Vestron Pictures
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| Motion pictures | |
| Industry | Films |
| Fate | Acquired by LIVE Entertainment |
| Successor | LIVE Entertainment (later Artisan Entertainment, now part of Lionsgate Home Entertainment) |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Defunct | 1991 |
| Headquarters | United States |
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Key people
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Austin O. Furst, Jr. |
| Products | Motion pictures |
| Owner | Vestron, Inc. |
| Divisions |
Vestron Video Vestron Television Vestron Video International Children's Video Library |
Vestron Pictures was a film studio and distributor of the late 1980s, and a division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing.
The company was a spin-off of the earlier video distributor, Vestron Video. Vestron also had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures, a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video. Today, Lionsgate owns the rights to the Vestron library and was previously owned by LIVE Entertainment, later Artisan.
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