Hollywood Pictures

: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. The goal of the studio was to allow younger and up-and-coming producers an outlet to make experimental and moderately budgeted movies.
==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. The studio's name was chosen by Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, initially for what would eventually become Touchstone, but they opted to instead use it for another studio. Danny Elfman composed the fanfare for the opening logo. The company's first release was Arachnophobia.
Eisner, Disney's then-chief, intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, but in its later 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 	Silver Screen Partners
April 5, 1991 	The Marrying Man 	Silver Screen Partners
May 3, 1991 	One Good Cop 	Silver Screen Partners
July 26, 1991 	V.I. Warshawski 	Silver Screen Partners
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 	Touchwood Pacific Partners
May 22, 1992 	Encino Man 	Touchwood Pacific Partners
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 	Touchwood Pacific Partners I
January 22, 1993 	Aspen Extreme 	Touchwood Pacific Partners I
March 5, 1993 	Swing Kids 	Touchwood Pacific Partners I
March 26, 1993 	Born Yesterday 	Touchwood Pacific Partners I
April 16, 1993 	Blood In Blood Out 	Touchwood Pacific Partners I
May 28, 1993 	Super Mario Bros. 	Cinergi Pictures, Allied Filmmakers, and Lightmotive
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 	Caravan Pictures
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 	Caravan Pictures
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' 	Caravan Pictures and Roger Birnbaum Productions
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	Cinergi Pictures
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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