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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Records & 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 Company Ltd. in 1998 and ...
Aug 15, 2024 · PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly PolyGram Movies and PolyGram Films) was a British film studio originally owned by Dutch-German conglomerate PolyGram. It was founded in February 1987 to provide funding for the PolyGram Video imprint, and in the hopes of becoming a European competitor to Hollywood.
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment films. This category is for films produced by the former British PolyGram Filmed Entertainment studio. This list also includes films from Interscope Communications when they were part of PolyGram.
Polygram Entertainment’s acclaimed, award-winning projects include the recently Emmy-nominated docuseries STAX: Soulsville U.S.A, about the legendary Memphis-based record label; docuseries James Brown: Say It Loud; Love to Love You, Donna Summer, directed by Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano; Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues from ...
Nov 4, 2022 · Its first big hit was John Landis’ An American Werewolf In London, which was a co-production with Universal Pictures. Costing just under $6m, it took $62m worldwide and meant that Polygram Filmed Entertainment (PFE) had arrived – but it had quite a story ahead of it.
100 Films and a Funeral: Directed by Michael McNamara. With Stephan Elliott, Jodie Foster, Geoffrey Gilmore, Gilles Jacob. This documentary covers the life and death of London-based Polygram Filmed Entertainment, responsible for such noted hit films of the 1990s as Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and The Usual Suspects (1995).
In just under two decades, Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, grew from a family-owned record store and studio to one of the most influential producers of soul music. The label launched the careers of Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & The M.G.’s, and Sam & Dave, and more.
