Question: What company produced the hit Science Fiction/Horror film starring Yaphet Kotto in 1979?

Context articles: Badge of the Assassin
Warning Sign (film)
Sharks' Treasure
Across 110th Street
Friday Foster (film)
Tomorrow's a Killer
Truck Turner
Alien (film)
Othello (1995 film)
Yaphet Kotto

Badge of the Assassin is a 1985 television film starring James Woods, Yaphet Kotto and Alex Rocco.
 It was directed by Mel Damski.
 The film first aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System network on November 2, 1985.
 The film's production company was Blatt-Singer Productions.
Warning Sign is a 1985 science fiction-horror film directed by Hal Barwood and starring Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
Sharks' Treasure is a 1975 American adventure film written, produced and directed by Cornel Wilde and starring Cornel Wilde and Yaphet Kotto.
Across 110th Street is a 1972 American crime drama film starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, and Anthony Franciosa, and directed by Barry Shear.
 Commonly associated with the blaxploitation genre at the time, it has received considerable critical praise from writer Greil Marcus and others for surpassing the limitations of that genre.
Friday Foster is a 1975 American blaxploitation film written and directed by Arthur Marks and starring Pam Grier in the title role.
 Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers and Carl Weathers co-starred.
 It was an adaptation of the 1970-74 eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip, scripted by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Jorge Longarón and Gray Morrow.
 This was Grier's final film with American International Pictures.
 The tagline on the film's poster is "Wham!
 Bam!
 Here comes Pam!"
Tomorrow's a Killer is a 1987 Canadian-American thriller film directed by George Kaczender and starring David Birney, Susannah York and Yaphet Kotto.
 A policeman, haunted by his past, tries to hunt down a serial killer murdering prostitutes.
 The film is also known as Prettykill.
 It was shot in Toronto.
Truck Turner (also known as "Black Bullet") is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan.
 The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Jerry Wilkes and Oscar Williams.
 Isaac Hayes also scored the music for the soundtrack.
 The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with "Foxy Brown".
Alien is a 1979 science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto.
 The film's title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature that stalks and attacks the crew of a spaceship.
 Dan O'Bannon, drawing upon previous works of science fiction and horror, wrote the screenplay from a story he co-authored with Ronald Shusett.
 The film was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions, and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
 Giler and Hill revised and made additions to the script.
 Shusett was executive producer.
 The eponymous Alien and its accompanying elements were designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger, while concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the more human aspects of the film.
Othello is a 1995 film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name.
 It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago.
 This is the first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio that casts an African American actor to play the role of Othello, although low-budget independent films of the play starring Ted Lange and Yaphet Kotto predated it.
Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1939) is an American actor, known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series "" (1993–99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello.
 His films include the science-fiction/horror film "Alien" (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction/action film "The Running Man" (1987).
 He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr.
 Big in the James Bond movie "Live and Let Die" (1973).
 He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller "Midnight Run" (1988) as FBI agent Alonzo Mosely.