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Leonard Hill Films

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Hill-Fields Entertainment
FormerlyHill-Mandelker Films (1981-1985)
Leonard Hill Films (1985-1994)
Industrytelevision
Founded1981
Defunct1997
Fatemerged with O'Connor Film and Company; assessments acquired by Pearson Television
SuccessorHill-O'Connor (1997-2000)
Pearson Television (1997-2001)
FremantleMedia (2001-present)
HeadquartersUnited States
Key people
Leonard Hill, Phillip Mandelker
Productstelevision, made-for-TV movies
ParentACI Worldwide Distribution

Hill-Fields Entertainment was a production company that was founded in 1981 as Hill-Mandelker Films with producers Leonard Hill and Phillip Mandelker. When Mandelker died in 1984, the company became Leonard Hill Films. The company launched ACI Worldwide Distribution in 1988 to distribute its productions. In 1994, Joel Fields joined the company and it became Hill-Fields Entertainment. Both companies were acquired by Pearson PLC in 1996, the production company was folded in 1997. ACI was continued as a subsidiary of Pearson Television, until 1999 when it was folded. Today the majority of the library is now owned by FremantleMedia.

Productions

  • as Hill/Mandelker Films
    • as Leonard Hill Films
      • as Hill/Fields Entertainment
  • *Dreams Don't Die
  • *The Cartier Affair (co-production with B&E Enterprises/King Features Entertainment)
  • **Rags to Riches (co-production with New World Television) NBC
  • "**Earth Angel (co-production with Ron Gilbert Associates)
    • The Long Hot Summer
    • Passion and Paridise
    • Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys
    • Vanished Without a Trace
    • The Insiders ABC
      • Vows of Deception (co-production with Frank Abnatemarco Productions)
      • Falling from the Sky (co-production with Pacific Motion Pictures/ACI Worldwide Distribution)