Trivision/Commondire Productions LLC

Trivision/Commondire Productions LLC, simply known as Tridire, was a production and distribution company located in Anaheim, California. They specialized in creating and distributing B-movies, documentaries, drama films, action films, and comedy films. They were bought by Baseline Holdings in 1987.

1961-1987: Early Trivision/Commondore Era
Trivision/Commondore was founded in 1961 by Bryce Campbell's father, Victor Campbell, and Justin Visalia. The film/distribution company was created by the merging of two other companies, both being The Trivision Distribution Company and Commondire Productions Inc. At the time, their company consisted of 1000+ people, mostly from the employees that had already worked for them. After merging, the company headquarters were moved from Burbank to Anaheim because their old headquarters were too small to work in. Tridore released their first successful film, Carry On With the Pain, which made $45,000,000 in the box office. Another company called Baseline Holdings was impressed by their success and wanted to buy them off and expand it further. Tridore declined at first, but after looking at how big Baseline was, they accepted.

1987-1993: Baseline Era
After Baseline acquired Tridore, things went downhill for the most part. Baseline forced them to make movies in a short period of time (example: 8 months), and Tridore couldn't keep up with the time. Their movies were not that great, and most got ratings from 3.0 to 1.1. Tridore wasn't happy and so were the fans of them, and they blamed it on Baseline for forcing Tridore to make movies in a small period of time. In 1993, Tridore separated from Baseline once and for all.

1993-1999: Drillimation Era
When Victor sadly passed away in 1993, Bryce Campbell became the president for the company, and he was really obsessed with Drillimation.