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Foundation date 1 january 1979
Sonar Entertainment, Inc., formerly known as Cabin Fever Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment and RHI Entertainment, is an American producer of television movies and miniseries, founded in 1979 by Robert Halmi Jr. and Robert Halmi Sr. (1924-2014) as Robert Halmi Incorporated.
In 1988, the Halmis merged their company with Hal Roach Studios to form Qintex Entertainment, named after the Australian company that bought a share in the new venture. After Qintex's downfall, the company's assets were acquired by RHI Entertainment, with New Line Cinema and Chemical Banking Corporation acting as shareholders. Hallmark Cards purchased RHI in 1994 and renamed it to Hallmark Entertainment. In 2006, the Halmis, along with affiliates of Kelso & Company, reacquired the company and revived the RHI name.
In 2007, RHI began offering premieres of its films to digital cable customers of Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Cox Cable and Comcast, via the video on demand service. Also that year, RHI licensed a number of its new movies, miniseries and back catalog titles to global subscribers of Apple's iTunes service.
RHI has an extensive library that includes material from its Hallmark Entertainment and Qintex Entertainment predecessors, including most of the classic Hal Roach library (Topper, Laurel and Hardy, etc.), the Lonesome Dove television franchises, and the theatrical and home video rights to the Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts released before MGM took over the series.
In June 2010, it was revealed that RHI might go bankrupt. The company filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in December of that year. After emerging from bankruptcy in March 2011, Halmi, Jr. left the company. Halmi, Sr. followed suit in February, 2012 and will form a new company. RHI's new management will now focus on "television series and other formats that have not traditionally been central to RHI’s business model."
In March 2012, RHI was renamed Sonar Entertainment.
Filmography of Sonar Entertainment (39 films)
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, 1h38Directed by Scott Waugh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Adventure
Actors Josh Hartnett, Mira Sorvino, Jason Cottle, Joey Miyashima
La misère dans la vie d'Éric s'accumule et en plein sevrage d'une addiction à la drogue, il décide de s'évader du réel et de s'enfoncer aux montagnes avec son snowboard.
The Phantom (2009)
, 3hDirected by Paolo Barzman
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ryan Carnes, Sandrine Holt, Isabella Rossellini, Cameron Goodman, Ron Lea, Seydina Balde
Depuis 470 ans, le Fantôme (Phantom, en VO) lutte contre la cupidité, la cruauté et la piraterie sous toutes ses formes depuis son repère dans la forêt de Bengalla où il protège le peuple Bandar et veille sur la forêt. En 400 ans, 21 générations de Fantômes se sont succédé et ont toutes prêté le même serment. Mais le 21e est mort.
Blood Monkey (2007)
, 1h30Directed by Robert Young, Robert Malcolm Young
Origin Thailande
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors F. Murray Abraham, Matt Ryan, Amy Manson, Matt Reeves, Laura Aikman, Sebastian Armesto
Anthropological professor Conrad Hamilton attempts to study a new species of primate, possibly the missing link between humanity and the great ape, found in a hidden valley deep within the jungles of Thailand. Hamilton's initial research team tries to capture one of these new (and very large) primates, but fail and are all killed. Hamilton and his assistant Chenne, who survive because they are away from the camp site, scour the area looking for clues and remains of their team.
, 1h15Directed by Davis Doi
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Alyssa Milano, Malcolm McDowell, Jamie Kennedy, Kathy Griffin, Wayne Knight, Kimberly Brooks
The 12-year-old orphan Kex Bradley, escapes from an orphanage, hoping to see the world. He stows away on a lifeboat, but is later pushed overboard during a storm out at sea and later finds himself on an island called Dinotopia. Here, he befriends the beloved young dinosaur "26" (known from the miniseries) and a 12-year girl named Mara. They get in trouble fast as the evil Ogthar is released from his stone prison and recovers the Ruby Sunstone, whose dark power can endanger all of Dinotopia. They soon have to stop Ogthar in time to save Dinotopia. In the process, the Ruby Sunstone is destroyed.
A Christmas Carol (2004)
, 1h37Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Kelsey Grammer, Jesse L. Martin, Jane Krakowski, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Geraldine Chaplin, Jason Alexander
The film opens at the London Exchange on Christmas Eve in 1843 where everybody is looking forward to Christmas Day except for the crabby and greedy miser Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge who hates Christmas shows his cold attitude to others by refusing to show mercy to a father and his daughter who are in debt, supporting the prisons and workhouses for the poor and refusing to dine with his nephew Fred. That night though as Scrooge dines alone before going to bed the ghost of his seven-year dead partner Jacob Marley appears. He tells Scrooge to repent or suffer the same as him by wearing a chain as Marley wears the one he forged from his own greed. Other ghosts also haunt Scrooge who too wear chains implying they were selfish and cold-hearted when they were alive. Marley tells Scrooge he will be haunted by three spirits and the first will call at One.
The Lion in Winter (2003)
, 2h47Directed by Andreï Kontchalovski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Christmas films
Actors Patrick Stewart, Glenn Close, Andrew Howard, John Light, Rafe Spall, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Le roi Henry II garde sa femme, Eleanor, enfermée dans les tours à cause de ses fréquentes tentatives de le renverser. Une fois Eleanor hors d'état de nuire, il peut avoir ses liaisons avec sa jeune maîtresse. Il va sans dire que la reine n'est pas contente, bien qu'elle ait encore de l'affection pour le roi. Travaillant par l'intermédiaire de ses fils, elle complote la mort du roi et l'accession au trône de son deuxième fils préféré, Richard. Le plus jeune fils, John, un bouffon en surpoids et le seul fils à avoir l'affection de son père est le choix du roi après la mort de son premier fils, le jeune Henry. Mais John est également trop avide de pouvoir et est prêt à comploter la mort de son père avec son frère cadet, Geoffrey et le jeune roi de France, Phillip. Geoffrey, bien sûr, voit la faiblesse de son jeune frère et considère cette voie comme son chemin vers le pouvoir. De toute évidence, des intrigues politiques et judiciaires s'ensuivent.
, 1h29Directed by Steve Barron
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Ricky Tomlinson, Amanda Redman, Bradley Walsh, Philip Jackson, Dean Lennox Kelly, Robbie Gee
England manager Phil Cope suffers a heart attack during qualification for the World Cup, which started out well but has gone badly wrong of late. The FA heads meet to decide who should be the new England manager, but soon run into trouble. The most successful Premier League manager is Scottish (based on Sir Alex Ferguson), the second most successful is a former England captain who is interested in the job, but the FA decide that he is too much of a "loudmouth" and refuse to consider him (a reference to the numerous times Brian Clough was passed over for the England job), while none of the other English managers in the Premiership are interested. They are forced to look to Division One, and Bassett, who has just won the Mr Clutch Cup with Norwich City.
Virtual Obsession (1998)
, 3hDirected by Mick Garris
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Actors Peter Gallagher, Mimi Rogers, Jake Lloyd, Andy Comeau, Lee Garlington, Michael O'Neill
Scientist Joe Messenger has created a super-computer controlling the city's utilities. Juliet Spring, computer technician who becomes Joe's assistant, is incurably ill and hopes to keep herself alive by downloading her brain and personality into Joe's computer system.
Crime and Punishment (1998)
, 2hDirected by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Patrick Dempsey, Ben Kingsley, Julie Delpy, Eddie Marsan, Penny Downie, Richard Bremmer
Un homme est rongé par la culpabilité et par sa conscience d'avoir commis un assassinat.
The Secret Agent Club (1996)
, 1h30Directed by John Murlowski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films
Actors Hulk Hogan, Lesley-Anne Down, Richard Moll, Barry Bostwick, James Hong, Lyman Ward
Pour tout le monde, Ray Chase (Hulk Hogan) n’est rien de plus qu’un paumé, vendeur de jouets dont la femme est morte il y a quelques années, et son fils unique Jeremy (Matthew McCurley) n’arrive pas à le voir très souvent, car il est toujours absent dans ses « voyages d’affaires ». Ce que personne ne sait, pas même Jeremy, c’est que son père est un agent secret qui voyage partout dans le monde remplir des missions hautement classées top-secret pour une agence de maintien de la paix.
White Dwarf (1995)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Markle
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Paul Winfield, Neal McDonough, CCH Pounder, Beverley Mitchell, David St. James, James Morrison
In the year 3040, New York medical student Driscoll Rampart (Neal McDonough) is completing his internship on Rusta, a rural planet which due to it being tidally locked to its primary, is divided into contrasting halves of day and night with the halves separated by a wall. The two sides are involved in a civil war: The day side containing a Victorian-styled colony is at odds with the night containing a medieval kingdom. The differences between the two cultures leaves Rampart in a state of wonder. Rampart arrives from Earth for a six-month stint at the Light Side clinic run by Dr. Akada (Paul Winfield). Rampart's ambition is to eventually set up a private practice in Manhattan on Park Avenue.
The Yearling (1994)
, 1h30Directed by Rod Hardy
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Strauss, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jean Smart, Wil Horneff, Brad Greenquist, Richard Hamilton
A young, impoverished 12 years old boy named Jody Baxter (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child of four, lives on a farm in 1870s Florida Everglades shortly after the American Civil War develops a lasting bond with an orphaned deer named Fawn.
Gypsy (1993)
, 2h33Directed by Emile Ardolino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bette Midler, Cynthia Gibb, Peter Riegert, Edward Asnere, Elisabeth Moss, Lacey Chabert
Determined to make her young, blonde, and beautiful daughter, June, a vaudeville headliner, willful, resourceful, domineering stage mother Rose Hovick will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She drags June and her shy, awkward, and decidedly less-talented older sister, Louise, around the country in an effort to get them noticed, and with the assistance of agent Herbie Sommers, she manages to secure them bookings on the prestigious Orpheum Circuit.
, 2hDirected by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan, Susan Blakely, Ariana Richards, Barton Heyman, Brian Kerwin
The sequel to the TV movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, and his family move to Baltimore where he becomes the law partner of his old adversary (Harry Morgan), where he goes against the State of Maryland, suing on behalf of an institutionalized mental patient for release.
Alone in the Neon Jungle (1988)
Directed by Georg Stanford Brown
Origin USA
Actors Suzanne Pleshette, Danny Aiello, Jon Tenney, Joe Morton, Raymond Serra, Jon Polito