The Geffen Film Company
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Company type | Film distributor and production company |
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Industry | Motion pictures |
Founded | 1980 |
Founder | David Geffen |
Defunct | 1998 |
Successor | DreamWorks |
Headquarters | United States |
Key people | David Geffen |
Divisions | Geffen Television |
The Geffen Film Company (also known as The Geffen Company, The Geffen Film Company, Inc., and later Geffen Pictures) was a film distributor and production company founded by David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, and future co-founder of DreamWorks. Geffen founded the company in 1980, having recruited Eric Eisner as president, and distributed its films through Warner Bros. Geffen operated it as a division of Warner Bros., and as a result, following The Geffen Film Company's shutdown in 1998, Warner Bros. now owns the company's library. However, the only Geffen Film Company title Warner Bros. does not own is the 1996 Mike Judge comedy Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, itself owned by Paramount Pictures.
The spherical Geffen Pictures logo (based on the logo of its record-label counterpart) was created by Saul Bass.
Notable films
The Geffen Company
- Personal Best (1982)
- Risky Business (1983) (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures)
- After Hours (1985)
- Lost in America (1985)
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- Men Don't Leave (1990)
Geffen Pictures
- Defending Your Life (1991)
- The Last Boy Scout (1991)
- M. Butterfly (1993)
- Interview with the Vampire (1994)
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996, co-production with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films)
- Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996, TV series)
- Joe's Apartment (1996, co-production with MTV Films)
- Michael Collins (1996)
- The Butcher Boy (1997)
External links
- Film distributors of the United States
- Film production companies of the United States
- The Geffen Film Company films
- Entertainment companies based in California
- Companies based in Los Angeles
- Entertainment companies established in 1980
- Companies disestablished in 1998
- 1980 establishments in California
- 1998 disestablishments in California
- Former Time Warner subsidiaries
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