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Wanna know what grinds my gears? FilmRise, a major name in the streaming industry. They have the streaming rights to hundreds of TV shows and movies. This blog post will cover their history and my commentary about them.
FilmRise was founded in 2012 by brothers Danny and Jack Fisher, alongside Alan Klingenstein, as a company called Fisher Klingenstein Ventures LLC. FilmRise is FKV LLC's trade name.
FilmRise uses internet-based proprietary data analytics to figure out what type of content viewers of Streaming Video On Demand platforms (SVOD) want to watch. This data was originally used to set the launch a network of 22 themed channels on their own platform. They later on used this data to acquire the rights of some programmng to distribute via Amazon's Disc On Demand programming and on YouTube.
Their biggest success was with the HLN true-crime series Forensic Files. FilmRise acquired the streaming rights to the show from its production company, Medstar Productions. This was the first major deal with the devil, as I like to call it. This caused the show to appear on Netflix and Hulu, and as such, true-crime fans were eating that stuff up.
But more shows got acquired, and as such FilmRise became a McStreaming company, as I like to call it. Shows such as the smash hit "Hell's Kitchen" and its sister show "Kitchen Nightmares" have had major successes, particularly with its uncensored versions. Even the classic Japanese cooking show Iron Chef isn't safe from their grasp.
Animation isn't safe from the blandness of FilmRise. They own the streaming rights to Babar, THE SUPER MARIO BROS. SUPER SHOW, THE ADVENTURES OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, Bear in the Big Blue House, Rolie Polie Olie (Which are Disney shows. Must be Bob Chapek's doing.) and Rooster Teeth's adult animated web series. Not even anime is safe from McStreaming, since they own the rights to multiple Beyblade and Bakugan series.
Before FilmRise was a thing, though, they were an independent film studio called First Look Studios. This studio released a handful of films. They also, alongside Williams Street, released Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, the same movie whose country-wide guerilla marketing with light-up devices in the shape of the Mooninite characters from the show the movie is based on caused the 2007 bomb scare in the city of Boston.
This is one of those Lite Brite-like devices thought to be improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
As you can see, it is in the shape of a pixelated alien creature.
And before you ask, yes, he's giving the finger.
But I digress. First Look's logo from 2006 is really relaxing and impressive for the 2000s. Take a look below.
This video is originally by YouTuber ENunn, but I downloaded it so nothing happens. Thank god for YouTube to MP4!
The libraries of First Look, the first incarnation of Millennium Films, and the former Fremantle International, later known as Kaleidoscope Entertainment, were acquired by FilmRise, and as such, added to the McStreaming Empire. And as such, whenever you're watching a streaming print of, say, the independent comedy drama with Morgan Freeman, Ten Items or Less, you'll see the FilmRise logo before the logos for First Look, THINKFilm, Clickstar, Revelations Entertainment, and Mockingbird Pictures. At least they aren't replacing the First Look logo with FilmRise, since they own the company. They also now own the 90s teenage boy's guilty pleasure, Baywatch. That's because it was originally produced by Fremantle/Kaleidoscope. So expect modern prints of the show on ANY platform to have the FilmRise stamp of death.
If there was any good way to describe FilmRise, it would be to show it as portrayed by SpongeBob, which is:
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