Starz

Starz Distribution (previously IDT Entertainment and Starz Media) is the motion picture, animation, television, and home video operating unit of Lionsgate. Starz Distribution develops, produces, and acquires original programming content (Starz and AMC), feature films (Anchor Bay Films), anime (Manga Entertainment) and other filmed entertainment. Distribution methods include DVD, digital formats and traditional television.

It was founded in 1991 in Burbank as Encore Media Group. They release films and television shows, such as Eloise, the "Space Chimps" series,  Everyone's Hero, Lower Learning anime from Manga Entertainment, The Happy Elf, and ''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!''. They also aired the fourth season of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood.

They are the current owners of Anchor Bay Entertainment, which distributed Thomas DVDs throughout the 2000s and former owners of Arc Productions. Their parent company, Lionsgate has distributed Thomas DVDs since around the early 2010s.

The movie Thomas and the Magic Railroad is also set to air on Starz's Starz Encore Family channel on Christmas 2022, and on Starz Kids and Family on January 3rd 2023.

Trivia

 * On the James Goes Buzz Buzz DVD, it has a plastering of the Anchor Bay Entertainment.

External link

 * Official Website