Producers Sales Organization

Producers Sales Organization (PSO) was an independent motion picture production and sales company founded in 1977. Initiated by Mark Damon, an actor-turned-producer, PSO mostly handled foreign sales of independent films. It was initially was a partnership between Damon, producer Sandy Howard, and Richard St. Johns, who worked for Arthur Guinness Son & Co. At one point, it was a subsidiary of Guinness.Damon & Schreyer, p. 47-49 In its final years of existence, PSO briefly became a full-fledged production company.
Despite releasing many successful films, PSO ran into financial problems and was forced into bankruptcy in 1986, effectively ending the company. Many of its employees were soon hired by Vestron Pictures to run a new foreign sales unit dubbed Producers Distribution Organization, later renamed Interaccess Film Distribution, Inc.LA BRIEFLY. Daily News of Los Angeles (August 26, 1986).Billboard (November 1, 1986), p. 48
A year after PSO ended, Damon founded a new company, with Peter Guber and Jon Peters, called Vision International.
A majority of the PSO library would ultimately end up with Lionsgate, and then Mel Gibson and his Icon International company.
PSO will become Purchased by The Curiosity Company since August 17, 2018 as PSO Communications
==Films==
Among the most notable films PSO represented or financed include:
* Matilda (1978)Damon & Schreyer, p. 53-56
* The Wanderers (1979)Damon & Schreyer, p. 58
* A Change of Seasons (1980)Damon & Schreyer, p. 56-57
* Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
* The Final Countdown (1981)Damon & Schreyer, p. 60-65
* Das Boot (1981)
* An American Werewolf in London (1981)
* Dead and Buried (1981)
* Endless Love (1981)
* Young Doctors in Love (1982)
* Cujo (1983)
* The Day After (1983)
* Fire and Ice (1983)
* Never Say Never Again (1983)
* The Outsiders (1983)
* Silkwood (1983)
* La Traviata (1983)
* The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)
* The Neverending Story (1984)
* Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
* Prizzi's Honor (1985)
* Heavenly Bodies (1985)
* 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
* Flight of the Navigator (1986)
* 9½ Weeks (1986)
* Short Circuit (1986)
* Flight of the Navigator (1986)
==Television==
*Disenchantment (2018–present) (credited as "PSO Communications")
==References==
==Further reading==
*Mark Damon; Linda Schreyer (2008). From Cowboy to Mogul to Monster: The Neverending Story of Film Pioneer Mark Damon. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
==External links==
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