PolyGram Filmed Entertainment [SEP] dissolved or abolished
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a British-American film studio founded in 1980 which became a European competitor to Hollywood, but was eventually sold to Seagram Company Ltd. in 1998 and was folded in 1999. Among its most successful and well known films were "An American Werewolf in London" (1981), "Flashdance" (1983), "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994), "Dead Man Walking" (1995)
Orion library. MGM via Polygram Entertainment did not acquire the Hemdale films, (which include "The Terminator", "Hoosiers", and "Platoon") or the Nelson films (including the "Bill & Ted" films), until MGM via Polygram Entertainment bought the pre-1996 library of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, which included both companies' libraries, although the television and digital rights to certain Nelson films are now held by Paramount Television, with television syndication handled on behalf of Paramount Television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.