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::''This article is about the animation studio. For the atmospheric phenomena, see 22° halo'' Sunbow Entertainment was an animation studio, founded in 1980 and owned until 1998 by Griffin-Bacal Advertising in New York and in the United States. Griffin-Bacal's first animations were animated commercials for Hasbro's G.I. Joe toy line. The success of the animated commercials led partners Tom Griffin and Joe Bacal to form Sunbow Productions. ==Company overview== Sunbow is noted for many cartoons aired during the 1980s. Most of their work was co-produced with Marvel Productions (now part of The Walt Disney Company). Although it is not limited to Hasbro's various toy lines its reputation is tied to the cartoon series tied to them. Its animation was initially produced by the Japanese animation studio Toei Animation, supplemented by the South Korean animation studio AKOM later on. By 1987, most of Hasbro's toy lines were losing money and internal struggles forced the company to end popular series such as ''G.I. Joe'' and ''Transformers''. Two of Sunbow's animated movies, ''The Transformers: The Movie'' and ''My Little Pony: The Movie'', flopped at the box office, forcing a third project, ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'', to be released directly to video. Sunbow also worked with TMS Entertainment with Hasbro's ''Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light'', and one episode of season 3 of ''The Transformers'', "Call of The Primitives". In a bid to produce original material, Sunbow produced several cartoons through the early 1990s such as ''The Tick'' and ''Conan the Adventurer''. Only ''The Tick'' managed to gain popularity and critical acclaim. On May 4, 1998, Sony Wonder, a division of Sony Music bought Sunbow Productions〔Schneider, Michael "EBSCO Host" 05/04/98 (Sony Wonder gets animated ) connection.ebscohost.com, Reetrieved on August 29, 2013〕 and it was later bought by TV-Loonland on October 3, 2000, as well as Sony Wonder's television business assets,〔"Screen Daily" (MIPCOM: TV-Loonland acquires Sony Wonder ) screendaily.com "Retrieved on May 22, 2012"〕〔"Variety" OCTOBER 3, 2000 (TV Loonland buys up Sony Wonder units ) variety.com, Retrieved on August 29, 2013〕 which then bought Metrodome Distribution, who had the European rights to the Sunbow catalogue. Previously, Rhino Entertainment owned the U.S. home video distribution rights to the Sunbow catalogue. The rights then changed hands to Sony Wonder with its acquisition of the catalogue. However, Sony Wonder was shut down in March 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Transformers DVD news: Report Says Studio with "Transformers" License is Shutting Down - TVShowsOnDVD.com )〕 On June 20, 2007, it was announced that Sony Wonder had been moved into Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, which at the time owned the U.S. rights to the Sunbow catalogue.〔"Variety" (absorbs Wonder label ) variety.com, Retrieved on December 8, 2013〕〔(Sony Home Ent. Takes Over Sony Wonder ) Rick DeMott awn.com, Retrieved on August 28, 2013〕 On May 14, 2008, Hasbro announced that it had obtained the rights to all the Sunbow Productions animated series based on Hasbro properties. This includes ''Transformers'', ''G.I. Joe'', ''My Little Pony'', ''Jem and the Holograms'', and many more.〔Thomas K. Arnold "Reuters" (Kids label Sony Wonder going under: sources ) reuters.com, Retrieved on August 30, 2013〕〔Thomas K. Arnold "The Hollywood Reporter" 3/14/2007 (Sony ceases Wonder label ) hollywoodreporter.com, Retrieved on August 30, 2013〕〔Ryan Ball "Animation Magazine" Mar 15th, 2007 (Sony Wonder Closing Shop? ) animationmagazine.net, Retrieved on August 30, 2013〕 The titles are currently managed as part of the Hasbro Studios library. TV Loonland filed for bankruptcy in 2009 and 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sunbow Entertainment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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