Nelson Entertainment

Nelson Entertainment (also known as Nelson Films, Inc.) was an American film production and distribution company and a subsidiary of Disney Corporation of America. it was formerly a home video company.

History
Nelson Holdings International, Limited of Vancouver, British Columbia, Dominion of Canada, formed it's american film and home cideo company August 15, 1987 from what was formerly known as Embassy Home Entertainment after The Coca-Cola Company, then parent-company of Columbia Pictures (now TriStar Pictures) sold Embassy Home Entertainment in 1986 for $85 million to Nelson, owned by producer Barry Spikings and British retailer Richard Northcott.

It was a film and home media company which acquired film production company Galactic Films in 1985. It forged a deal with Coca-Cola for Columbia and Nelson to co-finance four films a year for three years (Orion Pictures also released Nelson films such as Prancer, the Bill & Ted films and co-distributed the 1990 film version of Hamlet with Warner Bros., with Carolco handling foreign sales for that movie.).

In 1991, Nelson made a distribution deal with New Line Cinema and their films, as well as those by Embassy Films Associates and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, were released by New Line Home Video (whose releases were distributed by FOX/Columbia Pictures Home Video at the time). On December 9, New Line acquired Nelson (which by then was renamed "Sultan Entertainment") and Nelson was later folded. The Nelson catalog was sold to Crédit Lyonnais Bank and later to PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (which it's pre-1966 library are now owned by DHX Media in 2017 except Nelson's films).

As for Nelson Holdings International, it was renamed to "JPY Holdings" in 1994. In 1998, Seagram and Sons acquired PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and in January 1999, The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company acquired the pre-March 31, 1996 PolyGram library (including all of PolyGram's back library) from Universal Studios for $250 million and the library was merged into the library of MGM's then-recently acquired Orion Pictures unit. (as mentioned above, Orion released select films produced by Nelson). Currently, most of the Nelson films are owned by MGM, although television rights to some films are owned by Paramount Pictures due to a previous deal Nelson made with Viacom. North American broadcast rights are currently held by Trifecta Entertainment & Media under license from Paramount.

in 2018, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures revived Nelson Enterainment to distribute new nelson movies.