemasters employees. In 2006, Sega Europe purchased Sports Interactive, known for its "Football Manager" series. Sega of America purchased Secret Level in 2006, which was renamed to Sega Studios San Francisco in 2008. In early 2008, Sega announced that they would re-establish an Australian presence, as a subsidiary of Sega of Europe, with a development studio branded as Sega Studios Australia. In the same year, Sega launched a subscription based flash website called "PlaySEGA" which played emulated versions of Sega Genesis as well original web-based flash games. It was subsequently shut down due to low subscription numbers. In 2013, following THQ's bankruptcy, Sega bought Relic Entertainment, known for its "Company of Heroes" series. In 2008, Sega announced the closure of Sega Racing Studio, although the studio was later acquired by Codemasters. Closures of Sega Studios San Francisco and Sega Studios Australia followed in 2010 and 2013, respectively.
Relic Entertainment
There has been speculation supported through various sources that Relic has re-acquired the rights to the "Homeworld" franchise from Vivendi. Finally, following the discovery of a document on the United States Patent and Trademark Office's electronic filing system by a fan, THQ confirmed that Relic indeed owns the trademark again, making a continuation of the series under THQ's lead possible. However, no comment on future installments was given.
Klei Entertainment
In 2017, Klei Entertainment acquired Slick Entertainment. Slick founder Nick Waanders and Jamie Cheng previously worked together at Relic Entertainment, which established a working relationship that later allowed the companies to merge.
Wild Records
Wild Records was formed in 2001. The first band that was signed to the label was Lil Luis y Los Wild Teens, who recorded a Mexican rock and roll song called "La Rebeldona". Since that first 45 R.P.M. release, Wild Records has worked to sign, promote, book, and record artists. They have been widely celebrated for their artists' unique ability to make contemporary music while still remaining authentic and true to the original styles that have inspired them. Acts on the label regularly headline worldwide rockabilly and rock n' roll festivals such as The Rockabilly Rave, High Rockabilly, Viva Las Vegas, Sjock Festival and Let's Get Wild. Wild Records and founder Reb Kennedy is the subject of an independent film release entitled "Los Wild Ones" in 2013. The film has toured the international film circuit to generally positive praise. The film is noteworthy in that it concentrates on not just music, but the personal relationships of the musicians inside
Steve Rennie
Rennie began his music career working as a booking agent at USC. After dropping out of college in 1980 he decided to start his own concert promotion company called Steve Rennie Presents after being passed over for a job in the mailroom at William Morris because he had not completed college. For the next 2 1/2 years he promoted a number of up and coming 'new wave' bands including the Motels, The Plimsouls, Adam Ant, X, the Blasters, Mötley Crüe and INXS in secondary markets outside LA. On New Year's Eve 1983, he had his first big breakthrough in LA booking The Motels at the Beverly Theater in Beverly Hills, CA, getting the nod to promote show over the big promoters in town. By 1983 he had caught the attention of Southern California's leading concert promotion, Avalon Attractions, who offered him a chance to join the company which he accepted. He soon rose to the ranks to become the Senior VP at Avalon Attractions. In 1990 he left Avalon Attractions to start his first incarnation of REN Management Corporation, an artist management firm where he managed a number of top alternative bands including Dramarama, The Wonder Stuff, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, , and Primal Scream. In 1994, he accepted an offer from then Epic Records President and now One Direction Manager, Richard Griffiths, where he became Senior Vice President/GM.While at Epic Records he met and helped sign a young So Cal band called Incubus. While at Epic he took the band under his wing and helped them build the foundation of what became one of the most successful alt rock bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1998 Rennie left Epic to become one of the founding members of one of the pioneering internet music start-ups, ARTISTdirect. When Rennie informed the members of Incubus that he would be leaving Epic to join his friends Marc Geiger and Don Muller at Artist Direct, guitarist Mike Einziger asked Rennie to co-manage the band with their then manager, Mark Shoffner. Rennie accepted the offer and stayed at ARTISTdirect until 2000 when he left the company to manage the band on a full-time basis. Shortly thereafter, the band released their breakthrough multi platinum selling album MAKE YOURSELF. Over the next 14 years, the band went on to have a #1 Billboard Top 100 album and (2) #2 Top 100 album and a dozen Top 10 alternative radio hits. During his tenure as manager the band built a huge live touring business around the world and one of the most dedicated and loyal fan bases in the music scene. In January 2014, the band and Rennie parted company. Today, all of Rennie's focus is towards his new venture Renmanmb, which is a mecca for all aspiring artist and music business professionals to come and learn the "real" music business from some of the smartest, most talented, and successful people in the music industry.
Rockstar Leeds
Rockstar Leeds Limited (formerly Möbius Entertainment Limited) is a British video game developer based in Leeds, England. The company was founded as Möbius Entertainment in December 1997, by Gordon Hall, Jason McGann, Dave Box and Ian J. Bowden. The company developed numerous titles for Game Boy Advance, including an adaptation of Remedy Entertainment's "Max Payne" (2001), which was published by Rockstar Games in late 2003. In April 2004, Rockstar Games' parent company, Take-Two Interactive, announced that they had acquired Möbious Entertainment. As part of the agreement, the company became part of the Rockstar Games label, and was renamed Rockstar Leeds.
Reinhold Mack
Reinhold Mack, also known as Mack, is a German record producer and sound engineer, mostly known for his collaborations with rock bands Electric Light Orchestra and Queen. Most of this work took place at Giorgio Moroder's Musicland Studios in Munich, which became famous after Marc Bolan & T.Rex (with producer Tony Visconti) first discovered it for recordings in 1973. In 1981 the Queen album "The Game" brought Mack and the band a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year (Non-Classical).
Rory Alec
Alec married Wendy Alec in 1987, and separated in 2014, established the TV commercial production house Alec-Gene Productions. In 1991 they moved to the UK where they launched Europe's first daily faith-based TV network in 1995. The couple divorced in 2015.
Twenty-One (game show)
Jack Barry finally returned to game show hosting in 1969, succeeding Dennis Wholey on ABC's "The Generation Gap" for which he publicly thanked the producers and ABC-TV for giving him a chance for a comeback. In 1971, he sold ABC his first new game show "The Reel Game" which he also hosted. It ran for 13 weeks. He became a success again as a producer-host with "The Joker's Wild", which ran on CBS from 1972–1975 and in syndication from 1977–1986 (Barry died in May 1984 and was replaced by Bill Cullen for the final two years). Enright would work as "Joker"s executive producer in the final year on CBS, and the two revived their partnership full-time in 1976, reviving "Tic-Tac-Dough" which also ran until 1986. It was revived once more in 1990, but was cancelled after a few months. Enright died in 1992.
Gabby Revilla
Gabby Revilla is an independent producer and the principal of Revek Entertainment. By the end of 2013, Revilla will have produced 8 titles including, Jason Blum’s Stage Fright, Caliber Media and Revek Entertainment’s Some Kind of Hate, Peter and Antonia Bogdanovich's, "Phantom Halo", and Paramount Insurge’s Destination Wedding. Her company also owns GNR Casting & Talent which has cast and booked TV and multi-media projects for AOL, Café Mom, GSN, Bravo, Rogue State, The Conlin Company, World of Wonder, etc. She has produced several films including Matthew Lillard's directorial debut, Fat Kid Rules The World, winner of the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival. She has also produced short film projects for Universal, Right of Way Films, and Blumhouse. Most recently, Gabby produced Jason Reitman and Jason Blum's Whiplash, which won the Sundance Jury Selection Short Film Award.
Reik
In 2003, Abelardo Vazquez ended their then-nascent musical project, tentatively called "Reik". Abelardo Vazquez invited Jesús Navarro and Julio Ramirez to record their first demos, which were released through the Mexican underground club scene. Two of the most successful demos — "Levemente" and "Ahora Sin Ti" — brought more widespread coverage across Mexico. In early 2004, Reik invited Gilberto to join the band. They have been famous ever since, mainly in Latin America and the United States. Their videos have been broadcast on famous music television channels, such as MTV and HTV. Their second studio album, "Secuencia", was released on December 12, 2006, which featured the first single, "Invierno" (released on September 18), which gained a lot of popularity based Latin American airplay. On September 30, 2008 "Reik" released their third studio album "Un Día Más", for which they won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Album by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 2009.
Edward Small
In 1932, Small formed Reliance Pictures together with partner Harry M. Goetz. The new company was to be made with finance from Art Cinema, a subsidiary company of United Artists, in a deal brokered by Joseph Schenck. On the basis of this verbal commitment, Small and Goetz started pre production on three films. However, when Schenck presented the deal to Art Cinema's board, it was turned down. An embarrassed Schenck decided personally put up half the cost of the three films, with the other half met by Small and Goetz.
John Rich (producer)
John Rich (1692–1761) was an important director and theatre manager in 18th-century London. He opened the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields (1714), which he managed until he opened the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (1732). He managed Covent Garden until 1761, putting on ever more lavish productions. He introduced pantomime to the English stage and played a dancing and mute Harlequin himself from 1717 to 1760 under the stage name of "Lun." Rich's version of the servant character, Arlecchino, moved away from the poor, disheveled, loud, and crude character, to a colorfully-dressed, silent Harlequin, performing fanciful tricks, dances and magic. The British idea of the Harlequin character was heavily inspired by Rich's idea of a silent character. Rich's choice of being a silent character was influenced by his unappealing voice, which he was well aware of.
Relic Entertainment
On September 25, 2007, "", the stand alone expansion pack to "Company of Heroes" was released. It introduced two new playable armies, the British 2nd Army and the German Panzer Elite.
Villain Entertainment
Villain Entertainment is a record label, founded by gangsta rapper MC Ren, in Palm Springs, California in 1999. The label's focus was gangsta rap genre of West Coast hip hop.
Company of Heroes
"Company of Heroes Online" was a free MMO real-time strategy computer game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. The open beta for the game started on 2 September 2010, and the game was cancelled on 31 March 2011. The game has no link with the original "Company of Heroes" multiplayer system and is a stand-alone game, unlike its predecessors. The game uses the same graphics engine as the retail release of "Company of Heroes". Relic also released a Chinese and a South Korean version of the game. The Chinese version was co-developed and published by Shanda while the South Korean version was published by WindySoft and developed entirely by Relic Entertainment. The Korean and American versions featured the entire single-player campaign from the retail release while the Chinese version did not.
Ellis Rabb
Ellis W. Rabb (June 20, 1930, Memphis, Tennessee – January 11, 1998, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American actor and director who in 1959 formed the Association of Producing Artists, a theatre company that brought new works and noteworthy revivals to Broadway and to regional theatres. The APA merged with the Phoenix Theatre in 1964 and as the APA-Phoenix went on to mount Broadway revivals of "Man and Superman, The Show Off, Right You Are If You Think You Are," and "Hamlet" (in which Rabb played the title role) among others, with the APA-Phoenix receiving a special Tony Award for distinguished achievement prior to disbanding in 1969.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and based on Games Workshop's tabletop wargame "Warhammer 40,000". It was released by THQ on September 20, 2004 in North America and on September 24 in Europe. Three expansion packs have been released: "" in 2005, "" in 2006, and "" in 2008. Its first sequel, "" was released in February 2009. Another sequel, "", was announced in May 2016 and released in April 2017.
Relish (American band)
Relish was an American band in the 1990s that began in Fullerton, California. Relish was composed of Michele Walker (vocals, guitar), Laurita Guaico (guitar, vocals), Gina Karaba (bass, vocals), and Lynnae Hitchcock (drums, vocals). Performing extensively through Southern California, and participating in the Warped Tour, they released a full-length self-titled CD in 1999 and a 7" single on Volcom Entertainment before disbanding.
Iron Lore Entertainment
It was announced in the October 2007 issue of Games for Windows Magazine that Iron Lore Entertainment was assisting with the development of the Relic Entertainment title "", which was the third and final expansion for "Dawn of War". It proved to be their last project.
Slick Rick
Richard Martin Lloyd Walters (born January 14, 1965); better known as Slick Rick, Rick The Ruler and MC Ricky D, is a British-American rapper. He has released four albums: "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick" (1988), "The Ruler's Back" (1991), "Behind Bars" (1994) and "The Art of Storytelling" (1999). His music has been sampled and interpolated over 600 times, in over 35 songs by artists including Eminem, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, The Beastie Boys, TLC, Nas, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West, Black Star, The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, MC Ren, Montell Jordan and Color Me Badd. In the process, Walters has become the most-sampled hip-hop artist ever. Many of these songs based on Slick Rick samples went on to become hit singles. He's been a VH-1 "Hip Hop Honors" honoree, and About.com ranked him  12 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time, while "The Source" ranked him No. 15 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time. He has acted and cameoed in 10 movies and videos.
Regal Records (1949)
Regal Records was an American record label that issued popular music and jazz in the years after World War II. The label's headquarters were in Linden, New Jersey. This label was founded by David and Jules Braun, the founders of De Luxe Records, in 1949; it has no relation to the British, Spanish, or American versions from the 1920s. In the United States, there were also short-lived labels by this name based in California (1947–1949) and Michigan (1947), but these are unrelated to the Linden organization. This label also issued R&B and gospel music. A subsidiary called Tots and Teens issued children's records.
Reekus Records
Reekus Records is an Irish independent record label and publishing company based in Dublin, founded by Elvera Butler in 1981. The label specializes in the promotion of mostly Irish, alternative music.
Fender Custom Shop
An offshoot of Fender's forays into replicating the look of heavily worn instruments was the introduction of the Fender Relic series in the late 1990s. Urban legend states that idea came as guitarist Keith Richards of the British rock group The Rolling Stones told the Custom Shop that some replicas he commissioned for a Stones tour 'looked too new', stating: "Bash 'em up a bit and I'll play 'em," but this has been denied by multiple Fender employees and Richards himself. The true story stemmed from Stones' producer Don Was. In 1994 Jay W. Black, one of the Senior Master Builders at the time, attended a Stones recording session in Los Angeles. Was wanted Black to beat up his new Sadowsky bass that he was due to play with Bonnie Raitt at a Grammy Awards ceremony because he felt "it looked too squeaky clean".
Remedy Entertainment
Founded in August 1995 by members of demoscene group Future Crew, Remedy Entertainment created their first game, "Death Rally", in a team member's basement. Apogee Software served as the game's publisher, and continued to be involved in the production of their next title, "Max Payne", which received critical acclaim upon release. The game was followed by a sequel, "". After spending seven years working on the "Max Payne" franchise, the developer decided to create a new intellectual property called "Alan Wake". This title was once suspected to be vaporware because of the length of time it took to produce and release. It gained a cult following when it was released in 2010, though its sales were not enough to justify the production of a sequel. Remedy decided to pursue a new project named "Quantum Break", which further expanded the live-action component of "Alan Wake". The team had transitioned to become a multi-project studio since 2016, and had three projects in development, including "Control" and the single-player portions of "CrossFire HD" and "CrossFire 2".
Rezolution Pictures
Rezolution Pictures is a film and television production company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, focusing primarily on Canadian Aboriginal productions. The company was founded by the husband and wife team of Ernest Webb and Catherine Bainbridge in 2001. In 2009 and 2010, it won consecutive Canada Awards for its documentaries "Club Native" and "Reel Injun". "Reel Injun" also won Rezolution Pictures a Peabody Award.
Sonar Entertainment
Sonar Entertainment, Inc., formerly known as RHI Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment, Qintex Entertainment, HRI Group and Robert Halmi Inc., is an American entertainment company specializing in television miniseries and movies and owned by Catalyst Capital Group. The company was founded in 1979 by Robert Halmi Jr. and Robert Halmi Sr. (1924-2014) as Robert Halmi, Inc. The company uses the direct-to-series model for TV series.
Sam Renick
Samuel William Renick (May 14, 1910 – October 16, 1999) was an American jockey during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He was a founder of the Jockeys' Guild. After his career ended, Renick became one of television's first racing announcers.
Relic Online
Relic Online was an online gaming system that Relic/THQ uses for matchmaking in some Relic Entertainment games, replacing its previous use of GameSpy Arcade ("Dawn of War") and WON ("Homeworld"). Relic Online was developed by Relic/THQ and Quazal, and is completely separate from any GameSpy/WON systems. It has not been backported to older games such as "Dawn of War" and its expansions, but has appeared in Relic's "Company of Heroes" series of games. "" introduced new features to Relic Online such as arranged team automatches, with the changes being patched into the previous "Company of Heroes" games as well. Relic Online was notably absent in Relic/THQ's "Dawn of War II", however, which instead used a combination of Steam and Games for Windows – Live.
Rogue Entertainment
Rogue Entertainment was a computer game developer based in Dallas, Texas, which was active in the late 1990s. It was founded by Rich Fleider, Steve Maines, and Jim Molinets in 1994. Rogue Entertainment's office was in the same building as id Software, all of their games used game engines created by id Software, and two of their games were expansions for id Software's "Quake" series of games. The company's first game, "", was released as shareware on February 23, 1996, with the retail version later being released on May 31, 1996. Many former Rogue Entertainment employees moved to Nerve Software after Rogue Entertainment shut down.
Robert &quot;Bucket&quot; Hingley
Hingley emigrated to the United States in the late 1970s to manage the "Forbidden Planet" comic shop in New York City before forming The Toasters in 1981. After failing to convince American labels on the viability of ska music in terms of a domestic record deal, he founded Moon Ska Records, an independent ska record label, in 1983. The label went on to become the benchmark of the genre for fifteen years before folding in 2000. The label pressed more than 1,500,000 copies of releases by many notable ska bands. In 2003 he founded Megalith Records. Hingley continues to tour and record with The Toasters, and is the only original member of the group.
Revelations Entertainment
Revelations Entertainment is an independent movie production company founded by actor Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary in 1996 with a mission to "reveal truth." The company is known for producing thought-provoking entertainment that has artistic integrity and soul.
Real Talk Entertainment
Real Talk is a privately held Los Angeles, California based hip hop record label that was started in 2003. It is led by CEO/President Derrick "Sac" Johnson and is focused primarily on recording and releasing new albums with gold and platinum selling rap and R&B artists.
Ripple Music
Ripple Music is a California-based independent record label founded in 2010 by Todd Severin and John Rancik. The company encompasses a record label, a music publishing business, a marketing, promotion and sales team, and a Distribution for independent heavy metal bands (Heavy Ripples Distro).[1]
Crest Animation Productions
The studio was founded by film director Richard Rich in 1986, who previously worked at Walt Disney Productions. In 1987, the studio was owned by Nest Family Entertainment to produce and distribute educational animated Christian and historical videos for children such as Animated Stories from the New Testament, Animated Hero Classics and Animated Stories from the Bible. In 1994, the two studios produced and released their first and most famous collaborated feature film called "The Swan Princess", based on the classic ballet Swan Lake, it was distributed for New Line Cinema. The film was rather successful on its first opening weekend. It also spawned two sequels, "" and "", neither of which did a good performance. In 1999, the two studios teamed up with Morgan Creek Productions and Rankin/Bass Productions to produce an animated adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" for Warner Bros.. However, the film bombed at the box office and received very negative reviews, which forced Nest Family Entertainment to sell off the studio to Crest Animation Studios in 2000 to form RichCrest Animation Studios. In 2001, the studio produced and released its last collaborated feature film with Nest Family Entertainment, "The Trumpet of the Swan", based on E.B. White's 1970 novel of the same name. It was distributed by TriStar Pictures and also performed poorly. RichCrest Animation Studios continued to produce Bible videos for Nest Family Entertainment until 2005. In February 2007, it was renamed to Crest Animation Productions and announced that it was "expanding its business to become a full-service animation studio specializing in the development and production of CGI-animated properties for theatrical, television, home entertainment and interactive distribution". The studio was finally shut down in 2013, after failing to make a profit. Many of its productions contracts were handed over to other studios for completion. For example, Norm of the North, a film that was in production at Crest before closing, along with future Alpha and Omega sequels were handed over to be finished at Splash Entertainment.
Lincoln Child
In 1987, after founding the company's mass-market horror division, Child left the St. Martin's Press to become a Systems Analyst at MetLife. Child's first novel (co-written with Preston), "Relic", was published in 1995. He left the company a few years later to write full-time.
Regal Entertainment
Regal Entertainment, Inc. (formerly and more commonly known as Regal Films) is a Philippine filmmaking and entertainment firm, based in Quezon City. It was founded by Lily Monteverde in 1962. It has produced movies of all genres. It is the oldest surviving movie studio in the Philippines
Klei Entertainment
Jamie Cheng and Alex Garden founded Klei Entertainment in July 2005. Prior to the formation of Klei, Cheng worked as a specialist AI programmer at Relic Entertainment, then owned by THQ. Cheng acquired seed funding for Klei by selling his THQ shares earned at Relic and getting a $10,000 loan from his brother. Klei had 11 employees in 2009 and as of May 2013 has grown to 35 employees.
Strike Entertainment
Strike Entertainment was an American production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham, Thomas Bliss and Eric Newman. Strike's films are distributed through Universal Studios as well as various other majors. Its first film produced was "The Rundown" starring The Rock. The company was dissolved in March 2013.
Klik Records
Klick Records was a music label based in London, England. It was founded in 1975 by former Trojan Records employees Joe Sinclair and Desmond Bryan, along with Larry Sevitt. Klik described itself as a "progressive Black Music Company, specialising in rebel-dread Reggae, modern Soul and Disco sounds."
Lincoln Enterprises
Following the of the original "" series, fan Bjo Trimble led efforts in 1967 to ensure that the show was renewed for a . Part of this effort was the creation of Star Trek Enterprises, in conjunction between Trimble and the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry. Through the help of Roddenberry, the company sold mail order "Star Trek" merchandise, which was obtained directly from the studio. Another claim to the foundation of the company was after a letter from science fiction writer Isaac Asimov to Roddenberry was mislaid among fan mail, and he received a photograph of the cast in response.
At the time, Roddenberry's marriage to his first wife, Eileen, was rapidly collapsing; the couple would soon divorce. In preparation for this eventuality, Roddenberry created Lincoln and put it in the name of Majel Barrett, who had been his mistress since she had played Number One in the show's original pilot episode, and later the recurring character of Nurse Christine Chapel, as well as providing the voice for the ship's computer. If the company was in her name, its assets and profits would not be community property under California law and thus beyond Eileen's reach in a divorce.
Radical Entertainment
Radical Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia and a subsidiary of Activision. The studio was founded in 1991 by industry veterans Rory Armes and Dave Davis, as well as newcomer Ian Wilkinson. It is best known for developing three games in the "Crash Bandicoot" franchise, and the "Prototype" series of games.
Lee Roy Mitchell
Lee Roy Mitchell founded Cinemark Inc., and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1987 to December 2006. Mr. Mitchell served as the President of Cinemark, Inc. from 1987 to March 1993 and Chief Executive Officer of Cinemark USA Inc., from 1987 to December 2006. From 1985 to 1987, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of a predecessor corporation. He has worked in the movie theater business almost 45 years. Within Cinemark, he has held the positions of Chairman, Vice Chairman, Executive Director, and Director at one or more of the Cinemark subsidiaries. He serves as a Director of Texas Capital Bank; National Association; and Dallas County Community College. He served as a Director of Texas Capital BancShares Inc. (TX), a holding of Texas Capital Bank N.A from June 1999 to May 17, 2011. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Theatre Owners since 1991. He has been a Director of National CineMedia, Inc. since October 2006 and National CineMedia LLC since July 2005. He served as a Director of Cinemark Inc. since 1987.
Kay B. Barrett
Later in 1931, David O. Selznick took over RKO. Selznick left RKO in 1933 to return to MGM, but in 1935 he found a financial backer, John Hay Whitney, who allowed him to set up his own studio, Selznick International Pictures. One of his first hires was Brown, still in the role of Eastern Story Editor, but later as "Eastern Representative" as Selznick expanded her role at the studio to that of his primary assistant. In addition to "Gone with the Wind", she brought Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" to the attention of Selznick. She also persuaded Ingrid Bergman to leave Stockholm for Hollywood for the Selznick production "Intermezzo: A Love Story"; signed Laurence Olivier to his first American contract for "Rebecca", and convinced Alfred Hitchcock to sign a seven-year contract with Selznick International so that he could direct "Rebecca". She also acquired the rights to Rose Franken's "Claudia: The Story of a Marriage" in 1939 and was involved in the screen tests for that story that led to Phylis Walker (later renamed Jennifer Jones by Brown and Selznick) being signed by the studio.
Cy Leslie
Seymour Marvin "Cy" Leslie (December 16, 1922 – January 6, 2008) was the founder of Pickwick Records, and the first president and founder of MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group. Pickwick Records aimed to make music more affordable, and carried such artists as Elvis Presley at various times. MGM Home Video was the first company to enter the home video business, which today has become the home entertainment industry including DVD and other sales. He began his career by founding Voco Records, producing record greeting cards, and later children's records. He was Jewish.
POW! Entertainment
POW! formed Stan Lee Global Entertainment as a joint venture in 2014 with the Hong Kong-based investment firm, Ricco Media Investments Limited. Ricco Media was purchased by Focus Media Network Limited on August 20, 2015. POW! also announced two Chinese projects in October 2015: "Realm", a superheroine movie and the first film from Stan Lee Global Entertainment, and "Arch Alien", a sci-fi movie.
Reel Life Productions
James H. Smith founded the label in 1988 with his younger brother, Esham, a rapper. According to Esham, by the time he had started to rap, Detroit did not have a prominent hip hop scene. Smith states that "Everybody was just imitating what everybody else was doing". His older brother, James, encouraged him to seriously pursue a career as a rapper because of the city's limited hip hop scene. At the age of 13, Esham released his debut album, "Boomin' Words from Hell", in 1989. In 1990, Reel Life Productions reissued his debut album with an alternate track listing and artwork. Esham found it difficult to develop a fanbase, because many wrote off the dark content of his lyrics and imagery as shock value, while hip hop fans did not connect to Esham's albums because of his heavy metal influences.
Rockstar Leeds
Möbius Entertainment was founded by Gordon Hall, Jason McGann, Dave Box and Ian J. Bowden in December 1997. The new studio's first project was "Alfred's Adventure", a Game Boy Color remake of "Alfred Chicken", released by SCi in June 2000, exclusively to the European market. The original "Alfred Chicken" from 1993 was developed by Twilight, which formerly also employed Möbius Entertainment founders McGann and Box. A 3D remake of "Alfred Chicken", this time eponymous to the original, was developed by Möbius Entertainment's Monkey King division and released by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in 2001. Another early project by Möbius Entertainment, "Titanium Angels", was announced by SCi in January 2000, alongside a game based on the 1960s television series "Thunderbird". In September 2000, SCi revealed that they anticipated the game to release for PlayStation 2 in Q3 2001. The game went silent afterwards, however, when questioned about it in October 2003, Möbius Entertainment stated that the game had been cancelled "some time ago".
Jack Melick
Melick remained briefly at KTLA once "The Orrin Tucker Show" went off the air, and played as a guest performer on the station's remaining music shows like "Bandstand Revue". During these remaining months at KTLA, he was approached by the booking division of MCA, Inc., one of the largest talent agencies at the time. Lured by MCA's belief they could make him the next big band star, Melick signed. They would be his first and only agent. The desired level of name recognition never quite materialized, but MCA would keep him busy in quality roles as a band leader or piano soloist for the next several years.
He began touring immediately and his first assignment was to organize a band from southern California for a 3-month engagement in Boston in the dead of winter. It was the beginning of real life in the band business. He called Los Angeles his home, but didn't spend much time there. Early bookings included recurring engagements in Los Angeles, Hollywood, Albuquerque, Phoenix, the High Desert of California, and Reno.
Relic Entertainment
On November 3, 2008, Relic announced a second "Company of Heroes" stand-alone expansion, "", which was released on April 9, 2009. This expansion introduced a new campaign, new units, weapons, game play features and three new game types.
Relic Hunter
In Region 4, Warner Home Video released season 1 on DVD in Australia in two volume sets in 2005. Madman Entertainment subsequently acquired the rights and released the second season on DVD in 2006 and the third season in 2010. A complete Season 1 box set was released by Madman on February 2, 2011.
Amit Khanna
In 2000 Khanna resigned from Plus Channel to join Reliance Entertainment where he served as Chairman for 15 years. Under his guidance, Reliance Entertainment became a major player in Hollywood. In May 2008 the company signed deals to produce and develop movies with prominent Hollywood actors such as Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Jim Carrey and Nicolas Cage. In September 2008 Reliance Entertainment formed a joint venture with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks SKG named "DreamWorks Studios" via an equity investment of $325 million. In August 2009 Reliance Entertainment signed an $825 million production and distribution deal with DreamWorks Studios.
Laika (company)
In the late 1990s, Will Vinton Studios, known for its stop-motion films and commercials, sought funds for more feature-length films and brought in outside investors, which included Nike, Inc. owner Phil Knight. In 1998, Knight made his initial investment and his son Travis started work at the studio as an animator. In 2002, Phil Knight acquired the financially struggling Will Vinton Studios to pursue feature-length productions. The following year, Henry Selick, director of "The Nightmare Before Christmas", joined the studio as a supervising director. In July 2005, the successor to Will Vinton Studios, Laika, was founded, and named after Laika, the dog sent to space by the Soviet Union in 1957.
It opened two divisions: Laika Entertainment for feature films and Laika/house for commercial work, such as advertisements and music videos. They also announced their first projects, the stop-motion film "Coraline" (based on the book of the same name), and the CGI animated film "Jack & Ben's Animated Adventure".
The studio laid off a significant portion of its staff in 2008, when its second planned feature, "Jack & Ben's Animated Adventure", was cancelled. The following year, the studio released its first feature film, "Coraline", which received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a nomination at the BAFTAs for Best Animated Feature, a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and eight nominations at the Annie Awards, winning three, for Best Music in an Animated Feature, and Best Character Design and Production Design in a Feature Production.
Ripple Music
Ripple Music, the record label, evolved out of the highly successful music site, The Ripple Effect, which Severin and Rancik launched in October 2007. Baring a tagline of "The Best Music You're Not Listening To," the Ripple Effect concentrated on in-depth, expertly written (often humorous) music reviews of new, lost classic, and unheralded artists. Early in their existence, Severin (a former radio DJ) and Rancik (former lead singer of San Diego punk/metal cross-over band, Blind Justice) concentrated on reviews from their own extensive record collections. But within a short period of time, the Ripple Effect had gained significant recognition within the industry and the format expanded to include new reviews, interviews, streaming songs, video uploads, legal downloads, and previews/sneak peeks. Within a year, The Ripple Effect was ranked as one of the top music sites in the world by GuitarWorld Magazine and several other music sites. Most recently, The Ripple Effect was awarded the Recommended Reading Medal by Jemmsite, the home of Ibanez Guitars.
Death of an Indie Label
Death of An Indie Label is a documentary & soundtrack about the independent record label Reel Life Productions, founded by James H. Smith and his younger brother, rapper Esham, in Detroit in 1990. The film, which was uploaded onto the label's YouTube channel, features appearances by James Smith, Esham and Mastamind. the soundtrack for the film features Seven the General and Poe Whosaine.
Relic Entertainment
On April 27, 2004, publisher THQ announced it was acquiring Relic for close to in an all-cash transaction, completed around early May, 2004.
Relic Hunter
It ran for three seasons in the U.S. between 1999 and 2002 after fulfilling its initial three-season, 66-episode contract, which was not renewed. In both Ireland and the United Kingdom, it aired on Sky1 and subsidiary channels, while in Canada, it aired on CityTV and Space, CTV's sister network A-Channel and Showcase. The series was shot in the Toronto area, and includes many familiar local landmarks among its locations. As of June 2018, the series airs on the Heroes and Icons cable network.
Relic Entertainment
Relic released "" on September 20, 2004, a real-time strategy game based on Games Workshop's popular "Warhammer 40,000" franchise. The game was a success, with many reviewers applauding its innovative resource management system and squad-based interface. As a series "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War" has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide as of January 2013.
Lew Cirne
In 2008, Cirne began focusing on the software as a service model while an entrepreneur in residence for Benchmark Capital and founded New Relic. New Relic is a SaaS provider of Web application performance management. New Relic's technology monitors Web and mobile applications in real-time that run in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.
Essence Engine
Essence Engine is a game engine developed by Relic Entertainment for video game "Company of Heroes".
Company of Heroes 2
THQ first announced the sequel to the acclaimed "Company of Heroes" in May 2012. THQ executive vice president of core games Danny Bilson noted that the publisher will continue working on "Company of Heroes 2" following its launch next year.
On December 19, 2012, publisher THQ filed for bankruptcy just after postponing the release date of the video game. The following month, on January 23, 2013, it was announced that THQ had sold Relic Entertainment to Sega for as part of an auction of the company's properties in result of the bankruptcy.
Entertainment UK
Entertainment UK was founded as Record Merchandisers Limited in 1966 by EMI Records to distribute music to non-specialist retailers. It later became a joint venture between a number of record companies. Woolworths became Entertainment UK's largest customer and in 1986 Record Merchandisers Limited was acquired by Kingfisher plc. In 1988, Record Merchandisers Limited changed its name to Entertainment UK (EUK).
Homeworld 2
Approximately a year after the release of "Homeworld 2", in August 2004, Relic Studios was purchased by THQ for approximately $10 million USD. As THQ was considered to be a competitor of Sierra Entertainment and Vivendi Universal, the prospect of a "Homeworld" sequel remained unlikely as Sierra was still the owner of the "Homeworld" Intellectual Property (IP) until September 2007 when it was announced that THQ was in talks with Vivendi to purchase the license "Homeworld" franchise. In November 2007, THQ finally confirmed that it had acquired the license for the "Homeworld" franchise but didn't confirm a sequel maintaining that it had no comments on future games from THQ based on "Homeworld". However, Eurogamer reported in November 2008 that Relic was "definitely looking" at creating "Homeworld 3". """" lead designer Jonny Ebbert commented that "We're really happy the IP has made its way home, and yeah, we're definitely looking at it. We'll see what happens in the future,". Ebbert also commented that there was always a chance that the sequel could be in development behind closed doors. The strongest evidence indicating that "Homeworld 3" is in development came from Relic's General Manager, Tarnie Williams indicating that "three or four" titles were in development while declining to elaborate further. In 2011 Relic confirmed that they would "like to develop Homeworld 3" but they did not confirm or deny working on it. In early 2013 THQ suffered financial difficulties and liquidated their assets due to bankruptcy; Relic was sold off to SEGA. The "Homeworld" IP was not part of this sale. Despite early speculation that SEGA would attempt to rescue the IP, ultimately the "Homeworld" IP was sold to Gearbox Software. Gearbox announced that their initial plans would be to bring the existing "Homeworld" games to multiple digital sales platforms, but also created a forum on their website specifically asking for fan ideas about how the series should proceed. Blackbird Interactive, a newer developer made up of many of the designers of the original "Homeworld", later offered their support of Gearbox's purchase of the IP.