Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, a division of
Echo Bridge Entertainment, was founded in 1995 as Platinum Disc Corporation, initially distributed DVDs of low-budget and
public domain films. It was named and had its logo inspired from the real
Echo Bridge in
Newton,
Massachusetts. In February 2004, Echo Bridge Entertainment was founded at the
American Film Market, with the acquisition of the libraries of
CineTel Films and
PM Entertainment. In September 2004, Echo Bridge announced that it would acquire the Green Communications library. In July 2005, Platinum Disc Corporation and Echo Bridge Entertainment merged to form Echo Bridge Home Entertainment. In April 2008, Echo Bridge acquired the international operations, including television distribution rights to
Alliance Atlantis library from
Goldman Sachs, with the exception of the
CSI franchise, which was retained by
CBS. In 2011, Echo Bridge Entertainment and
Miramax owner
Filmyard Holdings made a distribution deal in which Echo Bridge would release 251 films from the Miramax catalog. The other 550 films from Miramax's catalog went to
Lionsgate and
StudioCanal as Filmyard had a similar distribution deal with them. On March 17, 2014, after Echo Bridge lost the distribution rights to the Miramax titles, the Miramax releases all went out of print and any mention of them was removed from their website. Lionsgate later expanded their deal with Miramax to include the 251 films previously released by Echo Bridge until 2020, when
Paramount Home Entertainment (which parent company acquired a 49% stake of Miramax in 2019) extended their own deal with Miramax to include those 251 films. In 2014, Echo Bridge sold its family library to
DHX Media (now known as WildBrain). In January 2017, filmmaker and producer
Steven Paul purchased the non-family assets of Echo Bridge, which in turn renamed as
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp, later becoming dormant and then folded into SP Distribution in 2021, with the distribution rights to the Echo Bridge/PM/Alliance Atlantis library in turn acquired by the
New York City-based distributor and streaming service
FilmRise for digital distribution. By 2025, Lionsgate, by now based in
Santa Monica, California, had acquired the FilmRise library, including the Echo Bridge library. == Filmography ==