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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE) was a London-based film studio, founded in 1991 as a European competitor to Hollywood, but eventually sold and merged with Universal Pictures in 1999. Among its most successful films were Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Fargo (1996). London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
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The Dutch music company PolyGram (owned by Philips) created PFE in 1991 to consolidate its existing film companies. It invested US$200 million with the intention of developing a European film studio that could produce and distribute films internationally on a scale to match the major Hollywood studios. Following the style of its music business, the company produced films through a number of creatively semi-autonomous 'labels', such as Working Title Films in the UK and Propaganda Films and Interscope Communications in the US. It also built up it own network of distribution companies. Film production within Polygram differed from traditional Hollywood studios, in that power to make ('green light') a film was not centralised in the hands of a small number of executives, but instead was decided by negotiations between producers, management and marketing. PFE President, Michael Kuhn, claimed that "movies sort of green lit themselves." PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. ...
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The company was based in the UK and invested heavily in British film making — some credit it with reviving the British film industry in the 1990s. Despite a successful production history, Philips decided to sell PFE to the drinks conglomerate Seagram in 1999. PFE's assets were merged into Seagram's existing film studio, Universal Pictures. Its library of films produced up until 1999 is now controlled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses. ...
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Production companies - Working Title Films (UK), acquired by PFE in 1991.
- Propaganda Films (US), acquired in 1991.
- Interscope Entertainment (US)
- Gramercy Pictures, mainly film distribution company.
- A&M Films
- Island Pictures
- Cinéa (France)
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References - Michael Kuhn, One Hundred Films and a Funeral: The Life and Death of Polygram Films, Thorogood, 2002. ISBN 1854182161.
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