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Vestron was founded in 1981 by Austin Owen Furst Jr. (born 1943), an executive at HBO, who was hired to dismantle the assets of Time-Life Films.Furst bought the video rights of the film library, which also included several productions for HBO (then-owned by Time-Life) as well as films HBO had invested seed money in, for himself and decided to form a home entertainment company with these assets.
GL Video (Early-1980s) Vestron (Mid-Late 1980s) Box Office Int. Video (Mid-1980s) RCA/Columbia Pictures/Hoyts Video (Mid-Late 1980s) Videoscope (Early 1980s) Syme Home Video (Mid 1980s) Electric (Blue) Video (although the company was actually UK-based) Sports World Cinema; VCL Video; Movies at Midnight; Seven Keys Video
Vestron Pictures Inc. was an American film studio and distributor, a former division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., that is best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing. [ 1 ] Vestron also has had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures , a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video, headed by Lawrence Kasanoff , who would later go ...
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The relics of Saint Valentin de Terni, the patron of the St Valentine's Day, are in the Catholic church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Jean-l’Evangéliste, located in the southern France town of Roquemaure, Gard. The celebrations of "Fête des Amoureux" takes place every two years on the Sunday closest to February 14. The village gets ...
However, it would lose the home video rights to the Rankin/Bass library in 1998 to Sony Wonder and Golden Books Family Entertainment. [ e ] The company also released several VHS releases of British kids' cartoons and animation in the US (i.e., Roobarb , Wil Cwac Cwac , James the Cat and Fireman Sam ), as well as some Japanese anime , such as ...
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Columbia TriStar Home Video's UK operations purchased First Independent's assets and remaining library shortly afterwards and folded the theatrical and home video divisions under their banner. Sony continued to use First Independent as a secondary brand for its archived titles on VHS and DVD, although no new products were released under the name.