CCI Entertainment

CCI Entertainment was formed on February 13, 2002, after Canadian media companies Cambium Entertainment and Catalyst Entertainment merged. CCI inherited Catalyst's alliance and partnership with Gullane Entertainment (previously known as The Britt Allcroft Company) that began in 1994, with the company holding a 32% non-voting, 19% voting interest in the newly enlarged business, and would continue to operate as Gullane's Canadian affiliate and first-look distributor for any CCI programme or film. It also allowed the expansion of Gullane's international catalogue to include Cambium's programmes. After Gullane announced to be purchased by HIT Entertainment in July 2002, however, the future relationship between the two companies remained uncertain. After the deal closed in October, CCI spent a few months under HIT until the company announced the end of their partnership with them in April 2003, purchasing out HIT's shares and half of Gullane's inherited catalogue, which were placed under the company's new distribution arm CCI Releasing. In 2007, CCI began preparations to open up an office in Los Angeles, California. In July 2012, the company acquired worldwide distribution rights to six films from Leader Film Company's catalogue. In April 2013, CCI agreed with 9 Story Entertainment to handle the marketing and distribution of CCI Kids' library and acquire the underlying rights to all of CCI's family and children's programmes. The deal also allowed for 9 Story to enter into a first-look distribution deal for any new children's or family production produced by CCI. The deal was closed three months later on July 24. In March 2014, CCI entered into a distribution partnership with MarVista Entertainment to handle co-distribution rights to CCI's catalogue. CCI changed their international distributor to the Fremantle Corporation in February 2015. ==Programming==