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PorchLight Entertainment
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PorchLight Entertainment, Inc. was an American animation and live-action production company founded in 1995 by Bruce D. Johnson and William T. Baumann. It focused on the development & production of television series in both live action and animation formats, as well as content for film and home video.

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PorchLight Entertainment began operations on February 20, 1995. The company was founded by Bruce D. Johnson, a former employee of Hanna-Barbera, and former Taft Broadcasting employee William T. Baumann. One of its major projects was acquiring the rights to adapt Adventures from the Book of Virtues for television.[1] The project was later picked up by PBS, which ordered it to series.[2]

In 1997, while on the virtue of its own successful programming, it would spend $10 million on expanding its own programming activity and planning on to do made-for-TV movies.[3] In 1998, it launched a motion picture division, PorchLight Pictures, which specialized on having motion picture distribution.[4]

In 2000, it bought the international film, TV and distribution rights to the motion picture, Heartwood.[5] In 2001, it signed a deal with Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment to distribute titles based on Jay Jay the Jet Plane.[6] In 2004, it was acquired by their senior management and Beringea through Global Rights II, through its parent company, PorchLight Worldwide, Inc.[7]

In 2011, Bruce D. Johnson, one of PorchLight's co-founders, started Foxfield Entertainment.[8]

In 2018, PorchLight Entertainment was acquired by Trilogy Animation Group.[9]

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