Madman Entertainment

Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that specializes in the distribution of anime and manga in Australia and New Zealand.

The company was founded in 1996. At the beginning it was limited to the publication of animes, but later they extended their offer to manga, live-action movies ( live action ) as well as cinema films. Among the most famous publications include Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Akira and the complete catalog of Studio Ghibli. The company is managed by its two founders, Tim Anderson and Paul Wiegard. Currently about 100 people are employed in different departments and generates an estimated 50 million dollars in sales per year.

Some publications were developed in collaboration with the English distributors MVM Films and Revelation film in order to minimize production costs. For this reason, some DVD releases are equipped with two region codes. (Region 2 and Region 4 ). Some publications are also provided without region code. The reason is that these were imported from America and simply get only new packaging.

Thus, the large number of manga publications by Tokyopop in America and by Chuang Yi in Singapore, it was decided at Madman Entertainment to import these and distribute in Australia. In early 2008 announced Madman that they will also publish manga by Viz Media.

Distribution

Madman Entertainment has a " major label" and various " sub-labels ", under which they publish their program. The main label Madman Entertainment used for the bulk of the Publications. Publications of Real films take place under very different sub-labels such as Madman Films, Directors Suite, Madman Sports, Madman Laughs, Madman Television, Bollywood Masala and Eastern Eye. Specifically geared to children content is offered under the labels Planet Mad and Mad4Kids while Madman Cinema is used for theater productions.