Hemdale Film Corporation
American-British film production company and distributor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hemdale Film Corporation (known as Hemdale Communications after 1992) was an independent American-British film production company and distributor. The company was founded in London in 1967 as the Hemdale Company by actor David Hemmings and John Daly, naming the company from a combination of their surnames.[1] The company produced numerous acclaimed films, often in conjunction with companies such as TriStar and Orion Pictures, including The Terminator (1984), Platoon (1986) and The Last Emperor (1987), the latter two being back-to-back winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Industry | Film |
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Founded | 1967; 57 years ago (1967) (as The Hemdale Company) |
Founders | David Hemmings John Daly |
Defunct | November 1995; 28 years ago (1995-11) |
Fate | Defunct, assets acquired by Epic Productions via Consortium de Realisation |
Successor | Library: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[lower-alpha 1] (with some exceptions) |
Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States London, England, United Kingdom |
Key people | John Daly Derek Gibson Eric Parkinson |
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