Entertainment One

Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc.
Trade name	Entertainment One
Formerly	Records On Wheels Limited (1970–1980); ROW Entertainment (1980–2005); Entertainment One Income Fund (2005–2009); E1 Entertainment (2009–2010);
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment
Predecessors	Koch Entertainment; Contender Entertainment Group; Medusa Communications & Marketing; Alliance Films; Phase 4 Films;
Founded	1970
Founder	Vito Ierullo; Don Ierullo; Darren Throop;
Fate	Reorganized
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Darren Throop (CEO); Steve Bertram (President, Film & Television);
Products	Film; Television; Virtual reality; Live entertainment; ;
Revenue	£941.2 million (2019)
Parent	Hasbro (2019–2023); Lionsgate (2023–present);
Divisions	eOne Films; eOne Television;
Subsidiaries	Amblin Partners; BLACKFIN; Christal Films; Daisybeck Studios; Force Four Entertainment; Makeready (co-backing with Universal Pictures); Momentum Pictures; Paperny Entertainment; Renegade 83; Round Room Entertainment; Secret Location; Sierra/Affinity; Whizz Kid Entertainment;
Website	www.entertainmentone.com

Entertainment One Holdings USA Inc., trading as Entertainment One (commonly abbreviated as eOne), is a Canadian multinational entertainment company. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the company is primarily involved in the acquisition and production of films and television series.

The company originated as the Canadian music distributor Records on Wheels Limited; after it was acquired by music retailer CD Plus, the company became ROW Entertainment, with its vice president of operations Darren Throop becoming president and CEO. It later acquired U.S. music and home entertainment distributor Koch Entertainment.

By 2007, the company—now known as Entertainment One—had begun to acquire other production companies and film distributors, including Canadian distributors Les Films Séville and Alliance Films. By 2015, eOne had begun to expand its U.S. operations, including investing in Amblin Partners, and acquiring a stake in The Mark Gordon Company. In 2019, eOne announced its sale to U.S. toy and entertainment company Hasbro for US$4 billion.

The company began to face cutbacks under Hasbro, which sold eOne's original music distribution business (now MNRK Music Group) to Blackstone in 2021, and closed its theatrical distribution operations in Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom in 2022 and 2023, ahead of a planned sale of entertainment assets not strongly tied to eOne's children's entertainment brands (such as Peppa Pig, which would be folded into Hasbro's intellectual property and merchandising business following the acquisition). In August 2023, Hasbro announced that it would sell the assets to Lionsgate for $500 million. The deal closed on December 27, 2023.

Entertainment One television assets were folded into Lionsgate Television in January 2024.

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