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Hycam Entertainment

Hycam Entertainment LLC

Company type	Private
Industry	Motion picture/television entertainment
Founded	January 1962 (established February 1964 with its first film, Ville des Coupes)
Founder	Louis Harlgen
Headquarters	Byahaut/Trouvaille , Rogatia
Area served	CARICOM region
Key people	Vito Anderson (President) Kayle Laponche (Vice-President) Polly Dallou (Chairperson)
Products	Films DVDs Blu-Ray Discs
Services	Film/television production and distribution, sales rights/acquisitions, cable television (through HyCable)
Revenue	US$188 million (2007)
Net income	US$24 million (2007)
Owner	Independently owned (Redlake Inc., rights holder to the original name, has a perpetual 10% stake)
Number of employees	2,243 (2007)
Website	hycam-ent.com

Hycam Entertainment LLC is an independent film and television company with head offices in Byahaut and Trouvaille, Rogatia. It was founded in the early 1960s by Louis Harlgen, the founder and original owner of Trouvaille's Antilles Cinema.

Since 1964's Ville des Coupes, the company has been responsible for producing and releasing all of Rogatia's feature film output, which consists of 33 projects as of 2009.

In the West Indies, Hycam is best known as a distributor of independent and foreign fare, both on television and the big screen. Locally, its competitors are Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, UIP Rogatia, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (along with recently-formed subsidiary Miramax Releasing), and Sony Pictures.

From 1972 until 1994, Hycam was Rogatia's sole distributor of films and TV shows from Walt Disney Productions (later Walt Disney Pictures and Television) and Buena Vista Distribution.

The company was Rogatia's first to break into the home video market (in February 1982), and also invested in SelectaVision and Laserdisc titles early on. By April 2002, it phased out the VHS format in favour of rapidly-expanding DVD sales. It released its first Blu-Ray title, a newly-remastered version of Ville des Coupes, on February 10, 2009.

According to official company pamphlets, the name is derived from "Hi, Camille!", which founder Harlgen always used to say to his aunt, a grocery store clerk, as a child.

Selected productions

• Ville des Coupes (1964)
• Young Girl (1970)
• The Grand Delight (1972)
• Sunny (1978)
• Zuma (1982)
• Covers (1986)
• Dreamtime (1987)
• Three Cheers for Sweet Glory! (1988)
• Esplanade (1991)
• Seven Eight Nine Ten (2000)
• Cool Schooled (2005)
• Timeframe (2008)
• Luko (2008)
• Hollyann (2009)
• A38 (2010)
• Iconic/Ironic (2011)

TJE Studios

TJE Studios Ltd.

Company type	Private
Industry	Traditional and computer animation / Live-action production / Subtitling
Founded	March 1972
Founder	Delvin Trindell Andrew Joulallison Roger Elissett
Headquarters	Weymouth , Rogatia
Area served	CARICOM region
Products	Television specials and commercials Theatrical and video subtitles Music videos (formerly CineTunes) Feature and experimental animation
Revenue	US$79 million (2007)
Owner	Independently owned
Number of employees	1,600 (2008)
Website	tje-studios.com

TJE Studios is an animation, TV production and visual effects company located in Weymouth, Rogatia. Its origins go back as far as 1964, when seven of the original core members did a ten-second logo bumper for the newly-established ZHCP-TV.

TJE is most notable for its library of over 2,500 music videos (since early 1976), and its latter-day involvement in the production of Henrick Marhamm's 2008 animated blockbuster Luko.

During the early 2000s, seven hundred TJE crew members worked on a retouched version of Happy, the Littlest Bunny, a GoodTimes/Jetlag production from 1994. A workprint version was completed in May 2004, and shown at a theatre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, financial problems with GoodTimes (the original rights holder), and its acquisition by Gaiam shortly after going bankrupt, caused the project to be shelved until much recently. Because of this, the film (now retitled Happy: A Rabbit on the Run) will be released across the Caribbean by Gaiam on May 13, 2011.

Timeline of film distributors in Rogatia

From	To	Distributor	Releases from	Notes
1943	1980	Rank Organisation	Various studios Universal Pictures (until 1974) 20th Century Fox (until 1980)	Held a monopoly in Rogatia's film market until British Lion's arrival. Formerly General Film Distributors of Rogatia until 1948, then J. Arthur Rank (Rogatia) Ltd. from 1948 to 1970.
1960	1974	British Lion	Various studios	Served mainly as Rank's competitor until closure.
1964	present	Hycam Entertainment	Many independent and foreign outfits, including (but not limited to) Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment Buena Vista Distribution (including Walt Disney Productions [later Walt Disney Pictures in 1986], Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures) (1972-1994)	See above section for description.
1973	1991	Warner-Columbia Film/Warner-Columbia (Rogatia) Ltd.	Warner Bros. Columbia Pictures Orion Pictures (1978-1984)	Joint venture between Warner Bros. and Columbia to handle their films overseas.
1974	1991	Cinema International Corporation (CIC)	Universal Studios Paramount Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists Orion Pictures (1985-1991) The Samuel Goldwyn Company (1987-1991) TriStar Pictures (1984-1991)	Joint venture of Universal, Paramount and (later) MGM to distribute their product outside the U.S. The original CIC disbanded in 1981 and became United International Pictures (UIP), after MGM's purchase of United Artists.
1980	present	20th Century Fox	20th Century Fox Fox Searchlight MGM (since 2004) United Artists (since 2004)	Began with Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back; previously, Rank handled this studio's releases in Rogatia.
1981	1998	Hoyts Releasing (Rogatia) Ltd.	Atlantic Releasing New World Pictures New Line Cinema (until 1996) Various foreign (and several Australian) outlets; a considerable amount of its output was animated and family fare	Began operations in 1975 (as a cinema operator); local branch of the Australian film group. Its first release as a distributor was the English-dubbed version of Once Upon a Time (Maria d'Oro und Bello Blue).
1991	present	United International Pictures (UIP) Rogatia	Universal Paramount DreamWorks SKG Samuel Goldwyn StudioCanal MGM/UA (until 2003)	Successor to CIC.
1991	present	Warner Bros./Warner Rogatia	Warner Bros. New Line Cinema (since 1996) Columbia Pictures (until 1994) TriStar Pictures (until 1994)	Successor to Warner-Columbia's operations.
1994	2004	Columbia-TriStar Rogatia	Columbia Pictures TriStar Pictures Sony Pictures Classics
1994	2008	Buena Vista International	Walt Disney Pictures Touchstone Pictures Hollywood Pictures Miramax Films	Hycam previously handled this company's releases in Rogatia.
2004	present	Sony Pictures Rogatia	Columbia Pictures TriStar Pictures Sony Pictures Classics	Successor to Columbia-TriStar; first release under this moniker was Spider-Man 2 (2004).
2007	present	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	Disney's family label	Successor to Buena Vista, whose brand name is no longer used in Rogatia. Its first release was 2007's Enchanted.
2008	present	Miramax Releasing	Miramax Films (U.S. releases) Overseas outlets of Disney Studios	Direct successor to Buena Vista, whose last Rogatian release was The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Its first release under the present moniker was Happy-Go-Lucky.
2009	present	VistaFilm	Touchstone Pictures Hollywood Pictures	Another Buena Vista successor, this was formed in May 2009 to fill the void WDS and Miramax have left behind. Its first release was The Proposal (on August 21, 2009); 2010's When in Rome will be next. Beginning with Confessions of a Shopaholic, the branch has revived the Vista Series label for regional DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Touchstone, Hollywood, ABC Studios and some Dimension material.
2009	present	Gaiam Antilles	U.S. acquisition GoodTimes Entertainment Feature Films for Families PannóniaFilm Apparition (select titles) Various other companies	Initially set up in March 2008 to take advantage of the island rights to GoodTimes' former library. Will launch in late 2009 with the Spanish animated feature Cher Ami...¡y yo! (locally titled Cher Ami: Hero of the Skies) and the DLP release of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie. Another film on their slate, TJE's Happy: A Rabbit on the Run, is scheduled for May 2011. Starting in November 2009, Gaiam's local DVD branch will distribute titles from the networks of Discovery Communications, amid the American unit's new three-year deal with that company. [1]