MC Entertainment

{{Short description|Russian anime and film distributor}}

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| name = MC Entertainment

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| genre = anime

| foundation = 2000

| defunct = 2012

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| area_served = Russia, Kazakhstan{{cite web |url=http://www.expert.ru/printissues/kazakhstan/2009/01/interview_kosobaev/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730002912/http://www.expert.ru/printissues/kazakhstan/2009/01/interview_kosobaev/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 30, 2012 |script-title=ru:Аниме-отаку атакуют |trans-title=Anime otaku attack |last=Vlasenko |first=Olga |date=January 19, 2009 |publisher=Expert |language=Russian |access-date=6 February 2010 }}

| key_people = Dmitry Fedotkin (general director)

| industry = multimedia entertainment

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MC Entertainment was a Russian distributor of anime and films from Japan, United States, Germany, Great Britain, China, Thailand and South Korea.{{cite web|url=http://www.mc-ent.ru/contact.html|title=About us|publisher=MC Entertainment|language=Russian|access-date=6 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003223609/http://www.mc-ent.ru/contact.html|archive-date=3 October 2011}} The company, headed by Dmitry Fedotkin,{{cite web | author = Eugene Kahn | url = http://www.animemagazine.ru/48.06/tema_01.php | title = Аниме Лицензия в России: Компания MC Entertainment | work = Interview with Dmitry Fedotkin | trans-title = Anime license in Russia: MC Entertainment company | date = April 25, 2007 | publisher = AniMag | access-date = 2009-04-04 | language = Russian | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110723023153/http://www.animemagazine.ru/48.06/tema_01.php | archive-date = July 23, 2011 | url-status = dead }} was founded in 2000. As of 2007, it is the largest anime company in Russia. It is also the first Russian company aimed exclusively at the anime market. MC Entertainment was one of the founders of AnimeGid magazine, as well as Moscow Anime Festival and anime*magazine sponsor.{{cite journal|year=2004|script-title=ru:От редакции |trans-title=Editor's column |journal=anime*magazine |issue=3|pages=3 |issn=1810-8644|language=Russian}}

Until 2006 MC Entertainment did not have any rivalries, becoming a monopolist on Russian anime market. In the beginning of 2006 its first competitor XL Media appeared, later was founded other anime companies Mega-Anime and Reanimedia.{{cite web | author = Eugene Kahn | url = http://www.animemagazine.ru/48.06/tema_04.php | script-title = ru:Дистрибьюторы аниме в России | trans-title = Anime distributors in Russia | date = April 25, 2007 | publisher = AniMag | access-date = 2009-04-04 | language = Russian | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110723023217/http://www.animemagazine.ru/48.06/tema_04.php | archive-date = July 23, 2011 | url-status = dead }}