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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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In March 1979, Fox purchased Magnetic Video, which was a small OTC traded public company (Blay was a major shareholder and Chairman). In January 1982, shortly after Blay's departure from the company, Fox reorganized Magnetic Video into 20th Century-Fox Video. Around the same time, Magnetic Video began to issue films in laserdisc format.
Las aventuras del Gordo Porcel (The adventures of Porcel the Fat Man) was the title of the one dedicated to Jorge. The usual play -with drawings by Francisco Mazza- consisted of el Gordo getting in trouble and several confusions, during the time in between the feasts of food prepared by his mother, who he lived with.
El Gordo y La Flaca first aired on September 21, 1998, on Univision, hosted by Raúl De Molina ("El Gordo") [1] and Cuban model Lili Estefan ("La Flaca"), the niece of music mogul and producer Emilio Estefan, the husband of singer/songwriter Gloria Estefan.
The film was given a limited release in the United States by Vestron Pictures in June 1988. It grossed $808,114 at the box office. [5] It was released by Vestron Video the same year on VHS in both R-rated and Unrated editions. [citation needed] The film's budget was $3.5 million. [1]