Eric "DealMaker" Parkinson
Eric F. Parkinson (born December 15, 1958) is an American entertainment producer and distributor, and is CEO of Hannover House.
A former news photographer for NBC-Affiliate station KKRD in Wichita, Kansas, Parkinson moved to Los Angeles in 1983 and began working in the emerging home video industry at Continental Video, Inc. He won his first RIAA Platinum Sales Award the next year with his ABC-Sports co-production release of "The 1984 Summer Olympic Highlights" video, the first of 137 sales achievement awards to be earned over the next 25 years.
From 1985 to 1988, Parkinson was President of the specialty video production company, Twin Tower Enterprises, Inc. From 1989 to 1991, he was President of A.I.P. Home Video, Inc., before moving to Hemdale Film Corporation in March 1991 to become President of Hemdale Home Video, Inc. and Hemdale Communications, Inc., with partners John Daly and Derek Gibson. From 1996 to 2001, Parkinson was a partner in Plaza Entertainment, Inc. (with John Herklotz and later with Charles von Bernuth), and in January 2002, he took over sales, marketing and eventually the ownership of Truman Press, Inc., d/b/a "Hannover House" a respected, boutique book publishing company, and added a DVD products line.
In December, 2009, Parkinson and his operating partner at Hannover House, D. Frederick Shefte, entered into an agreement to merge with the publicly-traded Target Development Group, Inc., in order to create a financing structure to facilitate the company's move into higher-profile, theatrical level films and release activities. Hannover House also distributes a library of over 175 titles.
Parkinson has also produced or executive produced over forty feature films and television specials, and is currently at work on his film directing debut with ShadowVision a science-fiction thriller for release in 2012.
Parkinson attended the University of Kansas beginning in the Fall of 1977 and was a member of the varsity football team, while majoring in Film and Television. Eric is the brother of Mark Parkinson, the recent former Governor of Kansas.
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