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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 ...
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Learn about the history, logo, and films of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, a British film studio that was acquired by Seagram and folded into Universal Pictures in 2000. See variants, techniques, and audio of the logo that was used from 1992 to 1999.
A list of films produced by the former British studio PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and its subsidiaries. The category includes films from Atlantic Entertainment Group, G Gramercy Pictures, Interscope Communications, ITC Entertainment and Working Title Films.
PolyGram Entertainment produces music-driven content based on the world's most comprehensive and storied music catalog. Explore the projects that explore how music shapes culture, such as documentaries on Donna Summer, Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, and more.
- Hollandsche Decca Distributie (HDD), 1929–1950
- Philips Phonografische Industrie (PPI), 1950–1962
- GPG and Polygram, 1962–1980
- Reorganization, 1980–1999
- Polygram Entertainment
In 1929, Decca Records (London) licensed record shop owner H.W. Van Zoelen as a distributor in the Netherlands. By 1931, his company Hollandsche Decca Distributie (HDD) had become exclusive Decca distributor for all of the Netherlands and its colonies. Over the course of the 1930s, HDD put together its own facilities for A&R, recording, and manufac...
In the 1940s, the record business was spread out within Philips: research in the Eindhoven labs, development elsewhere in Eindhoven, recording in Hilversum, manufacturing in Doetinchem, distribution from Amsterdam, and exports from Eindhoven. During the late 1940s, Philips combined its various music businesses into Philips Phonografische Industrie ...
In 1962, PPI and DGG formed the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG) as a joint-venture holding company, with Philips taking a 50% share in DGG and Siemens a 50% share in PPI. In 1971, the UK record labels of Philips, Fontana, Mercury, and Vertigo were amalgamated into a new company called Phonogram, Ltd. In 1972, the Grammophon-Philips Group reorganized...
Before 1978, with the acquisition of UDC, the distribution organization was too large and PolyGram was losing money. When its North Americanoperations were running at full capacity, PolyGram expanded aggressively, and would press large quantities of records without knowing the demand. In late 1979, PolyGram was caught off guard by the sudden end of...
Universal Music Group (UMG) had been dabbling in the documentary field having a hand in producing of 2015 Amy, Amy Winehouse documentary, and HBO's Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. In January 2017, UMG hired David Blackman to head its newly formed film and TV unit and reports to Universal Music Publishing Group chairman/CEO Jody Gerson and UMG Executi...
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.
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a British-American film studio founded in 1980 which became a European competitor to Hollywood, but was eventually sold to Seagram Company Ltd. in 1998 and was folded in 2000.
