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HHSE CEO Bio @ Empire Film Group





An Old Bio From His Days at Empire Film Group:

ERIC PARKINSON - DISTRIBUTION CONSULTANT

As President and C.E.O. of Truman Press, Inc. (d/b/a “Hannover House”) since January of 2002, Parkinson expanded the company’s product scope from book publishing into the growing DVD production and distribution marketplace. In only five years, Parkinson has built the film and DVD catalog for Hannover House to over 170 titles. Hannover has direct sales relationships with most of the key USA mass merchants and video retailers, as well as theatre chains, book sellers and other forms of film distribution.

Prior to Empire/Hannover, Eric founded and managed (as CEO/President) Hemdale Communications, Inc. and Hemdale Home Video, Inc., a NASDAQ Traded, Independent Video and Film Distribution Studio. During Parkinson’s five-year contract with Hemdale, he managed the business to achieve more than $150-million in revenues through the release of 90 feature films. Parkinson has over twenty-four years of experience as a President or C.E.O. in the Motion Picture, Television, Video and International Film Distribution industries, handling all aspects of acquisition, production, campaign design, publicity, advertising and marketing implementation, as well as the administration and management of support staff of over 100 employees. As a motion picture marketing executive, Parkinson has had more #1 best selling titles than any other independent distributor in North America, and has more R.I.A.A. Gold or Platinum certified hits than any other marketer. Parkinson has also produced 20 feature films, over 30 made-for-video programs, and released over 800 titles to the U.S. video marketplace. Former # 1 best-selling titles for Parkinson include "Terminator", "Little Nemo" (both BILLBOARD # 1 titles), "Savage Land", "Magic Voyage" and "Highlander: The Gathering" (all Video Business Magazine # 1 titles).

Eric attended Wichita State University and the University of Kansas where he majored in Radio, Television-Film. He is also founder and a board member of the $100-million dollar "Science Springs" museum project for N.W. Arkansas, a world-class, Smithsonian-affiliated museum complex to showcase and explain science and technology.

http://www.empirefilmgroup.com/eparkinson.html








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Eric Parkinson While at Hemdale Communications

Hemdale Film Corporation, known as Hemdale Communications after 1993, was an independent film production company and distributor founded in London in 1967 as the Hemdale Company by actor David Hemmings and his manager, John Daly. Hemdale was initially founded as a talent agency that helped launch the careers of such bands as Black Sabbath and Yes. However, after Hemmings left the company in 1971, Daly purchased the rest of the company and refocused Hemdale as a film studio. Originally a producer and distributor of British films, Hemdale relocated to Hollywood in 1980. Derek Gibson later joined the company.

Among its most well-known films are The Terminator, The Return of the Living Dead, Hoosiers, Salvador, River's Edge, Platoon, and The Last Emperor; the latter two were back-to-back recipients of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Despite these critical and commercial successes, Hemdale followed these films up with a series of box office bombs and the company eventually declared bankruptcy.

In 1991, Eric Parkinson joined Hemdale as president of the company, eventually shutting down its production facilities and duties, and started acquiring and distributing films independently produced by other people.

In 1995, Hemdale shut its doors, shortly after it was announced that Daly and Gibson would leave the company. The library was then incorporated into Consortium de Realisation, a French holding company set up to handle the rights to titles acquired by Credit Lyonnais Bank.

After the studio's closing, the Hemdale library was incorporated into the Orion Pictures output now owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after MGM acquired the Consortium de Realisation library from PolyGram (ironically, Orion was the original distributor for many of Hemdale's films). One key exception is The Last Emperor, a Hemdale production originally issued by Columbia Pictures, but whose rights are now held by its producer, Jeremy Thomas. Most of the outside productions Hemdale distributed have subsequently returned to their original owners (such as Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, which producer Tokyo Movie Shinsha now controls worldwide).

In 1991, Hemdale created a collection of many video cassette titles released by Hemdale Home Video, which was formed by Parkinson, around the United States of America. In 1995, the video rights to some of Hemdale's higher-profile titles were licensed to LIVE Entertainment (now Lionsgate).

The company's last new credit was for the Virgin Games video game adaptation of The Terminator, which showed up on the game's start up screen as "Hemdale's The Terminator" in text on the scrolling logo, despite all box art calling it "The Terminator"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemdale_Film_Corporation

Shadow Vision - Release Date: 17 May 2013 - Budget: $3,200,000
Directed by Eric Parkinson
Writing credits Eric Parkinson
Produced by Eric Parkinson
Production Design by
Joe Schilling
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475386/fullcredits
Mini Biography
Joseph was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas; he relocated to Los Angeles, in 1989 to get more active in film production and distribution. Joseph worked as the operations manager at A.I.P. Studios in Culver City, CA from 1989 to 1991; he moved over to Hemdale Communications in a similar capacity from 1991 to 1996, with additional duties including production design work and post-production supervision (including the remastering, re-transferring and remixing of "Terminator"). While at Hemdale, he took on his first production designer feature duties for "Grizzly Mountain," which included the ground-up construction of a period-accurate log cabin for the film (which set was also later used in the Jim Jarmusch film "Dead Man" starring Johnny Depp). Joseph moved over to Plaza Entertainment, Inc. in 1996 and in 1998 relocated their warehouse operations to Fayetteville, AR. In 2002 he joined Hannover House as operations manager in Arkansas. In addition to his daytime duties with Hannover House, Joseph also worked on development of several of his own projects, including the feature drama, "Daddy's Little Hero." Joe married Deborah Midgett in Las Vegas in 1990, and together they have four children, Luke, Leigha, Landon and Logan, all still residing in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Joseph is the brother of novelist, screenwriter and actress Vivian Schilling.

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