PorchLight Entertainment, Inc. was an American animation and live-action studio founded in 1995 by Bruce D. Johnson and William T. Baumann. It is focused on development & production of television series in both live action and animation. It specializes in producing animation for television, film and home video.

History

On February 20, 1995, PorchLight Entertainment officially began its operations. It was headed by Bruce D. Johnson, former employee of

Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ) was an American animation studio and production company which was active from 1957 to 2001. It was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera following the decision of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to c ...

, and former

Taft Broadcasting The Taft Broadcasting Company (also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated) was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company was rooted in the family of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the Un ...

employee William T. Baumann. Their first acquisition is to bring ''

Adventures from the Book of Virtues ''Adventures from the Book of Virtues'' is an American animated children's television series based on the books '' The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories'', and ''The Children's Book of Virtues'', both by William Bennett, who serve ...

'' to television. Their project was then picked up by PBS, who ordered it to their series commitment. In 1997, while on the virtue of its own successful programming, it would spend $10 million on expanding its own programming activity and planning on to do made-for-TV movies. In 1998, it launched a motion picture division, PorchLight Pictures, which specialized on having motion picture distribution. In 2000, it bought the international film, TV and distribution rights to the motion picture, ''

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''. In 2001, it signed a deal with

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to distribute titles based on ''

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''. In 2004, it was acquired by their senior management and Beringea through Global Rights II, through its parent company, PorchLight Worldwide, Inc. In 2011, Bruce D. Johnson, one of PorchLight's co-founders, started Foxfield Entertainment. In 2018, PorchLight Entertainment was acquired by Trilogy Animation Group.

Filmography

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A Martian Christmas ''A Martian Christmas'' is a Mexican-American sci-fi Christmas animated film, released direct-to-video on November 11, 2009. The film was produced by Ánima Estudios and Porchlight Entertainment. The film was directed by José Alejandro García Mu ...

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The Eggs ''The Eggs'' is a children's animated television program that broadcast on the Nine Network The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It ...

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Four Eyes! ''Four Eyes!'' is an animated television series created by Darryl Kluskowski and co-produced by PorchLight Entertainment, Pictor Media and Telegael Teoranta for France 3. Plot summary The series centers around a misanthropic alien girl called Emm ...

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JetCat JetCat is a young female superhero who "flies like a jet, and fights like a cat", created by Jay Stephens (of ''Tutenstein'' and ''The Secret Saturdays'' fame), who first appeared in the weekly comic strip "Oddville!" beginning in 1994. The chara ...

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Kid Paddle ''Kid Paddle'' is a Belgian gag-a-day comic series created by Michel Ledent ( Midam) in 1993. It was first published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'' before branching out into its own volume comic albums in 1996. The series ...

'' *'' LeapFrog'' *''Mr. Frog & Mrs. Frog's Big Day Out'' *''The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow'' *''

The Secret Saturdays ''The Secret Saturdays'' is an American animated television series created by Canadian cartoonist Jay Stephens for Cartoon Network. It debuted on October 3, 2008 in the United States. The series follows the adventures of the Saturdays, a family of ...

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Tutenstein ''Tutenstein'' is an American animated television series, produced by Porchlight Entertainment for Discovery Kids based on the comics by Jay Stephens. The series premiered on November 1, 2003 and ended on October 11, 2008. It features young mumm ...

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Night of the Twisters ''Night of the Twisters'' is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Ivy Ruckman that was released in 1984 by publisher Harper & Row (now HarperCollins). The book is a semi-fictionalized account of the 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, whi ...

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Born Champion ''Born Champion'' is a 1998 American sports film written by Joe Hart, directed by Aron Schifman and starring Dan Haggerty, Kathleen Gati, Jenna Fischer, Josh Aubin, Leslie Ryan and Elyse Rogers. The low-budget film is notable for being the fe ...

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Pope Dreams ''Pope Dreams'', also known as ''Music for My Mother'', is a 2006 film written and directed by Patrick Hogan. The film won five awards at various film festivals. Premise An aspiring drummer wants his dying mother to get an audience with the pope ...

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I Downloaded a Ghost ''I Downloaded a Ghost'' is a 2004 film starring Carlos Alazraqui as Winston the Ghost and Elliot Page as Stella Blackstone. Plot Stella Blackstone (Elliot Page) and her best friend Albert (Michael Kanev) are twelve-year-olds with ambitious inte ...

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