Mount Temple Pictures

Mount Temple Pictures was a Canadian film company founded in 1937 by Edgar G. Ulmer. it formerly distributes all of Walt Disney Productions and Paramount Pictures films in Canada. today, it produces it's own Canadian movies.

History
in 1937, the company was established by Edgar G. Ulmer and is a distribution company to make deals with Disney and Paramount. soon before distributing starts, it's headquarters was opened on 111 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Camada.

between 1939 and 1945, the company serves to fight off the Nazi Studio. in 1945, Mount Temple banned the Nazi Studio and started distributing it's own movies.

Mount Temple distributed all Embassy Pictures films from 1950 to 1967, when New Line Cinema makes a deal with Mount Temple. in 1972, Mount Temple Pictures released Fritz the Cat in Canada. Mount Temple also released Heavy Traffic in Canada in 1973. Ralph Bakshi also decided cancel the deal with Mount Temple Pictures.

due to Victory Pictures' sale to Cinépix Film Properties, Mount Temple Pictures ended the deal with New Line and restarted distributing it's own movies in 1980. the first Canadian home video company called HGV Video Productions took away canadian distribution rights to Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic from Mount Temple.

the reason that HGV won is that Mount Temple stole Ralph Bakshi's first two movies. 5 days later, Mount Temple closed it's longtime headquarters on 111 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

in 1981, the company established it's new headquarters on 1335 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia. it has many movies produced.

it celebrated the 50th Anniversarry in 1987 and a year later, the company launched Mount Temple Television to produce TV Shows.

in 1992, the company launch it's arthouse movie division called Eyeball Company to distribute arthouse films, but all failures of it's arthouse films caused Mount Temple Pictures to sell Eyeball Company to 20th Century Fox in 1997.

in 2001, Mount Temple Pictures was bought by the Empire Company Limited and is beable to produce 45 films a year. in 2009, DreamWorks Animation made a 4-year deal with Mount Temple Pictures, were lasted until 2013 when distribution was sold to Maple Pictures.

in 2012, the company celebrated the 75th Anniversary. it became one of the surviving studios of Canada.