Rysher Entertainment: Difference between revisions

Rysher Entertainment was founded by former Warner Bros. syndication executive Keith Samples in 1991 as a television syndication company, expanding into TV and feature film production. Cox Enterprises bought Rysher for $15 million in 1993. Rysher was shut down in 1999 by Cox, distribution rights to the company's library was acquired by Paramount Television (now "CBS Television Studios" and "CBS Television Distribution") the ownership of the library was later acquired by 2929 Entertainment in 2001 and by Qualia Capital on March 29, 2006. Most of the company's film library is currently owned by Paramount Pictures with the following exceptions: ''The Opposite of Sex'' (Sony Pictures Entertainment/Sony Pictures Classics), ''It Takes Two'' (Warner Bros. Entertainment), ''Big Night'', ''Foxfire'', and ''Hard Eight'' (Samuel Goldwyn Films, formally The Samuel Goldwyn Company). As for the television library, it is currently owned by CBS Corporation and distributed by CBS Television Distribution, while the ''Saved by the Bell'' franchise and ''California Dreams'' are currently owned by NBCUniversal Television Distributionwhile CBS Studios International has international rights to Saved by the Bell.

===1st Logo (September 14, 1991-May 22, 1993)===

<u>Availability:</u> Uncommon. Seen on early 90s syndicated prints, ''Saved By the Bell'' reruns, which are seen on Me-TV and the DVD box sets. Other local syndicated reruns of ''Saved By the Bell'' now have the NBCUniversal logo instead of this one. The distribution variant is very rare, as new prints of Highlander do not feature this logo.

===2nd Logo (May 22, 1993-February 23, 2003)===

*This logo was redone for movies. The notable differences are: the words are now done in CGI and are in copper, the city and sky look nicer, the hills have been changed to mountains and the sky is more blueish (it was purple on the standard version). A short version was used on TV around 1996.