Silver Screen Partners
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Silver Screen Partners is an American film production company that was founded in 1983 by Roland W. Betts and Thomas Bernstein under the name "Silver Screen Management". The name has changed several times since.
George W. Bush was a member of the Board of Directors from 1983 to 1992. Betts and Bush were members of the same fraternity at Yale University.
[edit] History
After being president of the company Investors Film, Inc., Roland W. Betts decided to found a film production company with Thomas Bernstein. He signed a contract for several films with the then-new studio Tri-Star, which founded the previous year by Columbia Pictures (then subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company), as well as cable channel HBO.
In 1984, Michael Eisner became the new chairman of Walt Disney Company. In 1985, Disney signed a contract with Silver Screen Partners Co to produce several films. The partnership lasted until 1992. By then, more than 75 cartoon, films, had been released with Disney and its subsidiary companies Buena Vista and Touchstone Pictures.
The company has not produced or financed a film since 1992.
[edit] Sources
- George W. Bush and Hollywood by Michael J. Weldon
- Silver Screen Partners at the Internet Movie Database
- Silver Screen Partners II at the Internet Movie Database
- Silver Screen Partners III at the Internet Movie Database
- Silver Screen Partners IV at the Internet Movie Database
