Twilight Time

Twilight Time is a boutique home media label specializing in releasing limited edition DVD and Blu-ray discs of classic films, founded in 2011. All titles were sold online exclusively through Screen Archives Entertainment until July 1, 2015, when the company launched their own online store. On May 9, 2020, Twilight Time announced they would be ceasing operations on June 30, 2020. However, on May 14, 2020, Screen Archives Entertainment announced they had reached an agreement to acquire the rights to Twilight Time's back catalogue and inventory, consisting of 380 films in total. Per the announcement, Screen Archives stated that the agreement "ensures that the Twilight Time label will continue indefinitely, according to the principals." History Twilight Time began in 2011 as the brainchild of Brian Jamieson and Nick Redman, both veterans of the motion picture and music industry. Both founded the company as a way to release vintage films for the classic DVD collector. Initially, Twilight Time licensed 20 films from 20th Century Fox's catalog to release on DVD and, when possible, in high definition on Blu-ray. The goal was to release films of varying genres that had never been released on home video in the United States. Twilight Time's initial focus was on films of the 1950s and 1960s in what Redman called "the Cinemascope period, those gorgeous widescreen entertainments that had it all—beauty, glamour, drama." But, he added, "We will also be selectively tackling the earlier years—the 1930s and 40s—and sampling every genre, presenting, hopefully, something for everyone." Ultimately, according to Jamieson, "Twilight Time will be serving both the collectible drive of film enthusiasts, and, in a larger sense, the cause of cinema literacy." Their first title, The Kremlin Letter, was scheduled to be released on January 25, 2011, but for unknown reasons, the release was pushed back by two months. On September 1, 2011, Twilight Time announced a deal with their second film studio, Sony Pictures, to license and release titles from the Columbia Pictures library beginning in November 2011. The first titles to be released under this partnership included Ray Harryhausen's 1961 science fiction-fantasy classic, Mysterious Island, followed by the original Fright Night, the horror-comedy cult favorite written and directed by Tom Holland. Twilight Time will only be releasing Columbia Pictures on Blu-ray if a previous Sony DVD version is already available.