PolyGram Filmed Entertainment  

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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE) (aka PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures) was a film studio, founded in 1980, which became a European competitor to Hollywood, but eventually sold to Universal Pictures in 1998 and folded in 1999.

Among its most successful films were Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), Fargo (1996), Trainspotting (1996) and Notting Hill (1999).

Selected films

Among the films directly produced by PFE were:

• Endless Love (1981) (distributed by Universal Pictures)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981) (distributed by Universal Pictures)
• Missing (1982) (distributed by Universal Pictures)
• Deadly Blessing (1981) (distributed by United Artists)
• Flashdance (1983) (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
• A Chorus Line (1985) (distributed by Columbia Pictures and Embassy Pictures)
• Clue (1985) (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
• Batman (1989, plus sequels in 1992, 1995, and 1997) (distributed by Warner Bros.)
• Backbeat (1994)
• Land and Freedom (1995)
• Jack & Sarah (1995, co-production with Granada Productions and Le Studio Canal +)
• Home for the Holidays (1995) (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
• When We Were Kings (1996)
• Trainspotting (1996) (distributed by Miramax Films in the United States)
• Eddie (1996) (co-production with Island Pictures and distributed by Hollywood Pictures)
• The Relic (1997) (distributed by Paramount Pictures in the US)
• Spice World (1997) (distributed by Columbia Pictures in the Americas)
• Hard Rain (1998) (distributed by Paramount Pictures in the US)
• Barney's Great Adventure (1998) (co-production with Lyrick Studios)
• Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) (co-production with Summit Entertainment and distributed by Gramercy Pictures in the US)
• Return to Paradise (1998)
• Arlington Road (1999, US rights owned by Screen Gems)

Working Title Films

• Drop Dead Fred (1991)
• London Kills Me (1991)
• Map of the Human Heart (1992)
• Posse (1993)
• The Young Americans (1993)
• Romeo Is Bleeding (1994)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) (distributed by Warner Bros. in the US)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• Dead Man Walking (1995)
• French Kiss (1995) (distributed by 20th Century Fox in the US)
• Fargo (1996)
• Bean (1997)
• The Borrowers (1998)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Elizabeth (1998)
• Notting Hill (1999)

Propaganda Films

• Wild at Heart (1990)
• Candyman (1992) (co-production with TriStar Pictures)
• Bob Roberts (1992)
• Kalifornia (1993)
• A Pig's Tale (1995)
• Barb Wire (1996)
• Sleepers (1996) (co-production with Warner Bros.)
• The Game (1997)
• Being John Malkovich (1999)

Interscope

• The Air Up There (1994, with Hollywood Pictures)
• Terminal Velocity (1994, with Hollywood Pictures)
• Jumanji (1995, with TriStar Pictures)
• Operation Dumbo Drop (1995, with Walt Disney Pictures)
• Mr. Holland's Opus (1995, with Hollywood Pictures in The US)
• Kazaam (1996, with Touchstone Pictures in The US)
• What Dreams May Come (1998)
• Very Bad Things (1998)
• Pitch Black (2000)

Gramercy Pictures

• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Double Dragon (1994)
• Mallrats (1995)
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

See also

• 100 Films and a Funeral, a documentary film about the rise and fall of PFE.