Seven Arts Productions
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Seven Arts Productions was a production company which made films for release by other studios. It was founded in 1957 by Eliot Hyman, Ray Stark, and Norman Katz.[1]
History
Seven Arts' first film was The Gun Runners, released by United Artists.
Among its productions were
Over time it expanded its role, becoming equity investors with other studios and partnering with British horror film company Hammer Film Productions on many projects. It also retained ancillary rights on new productions surrendered on earlier films, including Seven Days in May (1964) and Promise Her Anything (1965) for release by Paramount.
Seven Arts also distributed feature films and TV programs for television. Warner Bros. licensed the TV rights to its post-1949 library to Seven Arts in 1960. Seven Arts made similar deals with
In 1967, Seven Arts Productions acquired the controlling interest in Warner Bros. Pictures from Jack L. Warner for $32 million.[2] The companies were merged as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. It was rebranded as Warner Bros. Inc. after Kinney National Company bought the company in 1969.[3]
Other uses
Neither the later Seven Arts Pictures nor the defunct releasing company "Seven Arts", an early 1990s joint venture between Carolco Pictures and New Line Cinema (the latter which subsequently merged into Warner Bros.), is related to the original Seven Arts Productions.
Select filmography
- The Gun Runners (1958); with United Artists
- Thunder in the Sun (1959); with Paramount Pictures
- Ten Seconds to Hell (1959); with United Artists
- The Misfits (1961); with United Artists
- By Love Possessed (1961); with United Artists
- West Side Story (1961); with United Artists
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1961)
- The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961); with Warner Bros.
- Twentieth Century Fox
- MGM
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); with Warner Bros.
- Two for the Seesaw (1962); with United Artists
- MGM
- The Wild Affair (1963); with Bryanston Films & British Lion Films
- MGM
- Rampage (1963); with Warner Bros.
- MGM
- MGM
- MGM
- Allied Artists Pictures
- John Frankenheimer Productions and Paramount Pictures
- MGM
- Promise Her Anything (1965); with Paramount Pictures
- Hammer Films
- MGM
- Is Paris Burning? (1966); with Paramount Pictures
- The Defector (1966)
- Hammer Films
- Hammer Films
- The Frozen Dead (1966)
- Twentieth Century Fox
- This Property Is Condemned (1966); with Paramount Pictures
- Assault on a Queen (1966); with Paramount Pictures
- Hammer Films
- 20th Century Fox
- Hammer Films
- You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
- Drop Dead Darling (1966); with Paramount Pictures
- Once Before I Die (1966)
- Hammer Films
- Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967); with Paramount Pictures
- Hammer Films
- MGM
- The Shuttered Room (1967)
- It! (1967)
- Hammer Films
- Hammer Films
- Hammer Films
- Hammer Films
- Hammer Films
Theatre credits
- The World of Suzie Wong (1958–60)
- Everybody Loves Opal (1961)
- Funny Girl (1964–67)
- Any Wednesday (1964–66)
- The Owl and the Pussycat(1964–65)
References
- ^ ISBN 9780520282636.
- ^ Warner Sperling, Cass (Director) (2008). The Brothers Warner (DVD film documentary). Warner Sisters, Inc. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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