anchor bay entertainment is an american home entertainment and production company founded in 1985. it is a division of starz media which is a unit of and a joint venture with starz inc. which owns 75%. the weinstein company owns 25%. it was owned by idt entertainment until 2006 when idt was purchased by starz media. anchor bay markets and sells feature movies, television series, television specials and short films to consumers worldwide. in 2004, anchor bay agreed to have its movies distributed by 20th century fox home entertainment and renewed their deal in 2011.