Mount Temple Pictures

Mount Temple Pictures is a Canadian film production company founded in June 1937 by Edgar G. Ulmer. it formerly distributes all of Walt Disney Productions and Paramount Pictures films in Canada. from 1980 to 2018, it produces it's own Canadian movies.

Mount Temple Pictures fired 12 of it's employees on March 17, 2018.

History
in 1937, the company was established by Edgar G. Ulmer and is a distribution company to make deals with Disney and Paramount. soon before distributing starts, it's headquarters was opened on 111 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Camada.

between 1939 and 1945, the company serves to fight off the Nazi Studio. in 1945, Mount Temple banned the Nazi Studio and started distributing it's own movies.

Mount Temple distributed all Embassy Pictures films from 1950 to 1967, when New Line Cinema makes a deal with Mount Temple. in 1972, Mount Temple Pictures released Fritz the Cat in Canada. Mount Temple also released Heavy Traffic in Canada in 1973. Ralph Bakshi also decided cancel the deal with Mount Temple Pictures.

due to Victory Pictures' sale to Cinépix Film Properties, Mount Temple Pictures ended the deal with New Line and restarted distributing it's own movies in 1980. the first Canadian home video company called HGV Video Productions took away canadian distribution rights to Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic from Mount Temple.

the reason that HGV won is that Mount Temple stole Ralph Bakshi's first two movies. 5 days later, Mount Temple closed it's longtime headquarters on 111 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

in 1981, the company established it's new headquarters on 1335 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia. it has many movies produced.

it celebrated the 50th Anniversary in 1987 and a year later, the company launched Mount Temple Television to produce TV Shows.

in 1992, the company launch it's arthouse movie division called Eyeball Company to distribute arthouse films, but all failures of it's arthouse films caused Mount Temple Pictures to sell Eyeball Company to 20th Century Fox in 1997.

in 2001, Mount Temple Pictures was bought by the Empire Company Limited and is beable to produce 45 films a year. in 2009, DreamWorks Animation made a 4-year deal with Mount Temple Pictures, were lasted until 2013 when distribution was sold to Maple Pictures.

in 2012, the company celebrated the 75th Anniversary. it became one of the surviving studios of Canada.

following Weinstein effect, Mount temple announced to produce and release 7 films a year.

after DreamWorks' The Boss Baby lost the Oscar to Disney/Pixar's Coco on March 4, 2018, Mount Temple Pictures fired 12 of it's employees.

after Stephen Hillenburg's death on November 26, 2018, Mount Temple Pictures is sold by Empire Company Limited to Cable Axion.

on March 14, 2019, Mount Temple decided to stop distributing it's films forever and only produce them. The Next Day, Axion bought film distribution company Maple Leaf Entertainment.

Current

 * Mount Temple Digital (aka MTD Films) (since 2006)
 * Mount Temple-vision (since 2005)
 * Mount Temple Television (1955-2005)
 * Mount Templmation (since 2007)
 * Michael Lake Productions (1975-1977)
 * Mount Temple Animation (1977-2007)
 * Mount Temple Records (1984–present)
 * Mount Temple Streaming (since 2019)

Former

 * Mount Temple Home Entertainment (1994-2011) (Folded into Mount Temple Digital)
 * Mount Temple Videodisc (1975-1982)
 * Mount Temple Videocassette (1979-1982)
 * Mount Temple Video (1982-1990)
 * Mount Temple Home Video (1990-2004)
 * Mount Temple Interactive (1994-2011) (Folded into Mount Temple Digital)
 * Mount Temple Pay Television (1984-1997) (closed down)

Current

 * Maple Leaf Entertainment (since 2019; founded in 2000)
 * Nova Films (since 2005; founded in 1955)
 * Reindeer Pictures (since 1999; founded in 1972)
 * Party Rock Cinema (since 2008; founded in 1943)
 * Stream Ice Pictures (since 1987; founded in 1934)

Former

 * Wright Kingdom Films (1992-1993; founded in 1947 and defunct in 1993) (folded)
 * Top Burner Studios (1990-2010; founded in 1982) (sold)
 * Big Land Productions (1952-1982; founded in 1952 and defunct in 1982) (merged)
 * Time Internet Clock (1992-2019; founded in 1979 and defunct in 2019) (folded into Party Rock Cinema)