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Super Friends, The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, Richie Rich, The Flintstone Comedy Show, Laverne and Shirley in the Army, Space Stars, The Kwicky Koala Show and Trollkins debuted in 1980 and 1981 while Taft purchased Ruby-Spears from Filmways (which was eventually absorbed into Orion Pictures the following year), making it a sister studio to Hanna-Barbera and as a result, several early-1980s series were shared between both studios.
Dec 14, 2017 · Martin Ransohoff, ‘Cincinnati Kid’ Producer and Founder of Filmways TV, Dies at 90. He was the man behind such projects as 'The Beverly Hillbillies,' 'Green Acres,' 'Save the Tiger' and ...
May 10, 2023 · Edward L. Rissien, ‘Castle Keep’ Producer and Filmways, Playboy Productions Exec, Dies at 98. A high school classmate of Cloris Leachman in Iowa, he also worked with Harry Belafonte and was ...
Dec 17, 2017 · Mr. Ransohoff and Filmways also produced another acclaimed movie about the absurdities of war, “Catch-22,” released in 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War. Other movies Filmways produced ...
Filmways was a television and film production company incorporated in 1958. They were best known for producing many of the CBS rural comedies of the 1960s. In 1982, Filmways was acquired by Orion Pictures and reorganized as Orion Pictures Corporation soon afterwards. Filmways' subsidiary companies included:
Background: Filmways Pictures was a film studio that was a division of Filmways Television that was founded in 1980 from the acquisition of American International Pictures in 1979 and was folded into Orion Pictures in 1982. Filmways had been producing films, prior to their acquisition of AIP, since 1967 and also owned film distributor Sigma III Corporation. Filmways, Inc. was later reincorporated as "Orion Pictures Corporation" in June of that same year. Currently most of the Filmways film libra
On October 7, 2020, four decades after AIP was bought by and merged with Filmways, MGM announced that they were reviving the AIP brand as a label for films. The current 2021 logo reuses the old 'a' from the logos used from 1968 to 1980, but now the circle has been changed to a globe with the United States of America in the centre, also the letter 'I' and 'P' is added besides the 'a'.
