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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. Hollands Opus (1995)
Twelve 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)

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-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), [[So What Do We Do Now|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]]).
+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), [[So What Do We Do Now?|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: ===