Polygram Filmed Entertainment

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment was a film company created by the people at the PolyGram music company as a way to get into film production and create a viable European competitor to the Hollywood studios. Over its twenty-year existence, the company managed to produce and distribute many successful UK productions (bringing people such as Hugh Grant and Richard Curtis into worldwide fame) and producing a number of American films in joint ventures with Disney and Universal. In 1998, they were bought out by Seagram (then owners of Universal), who, after failing to find a buyer absorbed the company into Universal (though most of the company's back catalog now rests with Metro Goldwyn Mayer).

Films produced or distributed by PolyGram include:

 * An American Werewolf in London (1981)
 * A Chorus Line (1985)
 * Batman (the four films between 1989 and 1997)
 * Wild at Heart (1990)
 * Candyman and its first sequel (1992, 1995)
 * Reservoir Dogs (1992) - international distribution
 * Posse (1993)
 * Kalifornia (1993)
 * Dazed and Confused (1993)
 * The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
 * Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
 * Nell (1994)
 * Shallow Grave (1995)
 * The Usual Suspects (1995)
 * Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
 * 12 Monkeys (1995)
 * Trainspotting (1996)
 * Fargo (1996)
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
 * Barb Wire (1996)
 * Kazaam (1996)
 * Sleepers (1996)
 * Bean (1997)
 * A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
 * The Borrowers (1997)
 * The Gingerbread Man (1998)
 * The Big Lebowski (1998)
 * The Last Days of Disco (1998)
 * What Dreams May Come (1998)
 * Notting Hill (1999)
 * Arlington Road (1999)