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Cinema Management Group

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Cinema Management Group
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Cinema Management Group was an American company based in Beverly Hills, California that acquires licenses and distributes feature films, animations, and documentaries. The company is noted for its catalog of internationally produced animated features that is sold to the world markets.

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The company was founded in 2003 by Edward Noeltner.[1] In 2004 the company acquired the rights for the CGI animated film Hoodwinked!: The True Story of Red Riding Hood. CMG expanded its genre distribution with the indie film Reeker and the sequel No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker. CMG represented Moriah Films.[2] Since 2004, CMG-licensed animated features have grossed over $400 million at the worldwide box office.[3]

CMG distributed the animated films Adventures in Zambezia, Hoodwinked!, Khumba, The Legend of Sarila, Ratchet & Clank, Loving Vincent, and Saving Santa over the past two decades.[1]

CMG facilitated the joint production of the film Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon between the animation houses of Peru and the Netherlands. The company distributed the film to over half the world's cinema markets, and eventually released it worldwide in 2021.[4] Other films released in the 2020s decade include Seal Team by Triggerfish Animation Studios; Panda Bear in Africa by Katuni Animation, A. Film Production, Cool Beans, Comet Filmand Le Pacte; Kayara by Tunche Films; The Canterville Ghost by Toonz Animation and Melmoth Productions; and Noah's Ark by Globo Filmes, Gullane, NIP, Symbiosys Technologies and VideoFilmes.[1]

On January 6, 2025, Cinema Management Group filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.[5]

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Executives

Edward Noeltner is the founder of Cinema Management Group. He has served as the President of Senator Films International in Berlin, Head of Television at Pandora Cinema in Paris, Senior Vice President of International Distribution at AB Svensk Filmindustri[6] in Stockholm/Paris, and Senior Vice President of Sales and Distribution at Miramax International[7] in New York. Noeltner has overseen the international sales and distribution of Academy Award-winning films[8] such as Chicago, The Hours, Frida, Shine, Kolya, Under The Sun, and Tango.

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Expansion

In 2008, film producer Gray Frederickson (The Godfather) brokered the sale of CMG shares to The Cleveland Family Trust, managed by Brian and Jason Cleveland, to establish the CMG Acquisitions Fund.[9]

Films distributed

Animated films

Feature films

Documentary films

Moriah films

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