Distributor
Lightyear Entertainment
4011 Alcove Avenue, Studio City, CA 91604-2346
- Official Website
Send Message- Arnie Holland
CEO
arnie@lightyearentertainment.com
- Sky Spooner
EVP
sky@lightyearentertainment.com
- David Lawrence
david@lightyearentertainment.com
Key Contacts- Arnie Holland
Lightyear is a Los Angeles and New York based entertainment company, a leading and award winning innovator in film and music, founded in Manhattan in 1987. In the past thirty years Lightyear has blazed the trail for extraordinary films including: Oscar® nominee Tanna (Amazon), award winning film Goldstone (Netflix), The Etruscan Smile starring Brian Cox (Starz), MAZE (HULU), CRSHD (HULU), The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry (Netflix, TUBI), We Go On (SHUDDER), Stevie Nicks: Live At Red Rocks (Amazon), Across The Line (Showtime, Netflix, HULU), 16 Bars (Sundance Now), Sweet Dreams by The Eurythmics, Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae, Elvis ’56, A Night With Lou Reed, Best of The Beatles, Kevin Hart: Live Comedy From The Laff House, Oscar® winner The Accountant with Walton Goggins, Ray Davies’ Return To Waterloo, The Jane Fonda Workout series, Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal, and Aria. Additionally, album releases from Nina Simone, Buddy Rich, The Call, Steel Pulse, The Giraffes, Ocean Carolina, Damian Marley and Julian Marley, Sophie B. Hawkins, Grover Washington Jr., and many others.
Lightyear marketing and distribution provides a way for independent film to thrive in the increasingly diverse film and video arena. We mount and market national theatrical releases. We sell to television, Video-On-Demand, and AVOD/SVOD. Our digital and physical film distribution is conducted through MVD in North America, reaching outlets like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes as well as physical retail stores. Our film library includes more than 120 films.
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Release Calendar
Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos
June 20, 2025 | Limited
From a tumultuous Bronx upbringing, the movie chronicles Harley Flanagan's rise to punk stardom at 13, featuring raw NYC footage and interviews with icons like Flea and Ice-T, depicting his transformative journey.
Voodoo Macbeth
October 21, 2022 | Limited
In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast production of 'Macbeth' struggles to make it to opening night amid the downward spiral of their young and untested director - Orson Welles.
To-Date: $7,514
a-ha: The Movie
April 8, 2022 | Limited
It follows the band on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. When Take On Me reached number 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985 the dream came true. Or did it?
16 Bars
November 8, 2019 | Limited (1 Locations)
Inmates in Virginia attempt to transcend the cycle of recidivism through an unlikely artistic collaboration behind bars with Grammy-winning hip hop artist Todd 'Speech' Thomas.
To-Date: $10,985
The Etruscan Smile
November 1, 2019 (4 Locations)
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. He moves in with his estranged son Ian, as he sees his life getting transformed through a newfound bond with his baby grandson.
To-Date: $8,213
Maze
March 22, 2019 (9 Locations)
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
To-Date: $44,381
Goldstone
March 2, 2018
Indigenous detective Jay Swan arrives in the town of Goldstone to search for a missing person, and his simple duty becomes complicated when he uncovers a web of crime and corruption.
To-Date: $87,639
Tanna
September 16, 2016 | Limited
Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.
To-Date: $46,654
