Simitar Entertainment

Simitar Entertainment, Inc. Type Media Status Defunct (bankrupt) Founder(s) Mickey Elfenbein, Philip Kives Founded 1985 Defunct May 12, 2000 Head- quarters 5555 Pioneer Creek Drive, Maple Plain, Minnesota, United States Succeeded by Encore, Inc. Website http://www.simitar.com

Simitar Entertainment, Inc. was an American entertainment company founded by Mickey Elfenbein and Philip Kives in 1985. It released three Godzilla movies to VHS in North America in 1990. In 1998, in order to capitalize on the impending release of TriStar Pictures' GODZILLA, Simitar re-released two of its earlier three Godzilla films to VHS along with three others. It also made all of these films available on DVD for the first time in the region. After Simitar went bankrupt in 2000, all of the Godzilla films that it had released, except for Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, were acquired and released again to DVD by Classic Media.

Selected releases

VHS

Set	Film(s)	Catalog no.		Year	Notes
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971)		2240		1990	Mastered from 16mm prints struck for television.
Godzilla's Revenge (1969)		2241
Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965)		2242
5 Rampaging Movies	Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)	4914	4909	1998	Tapes also sold separately.
	Godzilla Versus Mothra (1964)		4910
	Godzilla's Revenge (1969)		4911
	Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)		4912
	Godzilla Versus Monster Zero (1965)		4913
3 Tape Set	Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)	4940	4915		Tapes also sold separately.
	Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)		4918
	Godzilla Trailers & Sci-Fi Monsters (1998)		4944
5 Rampaging Movies	Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)	4961	4915		Tapes also sold separately.
	Godzilla Versus Mothra (1964)		4916
	Godzilla's Revenge (1969)		4917
	Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)		4918
	Godzilla Versus Monster Zero (1965)		4919
Widescreen Collection	Godzilla Versus Mothra (1964)	4941	4925		Tapes also sold separately.
	Godzilla Versus Monster Zero (1965)		4926
	Godzilla's Revenge (1969)		4927

DVD

Set	Film(s)	Catalog no.		Year	Notes
5 Rampaging Movies	Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)	7603	7473	1998	Discs also sold separately.
	Godzilla Versus Mothra (1964)		7474
	Godzilla's Revenge (1969)		7475
	Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)		7476
	Godzilla Versus Monster Zero (1965)		7477

Gallery

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  Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster VHS
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  Godzilla vs. Monster Zero VHS
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  Godzilla’s Revenge VHS
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  Godzilla, King of the Monsters VHS
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  Godzilla Trailers & Sci-Fi Monsters VHS
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  Godzilla, King of the Monsters DVD
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  Godzilla vs. Mothra DVD
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  Godzilla vs. Monster Zero DVD
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  Godzilla's Revenge DVD
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  Terror of Mechagodzilla DVD
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  An alternate packaging highlighting the DVD-ROM features
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  Rear cover

Trivia

• Peter Bollinger's cover art for Simitar's releases of Mothra vs. Godzilla is erroneously employed to represent Godzilla vs. Mothra on some streaming services and Sony Pictures' official website.
• The description on the back of Simitar's Mothra vs. Godzilla releases erroneously refers to Infant Island as "Monster Island."
• The description for Simitar's Godzilla vs. Monster Zero releases misspells Glenn and King Ghidorah's names as "Glen" and "Ghidra," respectively, and also erroneously states that the film was released in 1966 rather than 1965.
• The DVD menus, which follow an identical format for each film, use library tracks from the De Wolfe Music library, including "Angel Of Death" by Tim Souster (main menu), "Force Of Darkness", also by Souster (scene selection menu), and "Dramaturgy Pt.2" by Paul Lemel (special features menu).
  • All of the descriptions on Simitar's 1998 releases also credit Ishiro Honda by the common misspelling "Inoshiro Honda."

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