distribution company formed in the 1990s . it was one of the biggest distributor companies in the nordic countries . sandrew metronome was established by the swedish company sandrews and the danish metronome . later the norwegian media company schibsted acquired metronome and became joint owner with sandrews . schibsted gained sole owner in 2006 but later divested its holdings of sandrew metronome to a group of investors and its former ceo in 2013 . between 2005 and 2007 sandrew metronome sold its cinemas . in 2011 the company ceased its theatrical distribution operations leaving it with only the dvd distribution . sandrew metronome was for decades one of the leading scandinavian majors . historically revenue was generated from the exploitation of its content through traditional distribution platforms including theatrical distribution home entertainment and television . sandrew metronome also owned movie theatres in sweden denmark and finland with no. 2 positions in the nordics . for several years sandrew metronome was the nordic distributor for films by warner bros. and had also acquired the nordic rights for the movies from focus features miramax path lionsgate . the business has since then been repositioned to having a sharp focus on exploitation of and investment in entertainment content for digital distribution platforms . sandrew metronome holds a broad collection of valuable intellectual property and commercially successful and critically acclaimed entertainment content such as movies tv series and music catalogue rights . in the movie catalogue are among others the high quality and award winning movies titles der untergang the queen lost in translation the phantom of the opera and volver . external links edit sandrew metronome to shut down swedish theatrical distribution screendaily.com 10 march 2011 schibsted s ljer sandrew metronome schibsted sells sandrew metronome schibsted.no 17 april 2013 official homepage sandrew metronome at the internet movie database v t e schibsted newspapers 20 minutes france 20 minutos spain aftenposten aftonbladet svenska dagbladet vg shared ownership newspapers adresseavisen bergens tidende bladet troms f drelandsvennen harstad tidende stavanger aftenblad online e24.no e24.se finn hitta sesam subsidiaries 701search pte. ltd. joint venture with singapore press holdings eesti meedia group estonian magasin group media norge schibsted forlagene urnalu leidybos grupe see also category schibsted this article about a film production company or film distributor is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sandrew metronome & oldid 743752819 categories schibstedfilm distributorsfilm production companies of swedenfilm production companies of denmarkfilm production companies of norwayfilm company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages danskdeutschfran aisnorsk bokm lsuomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 02 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view