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Vestron Video logo, used from 1982 to 1986. The current Vestron Video logo used by Lionsgate is similar to this one. 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.
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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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 ...
Vestron Video formed their international division Vestron Video International in 1981, including a UK subsidiary. In May 1990, HTV , the ITV franchise holder for Wales and the West of England, acquired Vestron UK and renamed the company to First Independent Films.
Artisan Entertainment (formerly known as U.S.A. Home Video, International Video Entertainment (IVE) and LIVE Entertainment) was an American film studio and home video company. It was considered one of the largest mini-major film studios [ 1 ] until it was purchased by later mini-major film studio Lions Gate Entertainment in 2003.
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.