Harmony Gold USA
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| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Television programs |
| Founded | Los Angeles, California (1983) |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Key people |
Frank Agrama, Chairman & CEO Alan Letz, Executive VP Melissa Wohl, Vice president Tommy Yune, Creative Director |
| Products | Motion pictures, Television programs, Miniseries, Animation, Real estate |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Net income | Unknown |
| Employees | Unknown |
| Website | harmonygold.com |
Harmony Gold is a television production and distribution company established in 1983. It is best known as the “creator” and main distributor of the anime series Robotech.[1] It also partially dubbed the Dragon Ball series in the late 1980s.
Harmony Gold also partly funded the controversial 1986 Shaka Zulu TV series in South Africa in spite of economic sanctions. After the cancellation of Robotech II: The Sentinels, a number of the staff were recruited to work at Saban Entertainment. The company’s public profile then fell into a near-dormant state for much of the 1990s, and its flagship Robotech franchise also fell into a state of neglect. Harmony Gold appears to have rebounded on the DVD medium with the success of its Robotech series, released in partnership with ADV Films in the US, and Manga Entertainment in the UK.
The company also has interests in real estate in the Southern California area, as well as a Los Angeles screening room.
Titles
Films
- Abe & Bruno (2005)
- American Strays (1996)
- Ball & Chain (2003)
- Crazy Jones (2001)
- Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
- Death to the Supermodels (2004)
- Dirt (2001)
- Faster (2003)
- Going Down (2003)
- The Lost World (1992)
- Return to the Lost World (1993)
- Queen Kong (1976)
- Siblings (2004)
- Welcome to the Neighborhood (2002)
Miniseries
- Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
- Heidi (1993)
- King of the Olympics (1988)
- The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1988)
- Shaka Zulu (1986)
- Sherlock Holmes & The Leading Lady (1990)
- Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1991)
Flagship Animation
- Robotech (1984) (an amalgamation of three different anime series from Tatsunoko Productions)
- Codename: Robotech (1984) (an extended pilot of the 1985 series)
- Robotech: The Movie (1986)
- Robotech II: The Sentinels (1987)
- Robotech 3000 (2000)
- Robotech: Remastered (2003-2004) (remastered and extended version of the 1985 series)
- Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006)
Other Animation
- The Brave Frog (1985)
- Captain Future (1987)
- Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985) (an amalgamation of two different anime series from Toei Animation)
- Captain Harlock (1978-1982)
- Queen Millennia (1981-1982)
- Casshan: Robot Hunter (1994)
- Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned (1983)
- Dragon Ball (1989?) (the first five episodes and movies 1 and 3)
- Dr. Slump (1984?) (pilot of the first episode)
- Flower Angel (1986)
- Frankenstein (1983)
- Gatchaman (1994)
- Goldwing (1980)
- Lensman: Power of the Lens (1987)
- Lensman: Secret of the Lens (1988)
- Little Women's Christmas Story (1986)
- Lococomotion (aka. Tangoo & Ullashong by KBS / Seoul-Movie Co., Ltd )(2001)
- Magical Princess Gigi (1986) (aka. Gigi and the Fountain of Youth)
- Once Upon a Time (AKA Windaria) (1986)
- Seven Seas: The Legend of Blue (200?)
- Thumbelina (Sekai Meisaku Douwa: Oyayubi Hime) (the 1978 Toei Animation feature film, not the 1992 Enoki Films TV series)
- The World of the Talisman (aka. Planetbusters, Birth) (1987)
- The Call of the Wild (Toei Animation, dubbed 1982 Japanese production)
- Timefighters In the Land of Fantasy (1987)
Documentary Series & Specials
- Animals of Africa (1987)
- Faster (2003)
- The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper (1988)
- Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2004)
- Walking After Midnight (1999)
Series
- Cobra (1993–1994)
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954, remastered 1999)
Legal issues
Harmony Gold issued cease and desist orders against sites displaying images and trailers from the video game MechWarrior Online.[2] The company claims that the images portray ’mechs that they own the rights to, according to a legal settlement from 1996.[3]
In addition, Harmony Gold’s license for Macross came from Tatsunoko Production, but Japanese courts ruled that it was Studio Nue (creators of the series) that controls the Macross intellectual property. The license Tatsunoko was given was for international distribution outside Japan only, and does not allow them to control the intellectual property.[citation needed]
Harmony Gold claims in Federal Court that Hasbro's SDCC 2013 exclusive set "G.I. Joe vs Transformers The Epic Conclusion" violates their copyright license on the animated Japanese Macross TV series (1982-84).[4]
External links
- HarmonyGold.com—official website.
- Harmony Gold USA at the Internet Movie Database
References
- ↑ "Macek Training". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
- ↑ Luke Plunkett (2009). "Mechwarrior 5 Runs Into Legal Trouble". Kotaku. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
- ↑ UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION (1996). "Harmony Gold USA vs FASA". Legal Filing. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
- ↑ "More Than Meets the Eye". Courthouse News Service.
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