- Not to be confused with the theme park attraction Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Hollywood Pictures was one of the Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's Touchstone Pictures brand, it produced films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures.
History[]
Because of the success of Disney's mature film division Touchstone Pictures, yet another Disney film label was established as Hollywood Pictures in 1990. Danny Elfman composed the fanfare for the opening logo. The company's first release was Arachnophobia.
While then-Disney chief Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, in recent years its operations have been scaled back and its management has been merged with the flagship Walt Disney Pictures studio.
Towards the ending of the 1990s, the majority of Hollywood Pictures releases were films that got overall negative reviews, among which was An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, which won the Razzie Award for Worst Movie of 1998, with the negative stigma of the banner being likely the main reason as to why Hollywood Pictures would become eventually retired just a few years later, in 2001.
Despite this, the banner has managed to release some acclaimed titles, including its most profitable film to date, The Sixth Sense, which grossed over $200 million at the North American box office.
After being dormant since 2001, the brand was re-activated for low-budget genre films, similar to Dimension Films (once a Disney division itself, now part of The Weinstein Company) or Sony Pictures' Screen Gems (part of Columbia Pictures), News Corporation's Fox Atomic (part of Fox Searchlight Pictures), and Relativity Media's Rogue Pictures (distributed by former parent Universal Studios). The first film released by the resurrected Hollywood was the 2006 horror film Stay Alive.
This wouldn't however last very long, as after Bob Iger replaced Michael Eisner as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, in late 2005, he decided to instead focus more on reinforcing brand recognition throughout the Disney brand itself, instead of relying on other distribution labels, which was what Eisner had done through Touchstone and Miramax. This lead to the permanent retirement of Hollywood Pictures in April 27, 2007. The final film to be distributed by Hollywood Pictures was The Invisible.
List of films released by Hollywood Pictures[]
| Release date | Title | Co-Production |
|---|---|---|
| July 18, 1990 | Arachnophobia | Amblin Entertainment |
| August 17, 1990 | Taking Care of Business | Silver Screen Partners |
| February 1, 1991 | Run | |
| April 5, 1991 | The Marrying Man | |
| May 3, 1991 | One Good Cop | |
| July 26, 1991 | V.I. Warshawski | |
| January 10, 1992 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Interscope Communications and Nomura Babcock & Brown |
| February 7, 1992 | Medicine Man | Cinergi Pictures |
| March 6, 1992 | Blame It on the Bellboy | Silver Screen Partners IV |
| April 3, 1992 | Straight Talk | Touchwood Pacific Partners |
| April 24, 1992 | Passed Away | |
| May 22, 1992 | Encino Man | |
| July 17, 1992 | A Stranger Among Us | Touchwood Pacific Partners I, Propaganda Films, and Sandollar Productions |
| September 18, 1992 | Sarafina! | Miramax Films, Distant Horizon, Vanguard Films, and BBC |
| October 16, 1992 | Consenting Adults | Touchwood Pacific Partners I |
| December 4, 1992 | The Distinguished Gentleman | |
| January 22, 1993 | Aspen Extreme | |
| March 5, 1993 | Swing Kids | |
| March 26, 1993 | Born Yesterday | |
| April 16, 1993 | Blood In Blood Out | |
| May 28, 1993 | Super Mario Bros. | Cinergi Pictures and Allied Filmmakers |
| June 4, 1993 | Guilty as Sin | |
| July 2, 1993 | Son in Law | |
| August 27, 1993 | Father Hood | |
| September 8, 1993 | The Joy Luck Club | |
| September 10, 1993 | Money for Nothing | |
| December 25, 1993 | Tombstone | Cinergi Pictures |
| January 7, 1994 | The Air Up There | Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, and Nomura Babcock & Brown |
| March 4, 1994 | Angie | Caravan Pictures |
| April 8, 1994 | Holy Matrimony | Interscope Communications and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
| August 12, 1994 | In the Army Now | |
| August 19, 1994 | Color of Night | Cinergi Pictures |
| August 26, 1994 | Camp Nowhere | |
| September 14, 1994 | Quiz Show | |
| September 23, 1994 | Terminal Velocity | Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, and Nomura Babcock & Brown |
| October 21, 1994 | The Puppet Masters | |
| November 11, 1994 | The Santa Clause | Walt Disney Pictures and Outlaw Productions |
| November 23, 1994 | A Low Down Dirty Shame | Caravan Pictures |
| January 6, 1995 | Houseguest | |
| January 27, 1995 | Miami Rhapsody | |
| March 3, 1995 | Roommates | Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, and Nomura Babcock & Brown |
| March 31, 1995 | Funny Bones | |
| April 21, 1995 | While You Were Sleeping | Caravan Pictures |
| April 28, 1995 | A Pyromaniac's Love Story | |
| May 12, 1995 | Crimson Tide | Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films |
| June 30, 1995 | Judge Dredd | Cinergi Pictures |
| August 11, 1995 | Dangerous Minds | Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Via Rosa Productions |
| September 8, 1995 | The Tie That Binds | Interscope Communications and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
| September 15, 1995 | Unstrung Heroes | |
| October 4, 1995 | Dead Presidents | Caravan Pictures and Underworld Entertainment |
| October 13, 1995 | The Scarlet Letter | Cinergi Pictures |
| October 27, 1995 | Powder | Caravan Pictures |
| December 22, 1995 | Nixon | Cinergi Pictures |
| December 29, 1995 | Mr. Holland's Opus | Interscope Communications and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment; US distribution only |
| February 2, 1996 | White Squall | Largo Entertainment and Scott Free Productions |
| February 23, 1996 | Before and After | Caravan Pictures |
| April 19, 1996 | Celtic Pride | |
| May 24, 1996 | Spy Hard | |
| May 31, 1996 | Eddie | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Island Pictures |
| June 7, 1996 | The Rock | Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films |
| August 9, 1996 | Jack | Great Oaks Productions and American Zoetrope |
| September 13, 1996 | The Rich Man's Wife | Caravan Pictures |
| October 25, 1996 | The Associate | Interscope Communications and Polygram Filmed Entertainment |
| December 25, 1996 | Evita | Cinergi Pictures |
| January 24, 1997 | Prefontaine | |
| January 31, 1997 | Shadow Conspiracy | Cinergi Pictures |
| April 11, 1997 | Grosse Pointe Blank | Caravan Pictures and Roger Birnbaum Productions |
| May 30, 1997 | Gone Fishin' | |
| August 22, 1997 | G.I. Jane | Caravan Pictures, Largo Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, and Roger Birnbaum Productions |
| October 17, 1997 | Washington Square | Caravan Pictures, Roger Birnbaum Productions, and Alchemy Filmworks |
| December 25, 1997 | An American Werewolf in Paris | Cometstone Pictures |
| January 30, 1998 | Deep Rising | Cinergi Pictures |
| February 20, 1998 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn | |
| September 4, 1998 | Firelight | Carnival Films, Wind Dancer Productions, and Miramax Films |
| September 11, 1998 | Simon Birch | Caravan Pictures and Roger Birnbaum Productions |
| August 6, 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Spyglass Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company |
| September 17, 1999 | Breakfast of Champions | Summit Entertainment |
| October 1, 1999 | Mystery, Alaska | |
| February 4, 2000 | Gun Shy | Fortis Films |
| September 15, 2000 | Duets | Seven Arts Pictures and Beacon Pictures |
| April 6, 2001 | Just Visiting | Gaumont Film Company; US distribution only |
| March 24, 2006 | Stay Alive | Universal Pictures (UK distribution only), Spyglass Entertainment, and Endgame Entertainment |
| January 12, 2007 | Primeval | Pariah Entertainment |
| April 27, 2007 | The Invisible | Spyglass Entertainment |
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