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  1. PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Records & 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 Company Ltd ...

  2. A list of films produced by the former British studio PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and its subsidiaries. The category includes films from Atlantic Entertainment Group, G Gramercy Pictures, Interscope Communications, ITC Entertainment and Working Title Films.

    • Hollandsche Decca Distributie (HDD), 1929–1950
    • Philips Phonografische Industrie (PPI), 1950–1962
    • GPG and Polygram, 1962–1980
    • Reorganization, 1980–1999
    • Polygram Entertainment

    In 1929, Decca Records (London) licensed record shop owner H.W. Van Zoelen as a distributor in the Netherlands. By 1931, his company Hollandsche Decca Distributie (HDD) had become exclusive Decca distributor for all of the Netherlands and its colonies. Over the course of the 1930s, HDD put together its own facilities for A&R, recording, and manufac...

    In the 1940s, the record business was spread out within Philips: research in the Eindhoven labs, development elsewhere in Eindhoven, recording in Hilversum, manufacturing in Doetinchem, distribution from Amsterdam, and exports from Eindhoven. During the late 1940s, Philips combined its various music businesses into Philips Phonografische Industrie ...

    In 1962, PPI and DGG formed the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG) as a joint-venture holding company, with Philips taking a 50% share in DGG and Siemens a 50% share in PPI. In 1971, the UK record labels of Philips, Fontana, Mercury, and Vertigo were amalgamated into a new company called Phonogram, Ltd. In 1972, the Grammophon-Philips Group reorganized...

    Before 1978, with the acquisition of UDC, the distribution organization was too large and PolyGram was losing money. When its North Americanoperations were running at full capacity, PolyGram expanded aggressively, and would press large quantities of records without knowing the demand. In late 1979, PolyGram was caught off guard by the sudden end of...

    Universal Music Group (UMG) had been dabbling in the documentary field having a hand in producing of 2015 Amy, Amy Winehouse documentary, and HBO's Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. In January 2017, UMG hired David Blackman to head its newly formed film and TV unit and reports to Universal Music Publishing Group chairman/CEO Jody Gerson and UMG Executi...

  3. Polygram Entertainment is the film and television arm of Universal Music Group, the world leader in music-based entertainment. Built on the foundation of the world’s most comprehensive and storied music catalog, Polygram Entertainment develops, produces, and finances music-driven content that inspires and engages fans of all ages around the ...

  4. Nov 4, 2022 · Costing just under $6m, it took $62m worldwide and meant that Polygram Filmed Entertainment (PFE) had arrived – but it had quite a story ahead of it. I spoke to its former head Michael Kuhn, who filled us in on the gensis of Polygram Filmed Entertainment and how he ended up running it.

  5. Oct 18, 1996 · PolyGram Filmed Entertainment is a production company based in Universal City, California. Discover new TV shows and movies from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and where you can watch them.

  6. 100 Films and a Funeral: Directed by Michael McNamara. With Stephan Elliott, Jodie Foster, Geoffrey Gilmore, Gilles Jacob. This documentary covers the life and death of London-based Polygram Filmed Entertainment, responsible for such noted hit films of the 1990s as Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and The Usual Suspects (1995).