Polygram Filmed Entertainment
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment was a film company created by the people at the PolyGram music company as a way to get into film production and create a viable European competitor to the Hollywood studios. Over its twenty-year existence, the company managed to produce and distribute many successful UK productions (bringing people such as Hugh Grant and Richard Curtis into worldwide fame) and producing a number of American films in joint ventures with Disney and Universal. In 1998, they were bought out by Seagram (then owners of Universal), who, after failing to find a buyer absorbed the company into Universal (though most of the company's back catalog now rests with Metro Goldwyn Mayer).
Films produced or distributed by PolyGram include:
- An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- A Chorus Line (1985)
- Batman (the four films between 1989 and 1997)
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- Candyman and its first sequel (1992, 1995)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992) - international distribution
- Posse (1993)
- Kalifornia (1993)
- Dazed and Confused (1993)
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
- Nell (1994)
- Shallow Grave (1995)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
- 12 Monkeys (1995)
- Trainspotting (1996)
- Fargo (1996)
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
- Barb Wire (1996)
- Kazaam (1996)
- Sleepers (1996)
- Bean (1997)
- A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
- The Borrowers (1997)
- The Gingerbread Man (1998)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- The Last Days of Disco (1998)
- What Dreams May Come (1998)
- Notting Hill (1999)
- Arlington Road (1999)