Line #10 Creator/HollywoodPictures


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4	Hollywood Pictures is a dormant label (or "banner" in Disney-speak) created and owned by [[Creator/{{Disney}} The Walt Disney Company]] which released films aimed for more mature audiences than the Disney branded fare, like fellow label Creator/TouchstonePictures. True to its name, most of the films made by Hollywood Pictures featured personalities who were very well-known both behind and in front of the camera.
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6	Hollywood Pictures was originally founded by Disney's then-Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner and fellow executive Jeffrey Katzenberg in 1989 to [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste take advantage of a gap left]] by [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144802/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/02/business/company-news-disney-expansion-set-film-output-to-double.html several other film companies at the time either having gone under or suffering from serious turmoil]]. (Another reason was that Disney was taking on too many film projects for Touchstone to handle, as well as internal competition between Touchstone executives; one was given command of Hollywood.) It began its life in 1990 with a number of films ranging from major flops to modest hits at the box office. Hollywood Pictures met its two breakout hits in 1992: ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'', a psychological thriller, and ''Film/EncinoMan'', which began a relationship with comedian Creator/PaulyShore that continued for much of the early-to-mid-1990s. 1993 was marked by a major hit (the western ''Film/{{Tombstone}}''), a major flop (the [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 film version]] of the long-running ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' franchise), and a critically acclaimed film (''Literature/TheJoyLuckClub''). However, none of this particular trio did much to outweigh the division's anemic box office record. In 1994, Ricardo Mestres, the first president of Hollywood Pictures, was booted out and replaced by Michael Lynton. His era was marked by an association with Creator/PolyGramFilmedEntertainment that would pay off handsomely with the release of ''Film/MrHollandsOpus'', and the era also yielded seven of the division's most critically and/or commercially successful films (''Film/QuizShow'', ''Film/DangerousMinds'', ''Film/CrimsonTide'', ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', ''Film/TheRock'' and ''Music/{{Evita}}'') along with a decidedly more controversial film called ''Film/{{Powder}}''.[[note]]Unbeknownst to the company, its director, Victor Salva, was a convicted child molester; the victim of his case, Nathan Forrest Winters, led a boycott of the film, and Salva was never rehired by Disney.[[/note]] In 1997, Lynton left Disney to work at the Penguin Group, a move that could not have come at a worse time, as, at the box office, Hollywood Pictures only scored one clear hit (''Film/GrossePointeBlank'') for that entire calendar year. This led Disney to reduce its release schedule to just three films a year, most of them utter failures. Not even the mammoth success of ''Film/TheSixthSense'', the breakout film of Creator/MNightShyamalan and the second-highest grossing film of 1999, was enough to convince Disney to give Hollywood Pictures a second chance. On April 6, 2001, Hollywood Pictures released its eightieth film, ''Film/JustVisiting'', then was quietly folded back into the main Disney company.
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8	In 2006, Disney reactivated the label as a vehicle for low-budget genre films, based on the successes of similar operations by the Hollywood majors[[note]]Creator/{{Sony}}'s Creator/ScreenGems label, the Creator/{{Universal}}-distributed Rogue Pictures, and the [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox Searchlight Pictures]] division Fox Atomic.[[/note]], after the now-disgraced Weinstein brothers left Disney, taking Creator/DimensionFilms with them. The last releases from the banner, ''Film/StayAlive2006'', ''Film/{{Primeval}}'', and ''Film/TheInvisible'', were released during this period. The label now solely exists as a unit of Disney to handle the copyrights to and distribution of Hollywood Pictures' movies but could soon replaced by the Disney logo in future physical reissues in the UK in the near future.
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11	[[folder:Films released from 1990-2001]]
12	[[index]]
13	* ''Film/TheAirUpThere''
14	* ''Film/AnAlanSmitheeFilmBurnHollywoodBurn'' (produced by Creator/CinergiPictures)
15	* ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInParis''
16	* ''Film/{{Angie}}''
17	* ''Film/{{Arachnophobia}}'' (a co-production with Creator/AmblinEntertainment, and the studio's first release)
18	* ''Film/AspenExtreme''
19	* ''Film/TheAssociate''
20	* ''Film/BeforeAndAfter''
21	* ''Film/BlameItOnTheBellboy''
22	* ''Film/BloodInBloodOut''
23	* ''Theatre/BornYesterday''
24	* ''Literature/BreakfastOfChampions''
25	* ''Film/CampNowhere''
26	* ''Film/CelticPride''
27	* ''Film/ColorOfNight''
28	* ''Film/ConsentingAdults''
29	* ''Film/CrimsonTide''
30	* ''Film/DangerousMinds''
31	* ''Film/DeadPresidents''
32	* ''Film/DeepRising''
33	* ''Film/TheDistinguishedGentleman'' (Creator/EddieMurphy's first non-Creator/{{Paramount}} film)
34	* ''Film/{{Duets}}''
35	* ''Film/{{Eddie}}''
36	* ''Film/EncinoMan''
37	* ''Music/{{Evita}}''
38	* ''Film/FatherHood''
39	* ''Film/{{Firelight}}''
40	* ''Film/GIJane''
41	* ''Film/GoneFishin''
42	* ''Film/GrossePointeBlank''
43	* ''Film/GuiltyAsSin''
44	* ''Film/GunShy''
45	* ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle''
46	* ''Film/HolyMatrimony''
47	* ''Film/{{Houseguest}}''
48	* ''Film/InTheArmyNow''
49	* ''Film/{{Jack\|1996}}''
50	* ''Literature/TheJoyLuckClub''
51	* ''Film/JudgeDredd'' (produced by Cinergi Pictures)
52	* ''Film/JustVisiting''
53	* ''Film/ALowDownDirtyShame''
54	* ''Film/TheMarryingMan'' (produced by Cinergi Pictures)
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56	* ''Film/MedicineMan''
57	* ''Film/MiamiRhapsody''
58	* ''Film/MoneyForNothing''
59	* ''Film/MrHollandsOpus''
60	* ''Film/MysteryAlaska''
61	* ''Film/{{Nixon}}''
62	* ''Film/OneGoodCop''
63	* ''Film/PassedAway''
64	* ''Film/{{Powder}}''
65	* ''Film/{{Prefontaine}}''
66	* ''Film/ThePuppetMasters''
67	* ''Film/APyromaniacsLoveStory''
68	* ''Film/QuizShow''
69	* ''Film/TheRichMansWife''
70	* ''Film/TheRock''
71	* ''Film/{{Roommates}}''
72	* ''Film/{{Run 1991}}''
73	* ''Film/TheSantaClause1'' (with Walt Disney Pictures)
74	* ''Film/{{Sarafina}}''
75	* ''Film/TheScarletLetter1995''
76	* ''Film/ShadowConspiracy'' (produced by Cinergi Pictures)
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78	* ''Film/SimonBirch''
79	* ''Film/TheSixthSense''
80	* ''Film/SonInLaw''
81	* ''Film/SpyHard''
82	* ''Film/StraightTalk''
83	* ''Film/AStrangerAmongUs''
84	* ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' (co-produced by Cinergi Pictures)
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86	* ''Film/SwingKids''
87	* ''Film/TakingCareOfBusiness''
88	* ''Film/TerminalVelocity1994''
89	* ''Film/TheTieThatBinds''
90	* ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'' (produced by Cinergi Pictures)
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92	* ''Film/UnstrungHeroes''
93	* ''Film/VIWarshawski''
94	* ''Literature/WashingtonSquare''
95	* ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping''
96	* ''Film/WhiteSquall''
97	[[/folder]]
98	[[folder:Films released post 2006 revival of Hollywood Pictures]]
99	* ''Film/TheInvisible'' (Hollywood's very last film)
100	* ''Film/{{Primeval}}''
101	* ''Film/StayAlive2006''
102	[[/index]]
103	[[/folder]]

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