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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
PolyGram Pictures, Inc.
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Inc.
PolyGram Film Productions, B.V.
Privacy
Fate Sold to Seagram, merged into Universal Studios
Successor Universal Studios
Founded 1980
Defunct 2000
Headquarters Universal City, California & London, England
Owner Philips (1980–1998)
Seagram (1998–2000)
Parent PolyGram (1980–1998)
MCA Inc. (1998–2000)
Divisions PolyGram Television
PolyGram Video

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE) (originally known as PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures) was a British-American film studio, founded in 1980, which became a European competitor to Hollywood, but eventually sold to The Seagram Company in 1998 and folded in 2000.

Among its most successful films were An American Werewolf In London (1981), Flashdance (1983), Batman (1989), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), Fargo (1996), Trainspotting (1996) and Notting Hill (1999).

The music company PolyGram (owned by Dutch-based Philips and Germany's Siemens) created PolyGram Pictures in 1980 as a partnership with film producer Peter Guber. It was a spin-off of sorts to Casablanca FilmWorks, the film unit of PolyGram's Casablanca Records which Guber previously ran and had success with The Deep and Midnight Express. PolyGram reserved the finances and Guber would run as CEO. Guber would form a partnership with Barbra Streisand's hairdresser Jon Peters, who co-produced his client's A Star Is Born remake. Peters would produce PolyGram's films, and eventually become a stockholder with Guber.


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