Seven Arts Productions
Seven Arts Productions was a producer of movies for release by other studios founded in 1957 by Ray Stark and Eliot Hyman. Among its efforts were The Misfits (1961) for United Artists, Gigot (1962) for Twentieth Century-Fox, Lolita (1962) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Is Paris Burning? (1966) for Paramount Pictures.
Over time it expanded its role, becoming equity investors with other studios and partnering with legendary horror film company Hammer Film Productions on many projects. It also retained ancillary rights on new productions surrendered on earlier films, including Seven Days in May (1964) and Promise Her Anything (1965) for release by Paramount.
In 1967 it acquired a controlling interest in Warner Bros. from Jack Warner for $32 million.[1] Merged as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, the incarnation was short-lived, being acquired in 1969 by Kinney National Company and renamed simply "Warner Bros."
Neither today's Seven Arts Pictures nor the defunct releasing company "Seven Arts", an early 1990s joint venture between Carolco Pictures and New Line Cinema (the latter subsequently merged into Warner Brothers), are related to the original Seven Arts Productions.
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- ^ Warner Sperling, Cass (Director) (2008). The Brothers Warner (DVD film documentary). Warner Sisters, Inc.. http://www.warnersisters.com/ourstore.html.
