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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.
Polygram Entertainment is the film and television arm of Universal Music Group, the world leader in music-based entertainment. Built on the foundation of the world’s most comprehensive and storied music catalog, Polygram Entertainment develops, produces, and finances music-driven content that inspires and engages fans of all ages around the world.
Oct 3, 2019 · 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 eventu
Aug 7, 2017 · This paper examines the origins of this production strategy between 1988 and 1993. During these six years, Working Title was transformed from an independently owned and managed production company which largely produced Channel 4-funded ‘social art cinema’ to a subsidiary label of the nascent film studio, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE).
PolyGram Video was the home entertainment arm of the Dutch-German media conglomerate PolyGram N.V. Headquartered in Baarn, a town near Hilversum (which is often cited as the Netherlands' media center), the company distributed a majority of the PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library, music videos related to labels owned or distributed by PolyGram, and libraries of other companies and brands.
It soon became a division of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. In 1999, after Seagram merged PolyGram into Universal Pictures , Interscope Communications was sold to USA Networks and merged into the recently formed USA Films, which in 2002, would later be merged with other film labels after being acquired by Universal to become Focus Features .
Apr 22, 2020 · His article ‘PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films: the making of a film studio and its production label’, was published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 38: 3 (2018), pp.555-83.
