ABN Films

History Of ABN Films

In July of 1971 ABN CEO Charlie Brooks Decided To Launch A Feature Film Division In Burbank,CA That Would Go On To Direct Their Own Movies With A Few Disrubutiors So On May,12th 1974 ABN Feature Films As It Was Called Officially Founded In Burbank,CA To Make More Movies Their First Film To Be Released Was "The Showcase" The First Film Did Receive Some Critical Acclaim It Was Panned By Some Critics Calling It "A Waste Of Time" As For The Box Office The Film Only Grossed $14 Million Dollars Worldwide $7 Million Dollars Demostically Making It As A Box Office Flop Until 1985 When The Film Had Re-Release Years Later With It's Box Office Performance Now Grossing Over To $30 Million Dollars Worldwide $19 Million Dollars Demostically On A $5 Million Dollar Budget.

The Early Troubles For The Film Division

In 1975 Some Of Their Movies Weren't Making Any Profit For The Company Itself With The Companies Recent Box Office Bomb "The Scare Shadow" Only Making Then $2 Million Dollars Worldwide And $700,000 Dollars Demostically On A Weak $400,000 Budget. The Channel's CEO Was About To Shutdown The Division With It's Recent Box Office Failures However The Division's President "Tim Brooks" Who Was The Chairman Completey Ignored That And Wanted To Make More Feature Films For The Film Division Even If They Were Still Losing Money So 1978 The Company Decided To Release Package Films From Every Country To Release It In The US As Well The Company Releasing Made For TV Movies By 1979 If That Will Help The Divisions Future And Growth.

The Success Of The TV Movies

By 1980 The Company Was Now Making Money With The Success Of Their First TV Movie Titled "The Killer Man" Was A Huge Hit On TV Earning More Than Over 10,000,000 Viewers During Its TV Premiere Giving The Company More Than Over $12 Million Dollars Of Revenue On A Straning $3 Million Dollar Budget By 1982 The Second Biggest Hit TV Movie "The Christmas Wish" Earned A Total Amount Of 24 Million Viewers Tuning In During Its Airing By 1985 The Company Was Turning In Profit As The Revenue Was Earning More Than Over $40 Million Dollars Of Revenue By 1986 However In 1987 Their Grand Hit TV Movie "The Miracle" Found Grand Success On TV Earning More Than Over 50 Million Viewers Tuning In By 1990 The Company Was Now Earning More Than Over $200 Million Dollars Of Profit With The Success Of These TV Movies By The 1980s,1990s And The 2000s Until The 2010s When They Stop Producing TV Movies As It Wasn't Making Money For The Channel Nor The Executives.

The Success Of Their Package Films

By 1979 The First Package Film Title "Being Free" Was Commercial Hit Earning More Than Over $30 Million Dollars Worldwide $17 Million Dollars Demostically By 1983 The Second Big Hit Package Film Was "Living Around The World" By Earning More Than Over $70 Million Dollars At The Box Office By 1986 The Third Package Film Turn Out To Become A Commercial Hit As There Third One "A Boys Miracle" Turn Out To Become A Commercial Success By Earning More Than Over $110 Million Dollars Worldwide And $90 Million Dollars Demostically The Critics Also Gave It Some Pretty Good Reviews Calling "One Of If Not The Best Looking Film To Be Put On The Big Screen." By 1989 Their Last Package Film Was Release Called "The Princess Bride" The Film Did Solid In The Box Office By Grossing More Than Over $130 Million Dollars Worldwide $106 Million Dollars Demostically Alone.

The Success Of Their Theatrical Films

By 1991 The First Big Hit Theatrical Movie Was "The Light" The Film Ended Doing Pretty Well In The Box Office By Grossing More Than Over $310 Million Dollars Worldwide $180 Million Dollars Demostically By 1995 Their Next Feature Film Was "Claw" The Film Ended Great In The Box Office By Grossing More Than Over $530 Million Dollars Worldwide And $308 Million Dollars Demostically The Critics Gave Some Positive Reviews Calling It As "One If Not The Best Movies So Far But Still Remains As A Classic To Watch!" By 1997 The Company Another Big Hit Was "The Shadows" The Film Was Receive Very Well And Grossed Over $800 Million Dollars At The Box Office Making The Number One Film Of That Year. By 1999 The Company Itself Would Been Spin-off to Its Own Media Company That Year Even With A New CEO Stepping In And Changing The Brand's Name From "ABN Feature Films" To Now As "ABN Films" And Its Public Company Name Now Called As "ABN Films Studios Inc." Also That Same Year They Released A Another Hit Movie Titled "Planes In The Sky" The Film Was Recevied Very Well Critics And Audiences Saying "If Not One The Best Masterpieces So Far" As For The Box Office And Grossed More Than Over $400 Million Dollars Performing Way Lesser Than Their Other Movies Tho The Film Would Get Re-Released In Summer Of 2000 Being 3D And Also Being Shown In IMAX As For It 2000 Re-Release The Film Ended Up Grossing More Than Over $780 Million Dollars Worldwide And $500 Million Dollars Demostically Alone.

By 2001 The Company Would Acquired Other Film Studios Like Hypermotion Films,UBC Motion Pictures,Great Films,And SFX Motion Pictures By 2003 The Company Would Release Their 3D/Live-Action Blend Movie Title "Forest Kingdom" The Film Got Some Good Reviews By Some Critics Calling As "One Of ABN's Most Weaker Films It Does Deserve The Number One Spot For The 3D Visuals." As For The Box Office The Film Ended Up Grossing More Than Over $530 Million Dollars Worldwide And $300 Million Dollars Demostically Alone. By 2006 The Company Would Release Their Another Hit Movie Titled "Figures" The Film Was Received Well By Critics Calling One Of The Best Movies So Far For Its Release In The Box Office It Ended Up Grossing More Than Over $903 Million Dollars Worldwide And $787 Million Dollars Demostically Making As The Highest-Grossing Movie Ever By 2006. By 2009 The Company Released Their First Ever Sequel Film Titled "Claw 2" The Film Itself Would Be Release June 2009 Right Next To Other Films Release During That Time The Film Ended Up Receving Some Praise Calling It "It's Not's As Good From The Original Film Itself But It's Still Better" As For The Box Office The Film Ended Up Grossing More Than Over $1.3 Billion Dollars Worldwide On A $180 Million Dollar Budget Making It The Highest Grossing Film By June Of That Year Until It Got Surpassed By Avatar During That Year However By 2011 The Next Sequel That They Released Was "Shadows 2: The Next Shadows" The Film Was Mixed By Critics Calling It "Its Not As Good As From The Original Material From The First Movie" As For The Box Office The Film Ended Up Grossing More Than Over $670 Million Dollars Worldwide And $400 Million Dollars Demostically Alone. By 2012 The Released A Theatrical Remake Of The TV Movie "The Killer Man" Why The Film Was Receviely Mixed By Critics And Audiences The Movie Ended Performing Great In The Box Office By Grossing More Than Over $802 Million Dollars Worldwide And $530 Million Dollars Demostically Alone With The Movies Success It Warn It A Sequel By 2013 Which Ended Performing Alright In The Box Office By Grossing More Than Over $630 Million Dollars Worldwide And $320 Million Dollars Demostically Alone. By 2015 They Released A Another Sequel Titled "Forest Kingdom 2" Why The Film Was Most Mixed By Critics Yet Again The Film Did Solid In The Box Office By Grossing More Than Over $780 Million Dollars Worldwide And $541 Million Dollars Demostically Alone Become The 7th Highest-Grossing Film Of That Year. In 2017 They Release A New Movie Titled "Land Of Waves" Why The Film Was Fairly Well Amongs Critics And Audiences The Film Ended Doing Way Bigger By Grossing More Than Over $1.2 Billion Dollars Worldwide And $670 Million Dollars Demostically Alone. By 2018 The Company Was Quickly Purchase By ABN International Media Inc. For $300 Million Dollars That Year Until That The Company Was Quickly Bought By ABN Entertainment For $670 Million Dollars By Fall 2018 By 2019 The Company Released Their Another Hit Movie Titled "Parts In A Row" The Film Was Recieve Well Mostly By Critics And Audiences Alone As For The Box Office It Only Made More Than $451 Million Dollars Worldwide And $280 Million Dollars Demostically. By Fall 2019 They Also A Sequel To "The Light" Titled "The Light 2: Final Chapter" It Was Recevied Well By Critics And Audiences A Like As For The Box Office It Manage To Grossed More Than Over $500 Million Dollars Worldwide And $207 Million Dollars Demostically. In 2020 They Release A New Film Titled "The Spirits" The Film Was Most Mixed By Critics However But The Film Was Release On Streaming Services And When Was Release In Theaters That Year And Only Grossed $108 Million Dollars Worldwide And $87 Million Dollars Demostically As Well The Film However Was A Failure Due To COVID-19 Pandemic Starting To Rise However That Year. As Of 2021 Their Next Film That Is Planned To Be Release On Streaming Only Is "Blooming Away" That Set To Be Release In October This Year.

The Rise And Fall Of Their Direct To Video Movies

In 1995 Their First Direct To Video Movie To Be Release At Their New Division Titled "ABN Feature Video" Was "The Rise Of Brillance" And Why The Film Was Received Average By Critics However The Film Ended Up Doing Pretty Good In Home Video Sales With The First Copies Being Release And Selling More Than Over 4,000,000 VHS's During The Films Release Generating Over $30,000,000 Dollars Of Revenue By The End However The Film Would Ended Selling More Than Over 30 Million VHS's By The End Of 1995 Generating More Than Over $120,000,000 Dollars For The New Division By 1997 The Company Release Yet Another Direct-To Video Movie This Time A Sequel To Their Last Package Film "The Princess Bride" Titled "The Princess Bride 2: A New Prince" Found Strong Sales After The Movie's Release With The First Week With The Film Selling More Than 7 Million VHS's After It's Release And Soon The Company Would Eventually Found Their Latest Gold Mine. By 1998 The Released A Another Sequel Of Their Package Films Titled "A Girl's Miracle" A Spin-Off To Their 1980's Package Film Titled "A Boy's Miracle" The Film Wasn't Received Good As Much As The Critics Called But Did Great In Home Video Sales With The First VHS Units Selling More Than 10 Million VHS's So Far Becoming Highest-Fastest Selling VHS Of That Year. By 1999 The Division Name "ABN Feature Video" Decided To Change It's Name To "ABN Video Films" And Canadian Name Of Their Division Titled "ABN Premiere Videos" Also Launched That Year In June Of 1999 Also That Year They Also Released A Sequel To One Of Their TV Movies Titled "Being Free 2: Being With A New Hope" Was Received Poorly By Critics And Audiences Alike But It The Did Well In VHS Sales By Selling More Than Over 15 Million Copies By The First And Second Week Becoming The #1 Highest-Selling VHS So Far In The Year Of 2000 The Company Was Quickly Purchased By ABN Television Group Of The Year Were Go On To Release Newer VHS Films To Ever Be Released However The New Video Format Titled "DVD" Was Waning VHS's Popularity By This Point So 2002 The Decided To Release New Movies On That Much More High Quality Format Then VHS. Their First Film To Be Release On DVD Was A Sequel To One Of The TV Movies Titled "The Chirstmas Wish 2: The 3 Holiday Wishes" When The Film Was Release On DVD It Ended Up Performing Quite Well With In The First Week Of Sales The DVD Selled More Than 21 Million DVD's During First Week Becoming Highest-Selling DVD Of That Year In 2004 Their Next Film To Be Release On DVD Only Was "The Love Story 2: A Man's New Love!" Despite Giving Some Average Reviews So Far It Was Criticly Panned By Critics Who Called The Sequel "As Nothing From The Original Materrial So Far" But Despite The Films Negative Reception It Ended Doing Quite Well As You Expected With The Film Selling More Than 31 Million Copies So Far Becoming The Highest-Selling Film Of That Year. By 2007 The Division Was Quickly Spun Off To Its Own Company In 2008 However By Releasing More Direct-To-Video Films And Direct-To-Video Sequels To Earn More Money So Far However As By 2009 To Video Format Titled "Blu-Ray" Was Being To Pop Up Every Where So To Keep Up With New Video Format They Decided To Abandoned DVD's All Together And Decided To Go Blu-Ray By June Of 2009 To Make More Movies on That New Format The First Film To Be Release On Blu-Ray However Was "Free Of Birds" Being Release Right Around To Other Movies So Fart On Blu-Ray During That Month Why The Reviews Were Sort Of Positive The Films Rating Was A Different Were On ImDb The Films Rating Was A Bellow Score 2/10 And Were On Metacritic The Films Rating Was Below Score 20% Despite All The Recent Backlash The Film Great And Saw Total Sales Numbers With More Than 50 Million Copies Being Release However Making Slighty To Number One So Far Even With All Of The Success The Company's Reputantion Of Becoming Direct-To-Video House Empire Was Being To Disapeer All Together By 2011 The Company's Revenue Was Being To Slowed Down From Some Reason With Some Of Their Movies Not Be Critical Successes As They Were About To But If That Didn't Helped Their Decline In 2013 With The Rise Of Streaming And Video On Demand Were About Crumble Blu-ray's Popularity By This Point So 2014 The Company Decided To Keep Direct-To-Video Films Even Tho If There Were On Blu-ray Would Still A Psychl Release So Far By The End 2014 However The Company Decided To Make Big Changes By Releasing Films Throw Digital As Releasing Them On Home Video Weren't Making The Money As They Used To So 2015 The Company Offically Announced That They Decided To Release Their On Digital Instead Of Blu-ray So In June 2015 Their Last Direct-To-Video Film Titled "Magical Days" Was Release And Why They Film Was Received Ok So Far Critics And Audiences Still Hated It And Did Not Care Anymore As Blu-Ray Sales It Ended Up A Bit Poorly However By Only Selling 13 Million Blu-Rays After Its Release Even With The Company No Longer Making Direct-To-Video Films Even Their Film Company "ABN Video Films" Quickly Shut Down In 2016 And Quickly Rebranded As "ABN Digital Films" By March Of 2016 The Company Still Continues The Tradition Of Making Movies But This On Slightly To Low-Budget Of $10 Million Grand Or So By 2017 All These Digital Films Would Began To Put On Streaming Services Like Netflix,Amazon Prime,Hulu And YouTube During That Year In 2018 ABN Decided To Launch It's Own Streaming Service Titled "ABN Now" Were All Of There Direct-To-Video & Digital Films Would Remain Exclusivly On That Service Why The Other Services Began To Not Use The Films One So Ever By The End Of 2018 In 2019 The Company ABN Digital Films Was Quickly Purchased By ABN Entertainment Group $400 Million Dollars By Fall Of 2019 Thus Ending Turbilance Run Of" ABN Digital Films" As They Were Completey Bought By New Owners In 2019 And Some Of The Movies Were Now Completey Owned By Them But Whatever It Seemed It Last Time For Good To End An Era Of Company That Was About To Achive New Heights Began To Sufferly Dissapper All Together.

History Of ABN Feature Animation

In June Of 1981 ABN Films Vice President Jon Davis Decided To Go On And Launch A New Animation Studios Were They Would Go On To Feature Animated Films On The Big Screen So On June,21 1983 ABN Films Offically Launched Their New Animation Division Titled "ABN Feature Animation" Their First Animated Feature Would Be Released In March 1986 Titled "Gifted Away" When The Film Was Released It Was Received Mostly Well By Critics And Audiences Calling It As "One Of The Best Animated Masterpecies So Far" As For The Box Office The Film Was A Complete Failure By Only Grossing $18 Million Dollars Worldwide And $7 Million Dollars Demostically Alone. The Reason Why The Film Failed Was Due To The Lack Of Marketing Of What The Film Had Even The Marketing Budget Going Up Little To $6.2 Million Dollars The Film Was Money Making Failure However The Film Itself Would Get Re-Release Into Theaters By 1993 And It Ended Up Doing Quite Well With The Film Now Grossing Over $123 Million Dollars Worldwide And $108 Million Dollars Demostically As Well Getting Another Re-Released By 2002 This Time Being Released On IMAX And Being 3D As Well After It's 2002 Re-Release The Film Now Grossed Over To $430 Million Dollars Worldwide And $220 Million Dollars Demostically Alone. The Second Movie To Be Release Was "A Child's Beauty" When The Film Was Bound To Be Released Marketing For This Film Had To Been Done With And Marketing Budget Of $50 Million Dollars The Film Bound To Become A Success But It Wasn't With Budget Up $30 Million This Passion Project Only Ended Up Grossing About To $13.4 Million Dollars Worldwide And $8 Million Dollars Demostically Making The Studio Loss More Than Over $55 Million Dollars For The Company And Animation Division By Losing Over $76 Million Dollars. Why The Film's Budget Was Way To Expensive To Produced It Didn't That Critics And Audiences Burst With joy And laughter sadness and fear Of What This Film Had Even Tho With The Films Failure It Didn't Help Would A Theatrical Re-Release In 1995 Performing Way Better From The Beginning With The Film Now Grossing More Than Over $230 Million Dollars $87.5 Million Dollars After It's Theatrical Re-Release By 1987 ABN's CEO Was Also About To Pulled The Plug On The Animation Division However The Chairman Of The Division Jon Davis Refused To Close It Down This Spark Massive Fusion Between The CEO of ABN And The CEO Of ABN Feature Animation By During This Time He Gave The Animation Division Little To Lesser Money Giving More Than $500,000 Dollars For The Company And Decided To Not Market Their Films At All And Decided To Not Give An VHS Release As Well During This Time The Animation Division Was Really Losing Money And Were About To Go Bankrupt But Then On March,16th 1988 Jon And Over 5,000 Workers You Works At The Division Decided To Put Up The Marketing Campaign Titled "The Kick Out Brooks" Campaign Strike The Strike Was So Successful That Over 300,000 Workers At ABN Studios Decided To Join The Strike As Well After More Than 2 Years Of Kicking Brooks Out Turn Out To Work Because May,16th 1990 The Channels President Charlie Brooks Was Kicked Out Of The Company And Quickly Resigned As Well With Brooks Offically Out Of The Company The Company's New Chairman And CEO "Tom Redstone" Would Step In And Decided To Make Big Changes For The Brand And TV Channel As Of Hole By 1990 He Decided To Purchase The Entire Film Studio "ABN Entertainment Films" For $670 Million Dollars With The Strong Big Purchase Tim Himself Also Purchase The Animation Studio For $720 Million Dollars By 1991 To Produced New Films For The Company Itself Now With The Company's Future Looking Bright The Decided To Make Their New Animated Movie Titled "My Friend Is A Star" When The Film Was Abound To Be Release In Theaters The Marketing For This Movie Went Up A Little To More Than Over $34 Million Dollars As Well The Film Later Getting A VHS Release In 1993 To Show Hype For The Movie As Well An $18 Million Fast-Food Marketing Promotion With Burger King,McDonalds,KFC,Taco Bell And Denny's The Marketing Turn Out To Become A Success And When The Film Hit In To Theaters The Film Did Pretty Much A Okay With The Critics Saying "While Not As Good As The Studio's Previous Work It Still Manage To Be An Alright Decent Movie". As For The Box Office The Movie Ended Up Doing Much Better As You Expected To Be By Earning More Than Over $135 Million Dollars Worldwide And $103 Million Dollars Demostically Alone. The Film Also Win A Few Awards Like An Academy Award For Best Visual Effects A Grammy For The Song "Its An Beautiful World Out There." And Also Winning 13 Annie Awards For Best Visuals And Best Cinematography And Also Winning 3 Oscar Nominations For Best Sound And Music But Lost For Best Animated Picture Behind "Beauty And The Beast" During That Year However The Film Did Perform Much Better On VHS With The Film Selling More Than 10 Million Copies During It's First Week Becoming The Highest-Selling Video Of That Year. With The Last Doing Well In Theaters They Decided To Release Their Next Masterpiece "Animal Kingdom" When The Film Was Abound To Be Release They Eventually Ended Up Doing A $70 Million Dollar Marketing Stunt To Help Promote The Feature As Well An $60 Million Dollar Marketing Campaign To Help Promote The Film As Well When The Film Was In Over 13,000 Screenings The Film Turned To Become Steady Hit With Both Critics And Audiences Alike As For The Box Office It Managed To Grossed More Than Over $320 Million Dollars Worldwide And $130 Million Dollars Demostically The Film Did Win A Few Awards Like An 4 Annie Nominations For Best Sound,Best Visuals,Best Lighting And Best Animation However The Film Did 2 Oscars For Best Cinematography And Best Visual Lighting But Lost To Best Animated Picture Right Next To Aladdin However With The Film Success It Didn't Help That On Home Video However The Film Turned Out To Become A Huge Success Selling More Than Over 14 Million VHS's After Its Release. By 1994 They Release Their First 2D/Computer-Animated Feature "Valley Of The Winds" When The Film Was Abound To Be Release In They Set Up A $120 Million Marketing Stunt Campaign To Help Promote The Movie And When They Film Was Flying Throw Theaters The Film Turned Out To Become A Dinning Hit With Critics And Audiences Alike As For The Box Office It Only Manage Grossed More Than Over $218 Million Dollars Worldwide And $112 Million Dollars Demostically Becoming The Studios Least Highest-Grossing Movie That Year The Reason Why The Film Wasn't A Success Was The Movie's Budget Going More Than Over $82 Million Dollars To Finish The CGI Visuals And CG Textures To Blend In The 2D Animation With The Computer Animation Software They Used However In 2003 The Film Would Soon Later Get A Theatrical Re-Release This Time Being Release In IMAX Screenings As Well The Movie Being 3D As Well After The Films Re-Release However It Was Huge Hit Into Theaters By Grossing More Than Over $420 Million Dollars Worldwide And $251 Million Dollars Demostically Alone.