Artanis Entertainment Group
{{Short description|American media group}}
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Artanis Entertainment Group is an American media group specialising in reissues of archival material. The company was founded by Frank Sinatra and Warner Bros. Records to make films{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/frank-sinatra-9484810#solo-career|title=Frank Sinatra|work=biography.com|accessdate=November 11, 2015}} and the name comes from Sinatra's surname spelled backwards. The company was reactivated as a record label following Sinatra's death in 1998, releasing several archived live concerts that had been previously unreleased.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-11-ca-45246-story.html|title=Getting a Kick Out of Sinatra, Live in Concert in 1957|first=Robert|last=Hilburn|newspaper=LA Times|date=June 11, 1999|access-date=November 11, 2015}}
History
=Films=
Artanis Productions, Inc. produced the Sinatra-starring films None but the Brave (1965) and The First Deadly Sin (1980), and the TV movie Contract on Cherry Street (1977).{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0074700/|title=Artanis Productions Inc.|publisher=Internet Movie Database}}
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Artanis Entertainment Group was founded in 1999 by Sinatra's family.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yg0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA79|title=Declarations of Independents|first=Chris|last=Morris|magazine=Billboard|date=January 23, 1999|page=79|accessdate=November 12, 2015}} The name of the label is "Sinatra" spelled backwards.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1212.html|title=Frank Sinatra Dies at 82; Matchless Stylist of Pop|work=New York Times|date=May 16, 1998|accessdate=November 11, 2015}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_i5f3jhD9UC&pg=PA3071|title=The New York Times Guide to the Arts of the 20th Century: 1900–1929|year=2002|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=1579582907|page=3071}} The new label grew out of a deal between Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records (Sinatra's label), creating the new Artanis label. As part of the deal, the family moved the record company to Warner's headquarters in Burbank, California.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1FSWBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT615|title=Sinatra: The Chairman|first=James|last=Kaplan|year=2015|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0385535403|page=615}}
The label's first two reissues in 1999 were The Summit, a previously unreleased live recording from a 1962 set by Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., and Sinatra '57 in Concert, a remastered recording of Sinatra's June 9, 1957 concert in Seattle.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31|title=Vital Reissues|date=July 24, 1999|magazine=Billboard|volume=111|issue=30|page=31}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19990630&id=xeFPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3612,7806082&hl=en|title=Forgotten 1957 Sinatra recording now an album|first=Gene|last=Stout|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|date=June 30, 1999|publisher=Ocala Star-Banner|page=5C}} Later releases include Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) and The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas (1968).{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/artanis-entertainment-group-mn0000240793/credits|title=Artanis Entertainment Group|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=November 11, 2015}}
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