Studio
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
2 titles
- Founded: 1975
- Nationality:
United States·
United Kingdom - Headquarters: Universal City, California
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Record & Filmworks, PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a British-American film production company founded in 1975 as an American film studio, which became a European competitor to Hollywood within two decades. Eventually sold to Seagram in 1998 and was folded into Universal Pictures in 1999.
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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Record & Filmworks, PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a British-American film production company founded in 1975 as an American film studio, which became a European competitor to Hollywood within two decades. Eventually sold to Seagram in 1998 and was folded into Universal Pictures in 1999. 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), Candyman (1992), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Dead Man Walking (1995), Fargo (1996), Trainspotting (1996), The Game (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Notting Hill (1999), and Pitch Black (2000).
