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Vestron Pictures Inc. was an American film studio and distributor, a former division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., that is best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing. [1] Vestron also has had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures , a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video, headed by Lawrence Kasanoff , who would later go on ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Vestron Pictures was the motion picture arm of Vestron Video, set up in January 1986. Today, the Vestron library is owned by Lionsgate Films via their acquisition of Artisan Entertainment. Perhaps their best known and successful release is Dirty Dancing, released in 1987. Logo (May 1986-1992, April 27, 2021)
Scott Mednick & Associates. Typography: Custom. Launched: January 1986. Inverted version. Horizontal version. Inverted horizontal version. On-Screen logo.
Vestron Video logo, used from 1981 to 1986. The current Vestron Video logo used by Lionsgate is similar to this one. Vestron was founded in 1981 by Austin Owen Furst Jr. (born 1943), an executive at HBO, who was hired to dismantle the assets of Time-Life Films.
Nickname: "The Red Circle-V". Logo: Same as the third Vestron Video logo, except "VIDEO" is replaced by "PICTURES". Variants: On Young Guns (1991 VHS), the logo is sped-up slightly t o plaster the 20th Century Fox logo.
