RLJ Entertainment Acquires Image Entertainment

[Kristian Idol]

Evidently, this was announced a year ago, but there's been no post here. Hopefully more catalog!

RLJ Acquisition, Inc. Agrees To Acquire Image Entertainment, Inc.

Robert L. Johnson, Chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), announced today that RLJ Acquisition, Inc. ... has entered into agreements to acquire each of Image Entertainment, Inc. and Acorn Media Group, Inc., two highly complementary media businesses to create one of the largest independent distributors of digital and video content globally. The new combined company will be named RLJ Entertainment, Inc.

(press release, 2 April 2012)

[Clark Kent]

Image has mostly seemed content with licensing a few catalog titles on Blu-ray for release. They had a bigger presence on DVD, for the most part.