Marvel Productions

  • Marvel Productions
  • New World Animation Ltd.
Formerly
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryFilm and television
PredecessorDePatie–Freleng Enterprises
Founded1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Founder
Defunct1996; 28 years ago (1996)
FateAcquired by Saban Entertainment and Fox Kids Worldwide
SuccessorsStudio: 20th Century Animation
Marvel Animation
Marvel Studios Animation
Library:
The Walt Disney Company (majority)
Hasbro Entertainment (assets from Sunbow Entertainment & Claster Television)
Amazon MGM Studios (via United Artists)
HeadquartersHollywood, Los Angeles, California
Key people
Products
Parent

Marvel Productions, later known as New World Animation Ltd., was an American production company owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of News Corporation which was founded in 1981 as the television and film studio subsidiary of the Marvel Entertainment Group, based in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.[1] It later became a subsidiary of New World Entertainment and eventually of News Corporation.

The company as Marvel Productions produced animated television series, films and television specials such as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk, My Little Pony: The Movie, The Transformers: The Movie, and G.I. Joe: The Movie as well as The Transformers and G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero television series. Most of Marvel Productions/New World Animation's non-Hasbro-related back catalog is currently owned by The Walt Disney Company.

  1. ^ "Marvel Productions Plans Move to West Los Angeles". Los Angeles Times. May 2, 1989. Retrieved October 22, 2010.