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Wayne and producer Robert Fellows founded Batjac in 1952 as Wayne/Fellows Productions. When Fellows left the company several years later, Wayne renamed the corporation after a fictitious trading company mentioned in the film Wake of the Red Witch (1948).
Sep 30, 2010 · John Wayne took the name of his production company, Batjac, from this film's shipping firm. The original spelling though was "Batjak", a likely portmanteau of "Batavia" and "Jayakarta", both being the old names of the capital of the Dutch East Indies at the time
Dec 14, 2012 · Wayne decided to produce the movie with his own production company, Batjac, and Warner Bros. put up $7,000,000 to finance it. “I’ve been to Vietnam, and I’ve talked to the men there, and I don’t have the slightest doubt about the correctness of what we are doing,” Wayne said.
In 1956 the production company became Batjac Productions, the banner under which Wayne would produce nearly 30 more films before his death. Batjac was a misspelling of Batak, a reference from a 1948 film Wayne made at Republic, Wake of the Red Witch, with his recurring leading lady Gail Russell.
Apr 3, 2014 · Over the years, he operated several different production companies, including John Wayne Productions, Wayne-Fellows Productions and Batjac Productions. Wayne's career as an actor took...
Jun 17, 2012 · Gretchen is the owner and president of Batjac Productions Inc. -- the film company Wayne founded in 1951 and which his son Michael, Gretchen's husband, ran for more than 30 years until his death...
Made by Wayne-Fellows Productions, co-owned by John Wayne (who took over the company at that time, renaming it Batjac), The High and the Mighty was distributed by Warner Bros. The Academy screening will take place on Thursday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
