"Seven Arts Logo Compilation" made by TR3X PR0DÚCTÍ0NS, 07/12/2023.
This logo compilation (or logo history) looks at three companies called Seven Arts, and the first of which had a joint-venture with Bryanston (British film company) and merged with Warner Bros. in 1967. The companies are listed below, and keep in mind that they are not related.
01) Seven Arts Productions (1957-67). This was an American production company which made films for release by other studios (e.g. Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox). It was founded in 1957 by Eliot Hyman, Ray Stark, and Norman Kat, and they released their first film "Gun Runners" under United Artists in 1958; some of their filmography includes West Side Story (1961 - UA), Gigot (1962 - TCF), Is Paris Burning (1966 - Paramount) and many more. Seven Arts was also involved with television distribution, and Warner Bros. licensed the TV rights to its post-1949 library to Seven Arts in 1960. The company was defunct in 1967, when Seven Arts acquired the controlling interest in Warner Bros. Pictures from Jack L. Warner, and 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.
02) Seven Arts Pictures (1990-92). This was a short-lived B-movie distribution company established on 19th July 1990, headed by Mario F. Kassar (co-founder of Carolco Pictures). This joint-venture of Carolco Pictures and New Line Cinema released eleven films from 1990-92, and their filmography includes Repossessed (1990), Defenseless (1991) and Light Sleeper (1992).
03) Seven Arts Entertainment (1992-). This is a British independent film production company known as Peter Hoffman Productions in its first five years of existence. The company was founded by Peter Hoffman, who changed the name to Seven Arts around the late 1990s, the time when it was co-owned by CanWest Global Communications. They have released a few films in their catalogue, some of which includes Shattered Image (1998), An American Rhapsody (2001) and the Pool Boys (2010).
Timestamps
0:00 Seven Arts (1957-67)
1:31 Warner Bros-Seven Arts (1967-70)
2:15 Seven Arts (1990-92)
2:57 Seven Arts (1992-)
3:59 Credits
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