Laserium Films France

????-1985
In 1985, RCA was taken over by General Electric.

????-1992
They distributed laserdiscs.

1993-2005
In 1993, a consortium consisting of JVC, Hoyts, Toho, New World Pictures, Toei, Cannon Films, Great American Broadcasting (formerly Taft Broadcasting), Bertelsmann Music Group, Jim Henson Company, Canal+, Carolco, Miramax, Pathé (not to be confused with Pathé Communications), Lucasfilm, Turner (which owns Castle Rock, Hanna-Barbera and Castle Rock), MGM, American Zoetrope, October Films, Mosfilm, ITC Entertainment, Goldcrest and Gamount, formed a joint venture called International Distribution Entertainment, to maintains it's movie theaters, release B movies, British and foreign (non-American) movies, music videos, noir films, musicals, pre-1980s films (produced, owned or distributed by the members of the consortium), on laserdiscs, Betamax tapes, VHS tapes and cassettes, and release it's films internationally in theaters.

In 1994, Cannon Films was closed down. In 1996, Turner was bought by and merged to Time Warner, and Carolco became bankrupt. In 1997, New World merged to 20th Century Fox. In 1999, Great American (then Citicasters) was acquired by and merged to Clear Channel Communications, while ITC Entertainment and October Films merged to Universal Studios, which caused it to pull out of the joint venture since Universal owned United International Pictures, IDE's rival.

In 2002, the Australian branch spun off as Hoyts Distribution, as Hoyts left the joint venture, and Toho and Toei split the Japanese branch and merged them to their respective distribution divisions, as they also left the joint venture. In 2003, Clear Channel, Pathé, Gaumont and Canal+ Group left the joint venture and the French branch was split and merged to StudioCanal, Gaumont and Pathé. In 2004, Mosfilm merged the Russian and Belarussian branches to itself and left the joint venture. The same year (2004), BMG was merged to Sony BMG, which strengthened it's music video distribution business. In 2005, the American branch was split and merged to Warner Bros, Miramax, MGM and 20th Century Fox, who have left the venture that same year.

2005-2010
In 2006, the branches in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, Peru, Taiwan, Turkey, Italy, Greece, India, New Zealand, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa, North Africa and Middle East were merged to form it's division IDE South, and the branches in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg merged to form the new German branch.

Also in 2006, JVC left the joint venture. In 2007, IDE decided to launch it's film production division, after merging IDE South, IDE Germany and IDE'S branches in Netherlands, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Monaco, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Moldovia, Czech Republic, Croatia, China, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Portugal to become the film production and distribution company called IDE EASAMEA (Europe, Asia, South America, Middle East and Africa).

In 2008, Sony BMG was merged to Sony Music Entertainment. This gave IDE the international distribution rights to Aniplex films, as Aniplex is a part of SME Japan, owned by then-member of IDE, Sony BMG. Also in 2008, IDE EASAMEA was renamed to IDE Productions, established production offices in United States and Canada, and the international distribution rights to Muppets movies were purchased by Walt Disney Company, as the Jim Henson Company left the joint venture.

In 2009, American Zoetrope and Lucasfilm (which was later bought by Disney in 2012) left the joint venture as IDE Productions shut down it's offices in United States.

In 2010, it's film exhibition division was closed and the theaters worldwide became independent entities, while IDE Productions closed it's distribution division in it's branches to focus on film production. After that, IDE closed down and gave it's remaining distribution offices to IDE Productions.

2010-2011
Now as a 50/50 joint venture between Sony Music and Goldcrest, IDE Productions got the remaining distribution-only offices in the Nordic countries; Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, formerly owned by it's former parent company IDE.

It tried to launch a competitor to Netflix, called Windeo, in 2010.

In 2011, Windeo was closed, and Goldcrest Films left the joint venture to pursue it's own activities, scrapping the plans of establishing a production and international sales branch to London, and leaving the pre-2005 Goldcrest Films library to IDE. In that same year, the distribution offices were closed in Finland, Norway and Sweden, having Finnkino, SF Norge and Svensk Filmindustri acquire the distribution rights to the films that IDE was going to distribute in those countries.

September-December 2011
In November 2011, IDE Productions shut down it's last distribution office in Copenhagen, Denmark. That same month, Sony Music withdrew the distribution rights to Aniplex films and spun the production company as independent.

2010-2011
Windeo was an on-demand platform created by IDE Productions, then owned by Sony Music and Goldcrest Films. It failed miserably and it was closed in 2011.

2012-2014
After being spun off from Sony Music, IDE Productions renamed itself to Illusion Films, and opened it's home entertainment, international sales, commercial production and film promotion unit called Illusion Films 2, LLC. Afterwards, it sold and merged it's Amsterdam, Beijing and Hong Kong offices to Fortissimo Films for €25 million, making Fortissimo Films it's production and distribution partner in China and Netherlands, then sold and merged the Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal offices to Entertainment One and DHX Media, making Entertainment One it's distribution partner and DHX Media it's production partner. It's Brazilian operations in Sao Paulo merged to Globo Filmes and Paris Filmes offered to become it's distribution partner.

It's music video distribution business (now called Illusion Music Video), unfortunately, became bankrupt and was closed down in 2014.

2015-present
In 2014, Illusion Films became Mirage World Films, and MGM and Focus Features became it's American distribution and production partners.

Distribution/production partners

 * Entertainment One/DHX Media (Canada; 2012-present)
 * Fortissimo Films (China and Netherlands; 2012-present)
 * Paris Filmes/Globo Filmes (Brazil; 2012-present)
 * Finnkino (Finland; 2011-present)
 * SF Film (Sweden and Norway; 2011-present)
 * StudioCanal (France; 2003-present, Australia; 2013-present)
 * Gaumont and Pathé (France; 2003-present)
 * Hoyts Distribution (Australia; 2002-2013)
 * MGM and Focus Features (United States; 2015-present)