Full Moon Entertainment

Full Moon Entertainment is an American independent film production company, specializing in low-budget horror cinema for the direct-to-video market. It was founded by producer and director Charles Band. Full Moon Entertainment evolved from Band's previous production company, Empire Pictures, which was based out of Italy in the 1980s.

Citing the fall of the Italian lira, the Rome based Empire closed its doors in the late eighties and Band returned to the States. There he formed Full Moon Productions which was quickly changed to Full Moon Entertainment and later became Full Moon Studios and Full Moon Features before settling on the current Full Moon Pictures. During this time, Band produced exclusively with Paramount Home Video before parting ways with that company in 1994. Since then, Full Moon has been an independent company, producing and distributing solely for the home market.