verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message madman entertainment type private industry entertainment founded 1996 ; 20 years ago 1996 founders tim anderson paul wiegard headquarters richmond victoria australia area served australia new zealand fiji and papua new guinea key people directors ; brett chenoweth chairman tim anderson paul wiegard adrian mackenzie charbel nader products dvd blu ray disc digital video manga video on demand website www.madman.com.au madman entertainment is an australian company that distributes australian and international films as well as japanese anime and manga in australia new zealand and papua new guinea . madman is one of the major entertainment companies in australia . it employs approx 100 people and has an annual turnover of around a 50 million . 1 its headquarters is in richmond victoria . 2 3 madman has secured the local release rights to popular titles including sailor moon one piece dragon ball neon genesis evangelion akira steins ; gate and almost all of studio ghibli s catalogue . in addition to dvd sales madman manages the theatrical release of some of their titles particularly the studio ghibli movies . according to market research madman accounts for 97 % of the total anime home media market in australia . citation needed contents 1 history 2 animelab 3 anime snacktime hour 4 sponsorship 5 references 6 external links history edit madman entertainment was founded in 1996 to release anime in the australia from manga entertainment uk with siren entertainment acting as distributor after siren lost the rights to most of manga uk s catalogue . later on in 1997 madman started to distribute anime from adv films along with siren entertainment . in 2001 madman entertainment bought siren s distribution equipment and established the av channel allowing madman to distribute their own titles . in the same year madman entertainment became the sole distributor of manga entertainment s uk and us titles in australia & new zealand after polygram australia relinquished their rights to manga uk s back catalogue and siren lost the rights to street fighter ii v which was licensed from manga usa . madman now sublicenses anime from adv films funimation harmony gold viz media bandai entertainment media blasters formerly geneon & recently sentai filmworks although siren visual licenses the majority of their english dubbed titles as well as titles from manga entertainment . madman has licensed titles that were sub licensed to madman by geneon directly though the original japanese licensors and this practice is also applied when north american and british licensees do not have australian rights to their titles . madman is also the exclusive licensee and distributor of anime from namco bandai holdings in australia licensing titles through bandai entertainment sunrise and emotion despite namco bandai holdings having an australian subsidiary namco bandai partners . as of 2008 only some of manga entertainment australia s titles from the 1990s have been distributed by madman . battle angel alita was to be released in australia by manga and madman in 2001 but this was cancelled because adv films had the rights to the ovas in north america and tried to market it in australia with a new dub while manga uk and madman entertainment had the rights in the uk australia and new zealand . some of their dvd releases have been jointly mastered with britain s mvm films or revelation films to save costs and are therefore dual region region 2 and region 4 . a few dvd titles from madman such as the oh my goddess ovas are all region or multi region dvds in the ntsc format imported from the us and repackaged for sale in australia and new zealand which normally use pal colour . madman & manga uk also work together on pal dvd & region b blu ray masters and video transfers sometimes co licensing titles due to a title s high cost . a growing selection of manga titles translated by tokyopop in the united states and chuang yi in singapore are being imported and distributed through madman entertainment . in february 2008 madman announced that they would also be distributing manga titles from viz media . 4 madman currently distributes manga from viz media dark horse comics tokyopop and recently from yen press with the 2012 release of the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya . madman launched in 1996 solely as an anime distribution company but has since expanded . they manage the distribution of live action titles through their labels madman films directors suite madman sports madman laughs madman television bollywood masala and eastern eye and also children s entertainment through their planet mad and mad4kids labels . madman also has a theatrical distribution arm called madman cinema . in addition the company distributes original series produced by australia s special broadcasting service on dvd . 5 in 2007 madman began a licensing agreement to release original cartoon network and adult swim series on dvd in australia and new zealand . 6 madman also programmed adult swim s anime block in the two countries 7 until cartoon network australia dropped its entire adult swim lineup on 1 january 2008 . 8 madman entertainment released the complete series of m.a.s.k. over two dvd collections for the first time in australia cook islands fiji kiribati nauru new zealand papua new guinea samoa and vanuatu . collection one was released in november 2006 and contains episodes 1 38 collection two was released in march 2007 and contains episodes 39 65 as well as all ten episodes of the racing series . 9 at the 2008 supanova pop culture expo madman announced plans to explore new distribution methods . the company now offers online streaming of selected anime episodes beginning with the first episode of school rumble . 10 madman now has a sub page madman scereening room dedicated to video streaming . 11 madman has also begun releasing blu ray disc titles starting with the transformers the movie in june 2009 . 12 13 on june 1st 2009 madman entertainment released an english adaption of tamagotchi the movie a 2007 film based on the tamagotchi digital pets from bandai and wiz . madman also intended to dub the film s sequel tamagotchi happiest story in the universe but the dub was cancelled for unknown reasons . in april 2008 the company announced a collaboration with british company warp films . warp and madman plan to make at least two films together over the next three years starting with tyrannosaur . 14 in july 2014 madman s original founders tim anderson and paul wiegard together with brett chenoweth the former ceo of apn news & media ; charbel nader an investment banker who is chairman of metro media publishing ; and adrian mckenzie the former cvc asia pacific managing partner who led the buyout of the nine network from pbl completed a buyback of the business from funtastic limited asx fun . 15 in early 2016 madman announced an anime convention madman anime festival to run annually from the 3rd 4th of september starting on 2016 at melbourne with madman entertainment animelab and bushiroad being the main sponsors of the convention . 16 animelab edit in may 2014 madman launched animelab a video on demand service streaming anime hits and simulcasts from japan . animelab launched free without ads with 50 series and 700 episodes . 17 anime snacktime hour edit madman entertainment and c31 melbourne announced an anime programming block called anime snacktime hour . anime snacktime hour has its direct focus on titles from madman entertainment s anime library showing them . the block currently airs on c31 melbourne . sponsorship edit as of 2016 madman ent is the sponsor for new zealand and possible australian manga anime events . 18 and their own madman anime festival for melbourne in australia . 19 references edit about us 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