Vestron Video
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Dirty Dancing...despite the film's huge monetary success, Vestron followed it up with a series of flops, and ran out of money. Vestron's parent company Vestron Inc. went bankrupt in 1990, and was bought out in January 1991 by LIVE Entertainment for $26... In this article: Dirty Dancing, Patrick Swayze, Eleanor Bergstein, Jennifer Grey, Vestron Inc., Kenny Ortega, Emile Ardolino, and Robbie Gould |
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
The Last Chase
...F-86 Sabre jet are called into service to chase down and destroy Franklyn Hart. It was originally released on VHS and Laserdisc by Vestron Video which was sold to LIVE Entertainment in 1991, LIVE Entertainment changed their name to Artisan...
In this article: The Last Chase, LIVE Entertainment, Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Korean War, F-86 Sabre, and Laserdisc
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Family Home Entertainment
...for most of the seasonal Rankin/Bass television specials aired on CBS, after Live, FHE's parent company, acquired Vestron Video. The company has also released several VHSs of British kids' cartoons in the US since the 1980s (i.e., Will Quack...
In this article: Family Home Entertainment, MGM, LIVE Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment, International Video Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, Will Quack Quack, US, and CBS
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Vestron Video
Vestron Video was the main subsidiary of Vestron, Inc., a home video company based in Stamford, Connecticut that was active from the early 1980s to mid-1990s. Founded by former Time-Life executive Austin O. Furst in 1981, it is considered to...
In this article: B movies, Bankruptcy, Vestron Pictures, LIVE Entertainment, New York Stock Exchange, Warner Brothers, Dirty Dancing, Earth Girls Are Easy, and Dirty Dancing
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Eating Raoul
...front of their brand new restaurant, with the caption, "Bon Appetit." Bland Ambition was about 10 days from the start of filming when Vestron withdrew its financial backing. Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel later appeared together as Mr. and...
In this article: Paul Bartel, Eating Raoul, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, DVD, and Vestron
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Artisan Entertainment
...Connection ''. Its third feature film was Quentin Tarantino's ''Reservoir Dogs. In 1992, the company took over Vestron after its downfall; Vestron had been known best for Dirty Dancing, which had been the second highest-grossing independent...
In this article: Carolco Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, LIVE Entertainment, Family Home Entertainment, Tenchi Muyo!, Vestron, International Video Entertainment, Short Time, B-movies, and Ryo-Ohki
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Guardian Unlimited | September 21, 2009
Brigitte Bardot
...boomerang, to Europe. Brigitte Bardot dances barefoot in And God Created Woman. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext / Allstar Collection/VESTRON In 1958, Raymond Cartier, then editor of Paris-Match, dedicated eight pages to an investigation of "le...
In this article: Brigitte Bardot, Simone de Beauvoir, And God Created Woman, Francoise Sagan, Nicole Farhi, Paris-Match, Victoria Beckham, Jane Birkin, and Sophia Loren
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Last dance with Patrick Swayze
...16 September 2009 12.57 BST The perfect dance partner ... Patrick Swayze with Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing (1987). Photograph: Vestron/Everett/Rex Features Before he was an actor, Patrick Swayze was a ballet dancer. He began at his...
In this article: Patrick Swayze, Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey, Ghost, and The Times
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Class of 1984
...has the Glenn Ford role, Van Patten has Vic Morrow's, and Fox is in Sidney Poitier's. The movie was initially released on home video via Vestron Video during the 1980s and was later withdrawn. In 2006 , Anchor Bay Entertainment released the...
In this article: Class of 1984, Blackboard Jungle, DVD, Mark L. Lester, Michael J. Fox, Timothy Van Patten, Class of 1999, and Perry King
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Vestron Pictures
...see Vestron Video. Vestron Pictures was a film studio and distributor of the late 1980s, and a division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing. The company was a spin-off of the earlier...
In this article: Vestron Pictures, LIVE Entertainment, and United Artists
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | February 14, 2009
Dirty Dancing: The classic story
...said no," says Bergstein. "But I'm like a dog with a bone when I want something so I just kept going and going." Eventually, Vestron, a small studio, took a chance on Bergstein's script, but neither she nor they had high hopes. "We...
In this article: Eleanor Bergstein, It's My Turn, Glenn Close, Barack Obama, Theatre Royal, Hollywood, Sydney, London, and Dog
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Vestron Video was the main subsidiary of Vestron, Inc., a home video company based in Stamford, Connecticut that was active from the early 1980s to mid-1990s. It is considered to have been a pioneer in the Home Video Market. The company was responsible for releases on VHS videocassette of mostly B-movies, and films from Cannon Films' library. In later years, the company began to shift towards mainstream films, including films released through their Vestron Pictures subsidiary, most notably Dirty Dancing. The company was the first company to release National Geographic videos in the late 1980s, and was the first to market with a pro wrestling video, "Pro Wrestling Illustrated Presents Lords of the Ring".
Vestron, Inc.'s subsidiaries included:
* Vestron Video
* Vestron Pictures
* Vestron Music Video
* Vestron International Group
* Vestron Video International
* Children's Video Library
* Lightning Video
* Lightning Pictures
Vestron went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1985 with what was at the time a large market cap IPO of $440MM, which was oversubscribed. The company enjoyed success for several years, at one point exceeding 10% of the US video movie market. At its high point sales approximated $350MM annually, and the company sold video movies in over 30 countries either directly or through sub licensing agreements. This was basically a rights business, built by some insightful people who appreciated the video (VCR) rights to films before the major studios did. Eventually the major studios smartened up, and film product became increasingly harder for Vestron to acquire. Also, independent producers increased the price of those available.
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