J. Arthur Rank but continued to handle all distribution for the Rank organisation until 1955, when it was renamed J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors. In 1939 Rank consolidated his film production interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios. In 1938 Rank bought the Odeon Cinemas chain. and the Amalgamated Studios in Elstree, although the latter were never used as film studios by Rank. In 1941, it absorbed the Gaumont British, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, (later owned by the BBC) and bought the Paramount Cinemas chain, so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned
Open Season 3 animated at Reel FX Creative Studios, which also did animation for "Open Season 2" along with Sony Pictures Imageworks. A teaser trailer for the sequel was released on January 5, 2010, on the "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" DVD. Like "the second film" and , Open Season 3 was released theatrically in different countries: The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and UMD Video in the United States on January 25, 2011, by Columbia Pictures. DVD Verdict gave the film a negative review, saying: "This tiresomely predictable tale exemplifies everything that's wrong about straight-to-DVD animated sequels to big-budget mainstream