Hollywood Pictures
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Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's subsidiary movie studios. Like Touchstone Pictures, another Disney studio, it produces films for a primarily adult audience. Its first release was Arachnophobia (1990). While Disney chief Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, in recent years its operations have been scaled back and its management has been merged with the flagship Walt Disney Pictures studio. Its most profitable film to date is The Sixth Sense, which grossed over $200 million at the North American box office.
The brand has recently been resurrected as a distributor of genre films; the first film under the restructuring is the horror film Stay Alive, making it the first film that Hollywood Pictures has distributed in five years (the last film they made was in 2001). William Brent and Matthew Peterman have said, "The cool thing is Buena Vista Distribution is releasing Stay Alive on the Hollywood Pictures label. If they are happy with the outcome of the movie, Buena Vista may re-launch Hollywood Pictures as their version of Dimension or Screen Gems" [link].
Many film critics criticize the quality of the movies produced by Hollywood Pictures, thus earning the motto, "If it's the Sphinx, it stinks" (referring to the use of the sphinx for its company logo).
List of notable films
- Arachnophobia (1990)
- Taking Care of Business (1990)
- Run (1991)
- The Marrying Man (1991)
- One Good Cop (1991)
- V.I. Warshaswki (1991)
- The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992)
- Medicine Man (1992)
- The Joy Luck Club (1992)
- A Stranger Among Us (1992)
- Encino Man (1992)
- The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
- Super Mario Bros. (1993)
- Tombstone (1993)
- The Air Up There (1994)
- Angie (1994)
- Quiz Show (1994)
- The Santa Clause (1994)
- A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
- Terminal Velocity (1994)
- Houseguest (1995)
- Crimson Tide (1995)
- While You Were Sleeping (1995)
- Judge Dredd (1995)
- Dangerous Minds (1995)
- Unstrung Heroes (1995)
- Dead Presidents (1995)
- Powder (1995)
- Mr. Holland's Opus (1996)
- Eddie (1996)
- Spy Hard (1996)
- The Rock (1996)
- Prefontaine (1997)
- Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
- Gone Fishin' (1997)
- G.I. Jane (1997)
- Deep Dising (1998)
- Simon Birch (1998)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- Gun Shy (2000)
- Duets (2000)
- Just Visiting (2001)
- Stay Alive (2006)
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