In 1978, he had a starring role in In Praise of Older Women for Avco-Embassy Pictures.

The film was titled Night of the Sorcerers when it was dubbed into English and released theatrically by Avco-Embassy in 1974.

WLWT was the next to last to be sold, going to Multimedia, Inc. ( along with Avco-Embassy Television, Avco's production division, and the syndication rights to The Phil Donahue Show ) in 1976.

After the success of Halloween, Avco-Embassy signed him and producer Debra Hill to a two-picture deal.

In 1979, Avco-Embassy released Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park in cinemas outside the United States, with translations of the title Attack of the Phantoms.

Their feature film for Paramount Pictures, Easy Come, Easy Go, was canceled when Berry, as well as the film's director and other crew members, were seriously injured in a railroad accident while shooting the movie in Chatsworth, California in August 1965.

Song of the South was re-released in theatres several times after its original Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Pictures premiere, each time through Buena Vista Pictures: in 1956 ; in 1972 for Walt Disney's 50th anniversary ; in 1973 as the second-half of a double bill with The Aristocats ; in 1980 for the 100th anniversary of Harris ' classic stories ; and in 1986 for the film's own 40th anniversary and in promotion of the upcoming Splash Mountain attraction at three of Disney's theme parks.

A joint collective effort to commit to the film's production was made by Touchstone Pictures, Blinding Edge Pictures, and the Kennedy / Marshall Company.

" Hoffman has never discussed any inspiration Evans may have provided for the role, and claims on the commentary track for the film's DVD release that much of Motss ' characterization was based on his own father, Harry Hoffman, a former prop manager for Columbia Pictures.

Shortly after the film's failure Dave Fleischer, still maintaining his position as co-chief of his studio, had left Fleischer Studios to run Columbia Pictures ' Screen Gems cartoons.

* At the beginning of the film's opening credits, the Columbia Pictures " Torch Lady " does a quick-change into a cartoon Cat Ballou, who draws and fires her pistols into the air.

When The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was finally completed, David Puttnam, who had originally got the film's distribution rights in the US for Columbia Pictures, had been replaced as CEO of Columbia ; coupled with Gilliam's prior quarrels with major studios over Brazil, the film saw only very limited distribution in the US, earning $ 8 million in US box office.

Though the film's title character is never mentioned in the lyrics, Universal Pictures, which had released E. T.

It is " not quite an independent film " released by Orion Pictures, with Jonathan Demme receiving presenter credits for his role in the film's financing.

Completed in fall 1941, Disney's distributor RKO Radio Pictures initially balked at the film's 64-minute length and wanted Disney to either make it longer, edit it down to a short subject length, or allow them to release it as a B-movie.

* Worldwide rights to Always are now with Universal Pictures, the film's co-producing studio.

* Lionsgate also now owns US DVD rights to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now ( under license from Paramount Pictures, which owns US distribution rights on behalf of the film's rights holder, American Zoetrope, Coppola's company ).

So strong was her box office appeal by 1939 that she was one of four finalists that year for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone with the Wind ; the film's producer, David O. Selznick, had briefly romanced Arthur in the late 1920s when they both were with Paramount Pictures.

( Universal Pictures, the film's original distributor, owns only the video rights and the film's copyright ), while owning full rights to the 1965 television version of Cinderella.

A change in studio management at Columbia Pictures during post-production also led to professional and personal difficulties that undermined the film's release.

The film's content ( including some language and brief nudity ), which was deemed inappropriate for a Disney film at the time, led to the creation of the Touchstone Pictures label, which would release films targeted towards older audiences.

A joint collective effort to commit to the film's production was made by the film studios of Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures, it depicted a fictitious President Hammond who, in the film's opening scenes, refuses to deploy the military against a march of the unemployed and instead creates an " Army of Construction " to work on public works projects until the economy recovers.

In extreme cases, a single film's poor performance can push a studio into bankruptcy or equivalent financial ruin, as happened with RKO Pictures ( The Conqueror ), United Artists ( Heaven's Gate ), Carolco Pictures ( Cutthroat Island, once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of all time ), Fox Animation Studios ( Titan A. E.

Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures was threatened by First National's financial power and its control over the lucrative first run theaters and decided to enter the cinema business as well.

The group consists of Sony Corporation ( holding and electronics ), Sony Computer Entertainment ( game ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( motion pictures ), Sony Music Entertainment ( music ), Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( music publishing ), Sony Financial Holdings ( financial services ) and others.

With the financial and critical success of The Sixth Sense in August 1999, Shyamalan gave the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group a first look deal for Unbreakable.

It brought Paramount Pictures to " the verge of financial collapse ," and became an example of " self-indulgent extravagance " in filmmaking " that was ruining Hollywood.

The serious financial crisis it created for Columbia Pictures damaged the partnership between Capra and studio head Harry Cohn, as well as the friendship between Capra and screenwriter Riskin, whose previous collaborations had included Lady for a Day, It Happened One Night, and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.

Hudson Hawk has the dubious distinction of being the final film produced by TriStar Pictures prior to their being bought out and merged with Columbia Pictures ( which was going through similar financial difficulties ).

Matters worsened when Columbia Pictures experienced financial difficulties.

" Columbia Pictures was experiencing financial problems, and they were depending on this film to save their company.

The first film produced at the remodeled studio was the Walter Forde thriller Rome Express, which became one of the first British sound films to garner critical and financial success in the United States ( where it was distributed by Universal Pictures ).

In part this was due to the continuing turmoil at MGM / UA ; bought by Ted Turner in 1986, he could not get financial backing to complete the deal and, seventy-four days later, re-sold UA and the MGM trademark to Kerkorian, and sold the MGM studio lot to Lorimar ( now the location of Sony Pictures Studios ), while keeping almost all of the MGM / UA library for himself ( with the exception of the United Artists library ).

In June 1982, Filmways announced that its name would become Orion Pictures Corporation and that the company had been " quasi-reorganized " to put it on a sound financial footing.

Financed by Novak's Kimco Filmways Pictures, Boys ' Night Out was not a financial or critical success.

This time, ETMA was competing with Ely Landau, founding president of National Telefilm Associates, who had resigned from the company in order to head his own venture for this ; and by David Susskind, who received financial backing from Paramount Pictures.

Ovitz also provided corporate consulting services, helping negotiate several major international business mergers and deals including Matsushita ’ s acquisition of MCA / Universal, the financial rescue of MGM / United Artists, and Sony ’ s acquisition of Columbia Pictures.

Shortly after this pilot was delivered, Marvel started having financial issues ( New World Pictures, who purchased the Marvel Entertainment Group or MEG from Cadence Industries in 1986, sold MEG in January 1989 to the Andrews Group ) and stopped work on just about everything but Muppet Babies.

At this time, Paramount Pictures was in deep financial trouble.

In 2006, Paramount Pictures became the primary distributor of animated features produced by DreamWorks Animation, many of which, such as Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon, were notable critical and financial successes.

In the documentary film The Revolution Business produced by Austrian TV ORF and distributed by Journeyman Pictures, Srdja Popović claimed Đinović is the main financial backer behind the non-governmental organization CANVAS.

In 1976, Laughlin announced that he was more than $ 7 million in debt and blamed the financial troubles on unethical behavior by Warner Bros. Pictures, which he said had illegally sold the television rights to his films.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warners in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed the Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that it was no longer exclusive and that other film company's could test sound with Western Electric as well ; the Warners were even forced to sell some of their stock to Harry Cohn, the head of the independent film company Columbia Pictures.

The film was previewed at approximately two and a half hours, but Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios, who both had a major financial investment in the film, felt the film was too long to be a blockbuster.