PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment logo, used from 1997 until 1999 | |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Predecessor | Casablanca Filmworks |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Founder | Peter Guber |
| Defunct | 1999 |
| Fate | Acquired by Seagram and folded into Universal Pictures; most of the pre-April 1996 library sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Some of its North American distribution assets sold to USA Networks ITC library sold to Carlton Communications |
| Successors | Studio: Universal Pictures USA Films Focus Features PolyGram Entertainment Library: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (pre-April 1996 films with exceptions) Universal Pictures (post-March 1996 films with exceptions and some pre-April 1996 films) ITV Studios (ITC Entertainment library with exceptions) |
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| Divisions | PolyGram Films PolyGram Film Distribution PolyGram Television PolyGram Video PolyGram Visual Programming |
| Subsidiaries | Gramercy Pictures Working Title Films Propaganda Films Interscope Communications ITC Entertainment |
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Record & Filmworks, PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a film production company founded in 1975 as an American film studio, which became a European competitor to Hollywood within two decades, but was eventually sold to Seagram in 1998 and was folded into Universal Pictures a year later. Among its most successful and well known films were The Deep (1977), Midnight Express (1978), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Flashdance (1983), Batman (1989), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Trainspotting (1996), Dead Man Walking (1995), The Big Lebowski (1998), Fargo (1996), The Usual Suspects (1995), The Game (1997), Candyman (1992) and Notting Hill (1999).