The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community

The sixth and current logo used since November 5, 2021 with the release of Marvel Studios' Eternals.

### Formerly

Screaming Dog Productions (1989-1994)
The Puyo Puyo Quest Music Community (1994-2004)
The Puyo Puyo!! Quest Music Community (2004-2021)

### Industry

Music production and motion picture acquisition

## Product information

### Products

Film scores, television scores, video game scores, original productions, merchandising

## History

### Founder(s)

Don Bluth
Sean Connery
Ralph Burns

## Key people

### Key people

Jamie Friedman (CEO and Head of Contributing)
Christopher Santinen (Senior Manager)
Anna Pultz (Contributing Manager)
Sean Chertz (CCO)
Tina Fleischer (Licensing Manager)

## Ownership

### Owner(s)

Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios (1994-2014)
Isobel Griffiths Ltd (90%) (2014-present)
Backyardigans International Europe (20%) (2014-2021)
Idea Factory (20%) (2021-present)
Wiggle Media (20%) (2021-present)

### Operator(s)

The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community Ltd. (Isobel Griffiths Ltd/Idea Factory/Wiggle Media)

### Parent

Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios (1994-2014)
Isobel Griffiths Ltd (2014-present)
Sega Europe (2014-2021)
The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community Ltd. (Isobel Griffiths Ltd/Idea Factory/Wiggle Media) (2021-present)

### Divisions

Creations & Productions
Merchandising Entertainment
Worldwide

### Subsidiaries

George Fenton Productions
Equinox Television

## Websites

### Official

Official Website

***The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community*** is the British standard character modeling music community and media entertainment business themed after the *Hyperdimension Neptunia* franchise and existed exclusively in Cokeverse.

The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community is best known for contributing, acquiring and co-producing several musical score and orchestral productions contracted by Isobel Griffiths Ltd., distributing to over 428 movies, 80 television programmes and 15 video games, from *All Dogs Go to Heaven* (1989) to DreamWorks Animation's upcoming *Puss in Boots: The Last Wish* (2022), assisting in bringing music production experiences and has produced its popular music collaborations since the 1990s. The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community also produces, develops and distributes its original shows and films through its Creations & Productions division, whose credits included *The T-Birds*, *Green Mile High* (series 1-8, production moved to The Puyo Puyo Champions Music Community (now The Fairy Fencer F Music Community) via its Creations & Productions division), *Grand Fantasia*, *The Spark War*, *The Time Machine*, *Penguintales*, *Rome Arena Adventure* and *Santa to the Rescue!*. The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community manages UK and global music merchandise and licensing for its own production catalog through Merchandising Entertainment. The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community was operated by The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community Ltd, a joint venture 90% owned by Isobel Griffiths Ltd and 20% by Idea Factory and Wiggle Media (co-owners of *Hyperdimension Neptunia*, originally created by The Coca-Cola Company back in 2010), and had its registered office, named The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community House, headquartered in Westminster, London, England.

The company was originally created by Don Bluth, Sean Connery and Ralph Burns as ***Screaming Dog Productions*** on 17 November 1989 to compete with The James Bond Music Community, while it began to have characters contributing to film scores such as *All Dogs Go to Heaven*, *Memphis Belle* (1990), *The Fisher King* (1991) and *Heart of Darkness* (1993). The company initially rebelled on June 14, 1994 as ***The Puyo Puyo Quest Music Community*** (later ***The Puyo Puyo!! Quest Music Community*** on July 2, 2004), whose first films via its brand were *Goldeneye*, *Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain* and *Leaving Las Vegas* the following year in 1995. The company began contributing to motion picture listings about two decades before it was officially rebranded to its current name on November 5, 2021 with the release of Marvel Studios' *Eternals*, the first film from the music community contributed and released under its new 2021 name.

The Hyperdimension Neptunia Music Community has also become one of the UK's most recognizable unique entertainment businesses and has entertained the world with some of the most powerful and successful popular contributions of all time, and was the second largest most operational entertainment standard modeling music community after *Star Wars Scoreverse* (joint venture between London Symphony Orchestra and Lucasfilm and established in 1986).

## Background

Main article: Standard Modeling Music Community
The history of the Hyperdimension Neptunia music community dates back to the early 1970s, when the London Symphony Orchestra approved how to bring characters to life. Actor and contributor Roger Moore went for something that required movie characters or cartoon characters to appear in the musical score.

Since the early 1930s, Cokeverse's cinematic scores have been performed by London orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonia Orchestra, among others as European orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic.

Moore said they could sign a deal with actor and contributor Sean Connery to invent a character-contributing thing, which was first used for "*Diamonds Are Forever*", with Connery designing a director for opera Peter Hemmings who plans to conceive an idea for a group of character contributors, which was not made to be used until he contributed to *Moonraker* Connery and Moore play technology that James Bond characters appeared throughout the James Bond musical films in 1982, which led to the launch of the world's first group of British character contributors, known as James Bond Productions (now The James Bond Music Community), which first launched on October 21, 1983.

## History

### 1986-1989: Development, conception and pre-launch

Animator-director-producer-writer Don Bluth (*An American Tail*), Sean Connery and composer Ralph Burns conceived an idea in 1986 (in which George Lucas and London Symphony Orchestra originally launched Star Wars Productions) to develop a character-filled adventure from All Dogs Go to Heaven, which would become Screaming Dog Productions , to compete with James Bond Productions. Sullivan Bluth Studios embarked on a character-filled adventure that would entertain the world through character appearances in music. Gary Goldman was brought in to help Bluth, Connery and Burns establish the new business.

Development began in 1987 and was finalized in 1988, which came on the concept named Screaming Dog Productions, which is scheduled for its launch date in November 1989. Bluth and Goldman completed efforts, to sell its contributions to the entrepreneur Isobel Griffiths.

### 1989-1992: Launch as Screaming Dog Productions

Screaming Dog Productions production began testing from 1 May 1989 until its official launch on November 17, 1989.

Screaming Dog Productions was launched in London, England on November 17, 1989, with its first film being *All Dogs Go to Heaven* (1989). Screaming Dog Productions continued to contribute to film scores and managed to reign supreme with the release of All Dogs Go to Heaven, which called Screaming Dog Productions "a character-appearing score contributor", which reached over 153.3 £000 in the UK.

Beginning in 1990, Screaming Dog Productions continued to contribute to *Memphis Belle* (1990), *The Fisher King* (1991) and *Heart of Darkness* (1993). In 1991, the new Japanese video game and mobile interactive consumer products company Madō Monogatari Studios acquired Screaming Dog Productions' 26.3% stake, making it its first group of operational character contributors. In 1992, Isobel Griffiths undertook to purchase 44.4% of Screaming Dog Productions for £30 million and agreed that 70% ownership of Screaming Dog Productions would be controlled by Isobel Griffiths Ltd. At the time, Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Sean Astin, Harry Connick Jr., Reed Edward Diamond, Tate Donovan, John Lithgow, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, Courtney Gains and Neil Giuntoli also attended the Screaming Dog event Productions titled "Screaming Dog Productions: The Moment You'll All Been Waiting For", with edited scenes from *All Dogs Go to Heaven*.

### 1993-1995: Relaunch as The Puyo Puyo Quest Music Community

On April 11, 1993, Madō Monogatari Studios announced the design with Sean Connery to approve the fate that would lead to selected *Puyo Puyo Quest* characters appearing in the score. Puyo Puyo Quest Studios, Connery and Sullivan Bluth Studios, and Isobel Griffiths Ltd have announced plans to relaunch Screaming Dog Productions as a group of standard Puyo Puyo Quest branded character model contributors. Madō Monogatari Studios was interesting when the original game was launched in Japan in 1992.

Kazunari Yonemitsu said "a huge entertainment music community that brings entertainment to life". He added: "To me, this building is the physical manifestation of a personal dream, that when people think of cartoons they say Screaming Dog, huh?".

Madō Monogatari Studios renamed Puyo Puyo Quest Studios on July 30, 1993 with the release of *Tom & Jerry: The Movie*. The set was planned in April 1994 and was to go through a major changing development from May 1994. was hired to oversee the relaunched Standard Modeling Music Community (SMMC) as a Contributions Manager.

Screaming Dog Productions was relaunched as The Puyo Puyo Quest Music Community on June 14, 1994. Over 100 UK contributors (who worked in the business) celebrated the relaunch. In early 1995, Isobel Griffiths' music contracting business, Isobel Griffiths Ltd, signed an agreement for the newly-relaunched *Puyo Puyo Quest* music community to contribute exclusively to sheet music and orchestral releases contracted by Isobel Griffiths. The thing is, no matter when London musicians play the music, the characters will contribute to any musical score, which would mark 3-12 releases, starting with three ones for the 1995 releases. Composer George Fenton said "We'll have to take what's right and we want to do something else with The Puyo Puyo Quest Music Community, which is designed to release 3-12 films a year, starting with the next three films for its Spring/Winter 1995 releases."

Composers Éric Serra (who would later compose the score for *The Fifth Element*), Joel McNeely (*The Avengers* (1998), *Peter Pan: Return to Never Land*, *Mulan II*) and Anthony Marinelli and Mike Figgis were the first composers to endorse major compositions and contributions from the Puyo Puyo Quest music community.

The first three films from The Puyo Puyo Quest Music Community were *Goldeneye*, *Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain* and *Leaving Las Vegas' ' in 1995. At the time, the company had more than 34 characters, and had over 100 employees.*

### 1996-1999: Expansion

On April 1, 1996, Puyo Puyo Quest Studios expanded The Puyo Puyo Quest Music Community into multimedia entertainment by creating its four new multimedia entertainment production divisions: Creations & Productions, Consumer Products, Interactive Entertainment and Attractions Group.