The Rank Organisation the Rank Group acquired all the outstanding shares of the Rank Organisation. In spring 1997, Rank sold Rank Film Distributors, including its library of 749 films, to Carlton Television for £65 million and immediately became known as Carlton/RFD Ltd. Pinewood Studios and Odeon Cinemas were both sold off in 2000. The company finally severed its remainings connection with the film industry in 2005 when it sold its DVD distribution business and Deluxe technical support unit. A = The Archers<br> BB Betty E. Box–Ralph Thomas Productions<br> C = Cineguild Productions<br> GB = Gainsborough Pictures<br> H = Hammer Studios<br> I = Individual
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