Weintraub Entertainment Group

Weintraub Entertainment Group
Company typePrivate corporation
IndustryMotion picture
FoundedJuly 1, 1986 (1986-07-01)
FounderJerry Weintraub
DefunctSeptember 30, 1990 (1990-09-30)
FateBankruptcy
SuccessorsCompany:
Columbia Pictures
Library:
Sony Pictures
Paramount Pictures
(through Melange Pictures)
(television and online streaming rights excluding The Big Blue)
StudioCanal
(through Lumiere Pictures and Television)
(Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment library only)
Key people
Jerry Weintraub, Chair/CEO
Kenneth Kleinberg, president/COO
Andrew Susskind, TV president
Productsfilms
Servicesdistribution
OwnerThe Coca-Cola Company
US Tobacco Company
Columbia Pictures (15%; 1987–1989)
Warner Bros. (15%; 1989–1990)

Weintraub Entertainment Group (WEG) was a film production company considered to be a mini-major studio founded by Jerry Weintraub.