The Geffen Film Company

The Geffen Company
The Geffen Film Company, Inc.
Geffen Pictures
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Company type	Film distributor and production company
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)

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