The Geffen Film Company
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| Film distributor and production company | |
| Industry | Motion pictures |
| Successor | DreamWorks |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Founder | David Geffen |
| Defunct | 1998 |
| Headquarters | United States |
Key people | David Geffen |
| Divisions | Geffen Television |
The Geffen Film Company (also known as The Geffen Company, The Geffen Film Company, Inc., and later Geffen Pictures) was a film distributor and production company founded by David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, and future co-founder of DreamWorks. Geffen founded the company in 1980, having recruited Eric Eisner as president, and distributed its films through Warner Bros. Geffen operated it as a division of Warner Bros., and as a result, following The Geffen Film Company's shutdown in 1998, Warner Bros. now owns the company's library. However, the only Geffen Film Company title Warner Bros. does not own is the 1996 Mike Judge comedy Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, itself owned by Paramount Pictures.
The spherical Geffen Pictures logo (based on the logo of its record-label counterpart) was created by Saul Bass.
Notable films
The Geffen Company
- Personal Best (1982)
- Risky Business (1983) (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures)
- After Hours (1985)
- Lost in America (1985)
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- Men Don't Leave (1990)
Geffen Pictures
- Defending Your Life (1991)
- The Last Boy Scout (1991)
- M. Butterfly (1993)
- Interview with the Vampire (1994)
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996, co-production with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films)
- Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996, TV series)
- Joe's Apartment (1996, co-production with MTV Films)
- Michael Collins (1996)
- The Butcher Boy (1997)
External links
- The Geffen Film Company at the Internet Movie Database
- Geffen Pictures at the Internet Movie Database