Goldcrest Films

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Goldcrest Films is a British film production company founded by Jake Eberts in 1980. It enjoyed great success in the 1980s with films such as Local Hero (1983), The Killing Fields (1984) and Hope and Glory (1987) mostly produced by David Puttnam on modest budgets. The company also benefited from the new investment of Channel 4 in film production. The company won two Academy Awards for Best Picture, for Chariots of Fire in 1981 and Gandhi in 1982. After these initial successes the company backed more expensive productions with established Hollywood stars that often ran over schedule and budget culminating in The Mission (1986), Revolution and Absolute Beginners that all turned out to be major box office flops.

The company was also involved in television production, including the popular series Robin of Sherwood.

The companies history is detailed in Eberts' book My Indecision is Final: The Rise and Fall of Goldcrest.

[edit] Films and series

• Elvis and Anabelle (2007)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Gandhi (1982)
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)
• Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)
• Secrets (1983)
• Forever Young (1983)
• Local Hero (1983)
• The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
• Runners (1983)
• The Dresser (1983)
• Winter Flight (1984)
• The Frog Prince (1984)
• Concealed Enemies (1984)
• Tottie: The Story of a Dolls' House (1984)
• Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986) (TV series)
• Another Country (1984)
• These Glory Glory Days (1984)
• P'tang Yang Kipperbang (1984)
• Cal (1984)
• The Killing Fields (1984)
• Nemo (1984)
• Mr. Love (1985)
• Dance with a Stranger (1985)
• Smooth Talk (1985)
• Revolution (1985)
• Sharma and Beyond (1986)
• Arthur's Hallowed Ground (1986)
• Absolute Beginners (1986)
• The Mission (1986)
• Knights & Emeralds (1986)
• White Mischief (1987)
• Matewan (1987)
• Hope and Glory (1987)
• Black Rainbow (1989)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
• Rock-a-Doodle (1991)
• Being Human (1993)
• Driftwood (1997)
• Clockwatchers (1997)
• Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997)

[edit] External links

• Goldcrest Films at the Internet Movie Database