Entertainment One

Entertainment One, known as eOne, is a Canadian entertainment company that is today a subsidiary of Lionsgate Studios and trades as Lionsgate Canada, based in Toronto. It began on 1 June 1973 as the music distributor Records on Wheels Limited, became ROW Entertainment after CD Plus acquired it, and took the name Entertainment One in 2001 under Darren Throop, who became president and chief executive. It bought the American distributor Koch Entertainment in 2005, expanded into film and television production and distribution, and invested in Amblin Partners. Hasbro acquired eOne for four billion dollars in 2019 and sold it to Lionsgate for 500 million dollars in a deal that closed on 27 December 2023; its film and television divisions were then folded into Lionsgate, and its music business, now MNRK Music Group, had been sold to Blackstone in 2021.