Genius Products, Inc. (“We”, “Our” or the “Company”) is an entertainment company that produces, publishes, licenses and distributes films, videos and music on digital versatile discs, or DVDs, universal mini discs, or UMDs, and compact discs, or CDs, under a variety of branded and non-branded names. Our products are sold at traditional, direct response, mail order and internet retailers nationwide and, to a lesser extent, internationally.
We sell our own proprietary content, license content from third parties and distribute content for third parties for a fee. We currently have U.S. home video distribution rights to selected films and will have the exclusive U.S. home video distribution rights to feature film and direct-to-video releases owned or controlled by The Weinstein Company (“TWC”), a new film company created by Robert and Harvey Weinstein (see Recent Developments) upon closing of our transaction with TWC. We have released two TWC titles on DVD. On March 21, 2006, we released Derailed , starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen, and on April 11, we released Wolf Creek , an Australian horror film. Upcoming TWC films planned for home video release by us include Hoodwinked , an updated retelling of the classic story of Red Riding Hood with the voices of Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close and Jim Belushi; Mrs. Henderson Presents , starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins; Transamerica , starring Felicity Huffman, winner of the Golden Globe Award for best actress; The Matador , starring Pierce Brosnan; and Scary Movie 4 . Potential new releases include sequels to Sin City , Kill Bill and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . We will also release content on DVD for Rainbow Media and the Independent Film Channel or IFC.
We sell our own proprietary content, license content from third parties and distribute content for third parties for a fee. We currently have U.S. home video distribution rights to selected films and will have the exclusive U.S. home video distribution rights to feature film and direct-to-video releases owned or controlled by The Weinstein Company (“TWC”), a new film company created by Robert and Harvey Weinstein (see Recent Developments) upon closing of our transaction with TWC. We have released two TWC titles on DVD. On March 21, 2006, we released Derailed , starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen, and on April 11, we released Wolf Creek , an Australian horror film. Upcoming TWC films planned for home video release by us include Hoodwinked , an updated retelling of the classic story of Red Riding Hood with the voices of Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close and Jim Belushi; Mrs. Henderson Presents , starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins; Transamerica , starring Felicity Huffman, winner of the Golden Globe Award for best actress; The Matador , starring Pierce Brosnan; and Scary Movie 4 . Potential new releases include sequels to Sin City , Kill Bill and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . We will also release content on DVD for Rainbow Media and the Independent Film Channel or IFC.
