Interscope Communications

Interscope Communications (also known as Interscope Pictures) was a motion picture production company founded in 1982 by Ted Field. Its divisions included Interscope Records (which was founded in 1990 as a joint venture with Atlantic Records).
== History ==
Interscope Communications was founded in 1982 by media mogul Ted Field, who aimed to create films with mass appeal.[1] Field acted as a producer or executive producer on a number of films in Interscope's filmography. The company’s first film, Revenge of the Nerds, was released in 1984 and was a box office success.[2] That same year, Robert W. Cort, a former executive of 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures, joined Interscope and became the president of the company. Cort also co-produced a number of films.[3]
In 1990, Nomura Babcock & Brown (NBB) invested $250 million in a joint venture with The Walt Disney Company and Interscope Communications. The deal called for NBB to co-produce and finance[1] films for Interscope and Disney for four years. The joint venture produced five films between 1992 and 1995, all of which were marketed and released under two of Disney's production banners, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures.[4] The most successful film co-produced by Interscope and NBB was The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), while other films produced by the joint venture were critical and commercial failures.[3]
=== PolyGram ===
In 1992, PolyGram bought a controlling interest in Interscope Communications' film unit. Production and marketing budgets were to be paid by Polygram.[1]Robert W. Cort, president of Interscope, left the company at the end of 1995 believing that PolyGram "took on much more of a corporate environment than it had before and that consequently his role had become more like an executive's than a producer's." Field purchased Cort's 12% stake in the corporation.[3]
Beginning in 1996, Interscope began using PFE's PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Distribution for distribution.[5] In 1998, after PolyGram was bought by Universal Studios,[6] Interscope's film unit was retained as a subsidiary of Universal until it was shut down in 2003. Interscope Recordshowever, still exists as part of Universal Music Group (whose predecessor MCApurchased Atlantic's stake in the label in 1995).
== Filmography ==
Interscope Communications has produced 56 films. Of the 56 films produced, only 14 are direct-to-video or made-for-television productions. Currently, all of the films that Interscope produced for Orion Pictures, and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group between 1989 and 1991, as well as PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Gramercy Pictures before March 31, 1996, are owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which acquired the studios in separate transactions.[7]Films produced for PolyGram or Gramercy after April 1, 1996 are now owned by Universal Studios. Note that in all cases the distributor or distributors are also co-producers. The box office column reflects the worldwide gross for the theatrical release of the films in United States dollars.
Year 	Title 	Director 	Co-production company(s) 	Distributor(s) 	Box office 	Ref.
1984 	Revenge of the Nerds 	Jeff Kanew 	 	20th Century Fox 	$40,874,452 	[2]
1985 	Turk 182 	Bob Clark 	 	20th Century Fox 	$3,594,997 	[8]
1985 	American Geisha2 	Lee Phillips 	 	CBS 	— 	
1987 	Outrageous Fortune 	Arthur Hiller 	Silver Screen Partners II 	Touchstone Pictures 	$52,864,741 	[9]
1987 	Stillwatch2 	Rod Holcomb 	 	CBS 	— 	
1987 	Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise	Joe Roth 	 	20th Century Fox 	$30,063,289 	[10]
1987 	Three Men and a Baby 	Leonard Nimoy 	Silver Screen Partners III 	Touchstone Pictures 	$167,780,960 	[11]
1988 	The Seventh Sign 	Carl Schultz 	 	TriStar Pictures 	$18,875,011 	[12]
1988 	Cocktail 	Roger Donaldson 	Silver Screen Partners III 	Touchstone Pictures 	$171,504,781 	[13]
1989 	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 	Stephen Herek 	Nelson Entertainment 	Orion Pictures 	$40,485,039 	[14]
1989 	Collision Course1 	Lewis Teague 	 	DEG 	— 	
1989 	Renegades 	Jack Sholder 	Morgan Creek Productions 	Universal Pictures 	$9,015,164 	[15]
1989 	Blind Fury 	Phillip Noyce 	 	TriStar Pictures 	$2,692,037 	[16]
1989 	My Boyfriend's Back2 	Paul Schneider 	 	NBC 	— 	
1989 	An Innocent Man 	Peter Yates 	Silver Screen Partners III 	Touchstone Pictures 	$20,047,604 	[17]
1989 	A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story2	John Patterson 	 	Walt Disney Television 	— 	[18]
1990 	The First Power 	Robert Resnikoff 	Nelson Entertainment 	Orion Pictures 	$22,424,195 	
1990 	Bird on a Wire 	John Badham 	The Badham-Cohen Group 	Universal Pictures 	$138,697,012 	[19]
1990 	A Gnome Named Gnorm1 	Stan Winston 	Lightning Pictures 	Vestron Pictures 	— 	
1990 	Three Men and a Little Lady 	Emile Ardolino 	 	Touchstone Pictures 	$71,609,321 	[20]
1990 	Eve of Destruction 	Duncan Gibbins 	Nelson Entertainment 	Orion Pictures 	$5,451,119 	[21]
1991 	The Last to Go2 	John Erman 	 	ABC 	— 	
1991 	Aftermath2 	Glenn Jordan 	 	CBS 	— 	[18]
1991 	Class Action 	Michael Apted 	 	20th Century Fox 	$28,277,918 	[22]
1991 	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey 	Peter Hewitt 	Nelson Entertainment 	Orion Pictures 	$38,037,513 	[23]
1991 	Paradise 	Mary Agnes Donahue 	Touchwood Pacific Partners I 	Touchstone Pictures 	$18,634,643 	[24]
1992 	The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 	Curtis Hanson 	Nomura Babcock & Brown 	Hollywood Pictures 	$88,036,683 	[25]
1992 	The Cutting Edge 	Paul Michael Glaser 	 	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 	$25,105,517 	[26]
1992 	The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag 	Allan Moyle 	Nomura Babcock & Brown 	Touchstone Pictures 	$3,721,911 	[27]
1992 	Out on a Limb 	Francis Veber 	 	Universal Pictures 	$1,659,542 	[28]
1993 	Foreign Affairs2 	Jim O'Brien 	 	TNT 	— 	[29]
1994 	The Air Up There 	Paul Michael Glaser 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/
Nomura Babcock & Brown	Hollywood Pictures 	$21,011,318 	[30]
1994 	Holy Matrimony 	Leonard Nimoy 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Hollywood Pictures 	$713,234 	[31]
1994 	Terminal Velocity 	Deran Sarafian 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/
Nomura Babcock & Brown	Hollywood Pictures 	$16,487,349 	[32]
1994 	A Part of the Family2 	David Madden 	 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	— 	
1995 	Roommates 	Peter Yates 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/
Nomura Babcock & Brown	Hollywood Pictures 	$12,096,881 	[33]
1995 	Separate Lives 	David Madden 	 	Trimark Pictures 	$961,147 	[34]
1995 	Body Language2 	Eric Harlacher 	 	HBO 	— 	
1995 	Operation Dumbo Drop 	Simon Wincer 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Walt Disney Pictures 	$24,670,346 	[35]
1995 	The Tie That Binds 	Wesley Strick 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Hollywood Pictures 	$5,830,454 	[36]
1995 	Two Much 	Fernando Trueba 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/
Sogetel	Touchstone Pictures 	$1,141,556 	[37]
1995 	Jumanji 	Joe Johnston 	 	TriStar Pictures 	$262,322,000 	[38]
1995 	Mr. Holland's Opus 	Stephen Herek 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Hollywood Pictures 	$106,269,971 	[39]
1996 	Boys 	Stacy Cochran 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Touchstone Pictures 	$516,349 	[40]
1996 	Be Hold of Care 	Ben Stiller 	 	Columbia Pictures/TriStar Pictures	$12,096,673 	[40][30]
1996 	Kazaam 	Paul Michael Glaser 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Touchstone Pictures 	$18,937,262 	[41]
1996 	The Associate 	Paul Michael Glaser 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Hollywood Pictures 	$12,844,057 	[42]
1997 	Dead Silence2 	Daniel Petrie, Jr. 	Alliance Communications 	HBO Pictures 	— 	
1997 	Gridlock'd 	Vondie Curtis-Hall 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Gramercy Pictures 	$5,571,205 	[43]
1997 	Snow White: A Tale of Terror2 	Michael Cohn 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Gramercy Pictures 	— 	
1998 	The Proposition 	Leslie Linka Glatter	 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	$147,773 	[44]
1998 	Very Bad Things 	Peter Berg 	Initial Entertainment Group/
Ballpark Productions	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	$9,898,412 	[45]
1998 	What Dreams May Come 	Vincent Ward 	 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	$55,382,927 	[46]
1999 	Runaway Bride 	Garry Marshall 	Lakeshore Entertainment 	Paramount Pictures/
Touchstone Pictures	$309,457,509 	[47]
1999 	Teaching Mrs. Tingle 	Kevin Williamson 	Konrad Pictures 	Dimension Films 	$8,951,935 	[48]
2000 	Pitch Black 	David Twohy 	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment 	Gramercy Pictures/
USA Films 	$53,187,659 	[49]
2000 	The Three Stooges2 	Glenn Jordan 	Icon Entertainment International	Columbia TriStar Television 	— 	
2002 	The Pianist 	Roman Polanski 	Studio Canal+/
Canal+/
Studio Babelsberg	Focus Features 	$120,072,577 	
Box office total:	Box office total: 	Box office total: 	Box office total: 	Box office total: 	$3,037,962,100	—