[4] A week later, Hoberman and its employees both left Mandeville to form a self-financing outfit, Hyde Park Entertainment, with Ashok Amritraj (former founder of Franchise Pictures), with split deals at the Walt Disney Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as the company initially went inactive.
The studio itself went back to Disney in 2006 to co-produce Eight Below and The Shaggy Dog back-to-back.
[citation needed] Mandeville Films has an ongoing partnership with ABC, they renewed their contracts in July 2015, for two more years.
[8] In May 2018, Mandeville Films ended its partnership with Disney to sign with Universal Pictures for a "first-look production agreement".
[10] The group was later reformed as Hobie Films with a deal with Lionsgate on February 21, 2023.