Vestron Pictures
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| Motion pictures | |
| Industry | Films |
| Fate | Acquired by LIVE Entertainment |
| Successor |
LIVE Entertainment (1990–1998) Artisan Entertainment (1998–2004) Lions Gate Entertainment (2004–present) |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Defunct | 1991 |
| Headquarters | United States |
Key people | Austin O. Furst, Jr. |
| Products | Motion pictures |
| Owner | Vestron, Inc. |
| Divisions |
Vestron Video Vestron Television Vestron Video International Children's Video Library Lightning Video |
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.[1]
The company was a spin-off of the earlier video distributor, Vestron Video.[1] 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.
Productions
- Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1991) (released by Taurus Entertainment Company)
- Blue Steel (1990) (eventually acquired and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer due to financial problems)
- Catchfire (1990)
- Class of 1999 (1990) (released by Taurus Entertainment Company)
- Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
- Fear (1990)
- A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990)
- Love Hurts (1990)
- Spies on Ice (1990)
- Big Man on Campus (1989)
- Cat Chaser (1989)
- C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989)
- Dream a Little Dream (1989)
- Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, distribution only)
- Far From Home (1989)
- Hider in the House (1989)
- Little Monsters (1989, Vestron produced the film but sold the film to United Artists due to financial problems)
- Paint It Black (1989)
- Parents (1989)
- The Rainbow (1989)
- Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
- Twister (1989)
- And God Created Woman (1988)
- Amsterdamned (1988, US distribution only)
- The Beat (1988)
- Burning Secret (1988)
- Call Me (1988)
- Dangerous Curves (1988)
- The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
- Midnight Crossing (1988)
- Paramedics (1988)
- Promised Land (1988)
- Spies Inc. (1988) (released on videocassette in 1992 by LIVE Home Video, under the name Code Name: Chaos)
- The Unholy (1988)
- Waxwork (1988)
- Young Guns (1988, international and video distribution only, 20th Century Fox owned North American theatrical rights)
- Street Trash (1987)
- The Adventure of the Action Hunters (1987)
- Anna (1987)
- Blood Diner (1987)
- China Girl (1987)
- Dirty Dancing (1987)
- Malcolm (1987, US distribution only)
- Nightforce (1987)
- The Princess Bride (1987, international distribution only; 20th Century Fox owned North American theatrical rights)
- Steel Dawn (1987)
- Billy Galvin (1986)
- The Pointsman (1986)
- Slaughter High (1986)
- Alpine Fire (1985)
References
- 1 2 Special to The New York Times (February 17, 1990). "Talks on Vestron Reported". The New York Times.
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