Timeline/History of CleanFlicks
(January 2008)
2000 Ray and Sharon(wife) Lines establish CleanFlicks, LLC, a business which edits Hollywood movies to remove all sexual content, profanity, nudity and graphic violence. Initially, this is done for family, friends, customers, and local independently owned Video Stores.
2000 Clean Flicks, LLC opens two Video Rental stores under the name of CleanFlicks. These stores were located in Pleasant Grove and Orem.
2001 The New York Times publishes an article about CleanFlicks. Ray Lines appears on the Today Show, MSNBC, etc.
2001 CleanFlicks, LLC begins selling dealerships for CleanFlicks Video Stores to individuals. CleanFlicks also opens several more stores in the Salt Lake City and Logan areas.
2002-3 CleanFlicks closes or sells all brick and mortar stores and begins functioning exclusively as an online DVD rental store. Daniel Thompon’s father is a purchaser of three of these stores, one of which he immediately closes. When Daniel Thompson is released from incarceration, his father hires him as manager of one of these two stores. Shortly afterward, Daniel Thompson’s father was notified that CleanFlicks would no longer do business with Daniel Thompson nor allow him in its Corporate Offices because of suspected fraudulent conduct.
2002-3 CleanFlicks becomes involved in a lawsuit with the Director’s Guild of America and certain movie studios in Hollywood. The case was actually initiated by an independent CleanFlicks dealer in Colorado against the wishes of CleanFlicks. Nevertheless, CleanFlicks, LLC is a named Plaintiff and Counterclaim Defendant. Later, CleanFlicks would simply be identified as a Defendant with several other edited movie enterprises. None of these involved Daniel Thompson in any way.
2004 CleanFlicks Media, Inc, is formed (still doing business as CleanFlicks) and Allan Erb and Ray Lines are Partners in this business.
2005 CleanFlicks notifies all independent store owners that any contractual relationships requiring them to purchase their edited movies exclusively from CleanFlicks are terminated and notifies all stores of its intention to have the CleanFlicks name removed from store names.
2005 Any store wishing to purchase CleanFlicks movies for rental in their stores will purchase them online as other customers, but with special pricing.
2006 The Denver Colorado Federal District Court issues a ruling adverse to CleanFlicks. The owners of CleanFlicks make a decision to completely and meticulously abide by the decision and advise any other edited movie businesses or stores to do the same.
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2006-7 Daniel Thompson announces that he will continue to operate his edited movie store under an “educational exemption” (which clearly did not exist) and the use of the CleanFlicks name. Allan Erb contacts Daniel Thompson and orders him to discontinue any reference to CleanFlicks under threat of legal action. Daniel Thompson renames his store FlixClub and continues to operate until Hollywood attorneys contact him and require him to discontinue.
2008 CleanFlicks announces its new business model.
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MEDIA CONTACTS FOR CLEANFLICKS MEDIA, INC.:
David Politis, Politis Communications, 801-523-3730(work)/801-556-8184(cell), or
Jonathan Hawkins, Politis Communications, 801-523-3730(work)/801-368-2534(cell),
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