PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment logo, used from 1997 until 1999 | |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Predecessor | Casablanca Records and Filmworks |
| Founded | 1975 (original) February 1987 (relaunch) |
| Founder | Peter Guber |
| Defunct | 1983 (original) 1999 (relaunch) |
| Fate | Acquired by Seagram and folded into Universal Pictures |
| Successors | Studio: Universal Pictures Library: Amazon MGM Studios (pre-April 1996 films with exceptions) Universal Pictures (post-March 1996 films with exceptions and some pre-April 1996 films) ITV Studios (ITC Entertainment library with exceptions) |
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| Divisions | PolyGram Film Distribution PolyGram Television PolyGram Video PolyGram Visual Programming |
| Subsidiaries | Gramercy Pictures Working Title Films Propaganda Films Interscope Communications ITC Entertainment |
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Record & Filmworks, PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a film production company founded in 1975 as an American film studio, which became a European competitor to Hollywood within two decades, but was eventually sold to Seagram in 1998 and was folded into Universal Pictures in 1999. Among its most successful and well known films were The Deep (1977), Midnight Express (1978), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Flashdance (1983), Batman (1989), Candyman (1992), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Dead Man Walking (1995), Fargo (1996), Trainspotting (1996), The Game (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998) and Notting Hill (1999).