Avco-Embassy
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| Industry | Film studio |
|---|---|
| Fate | Sold |
| Successor |
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (theatrical) Nelson Entertainment (home video) ELP Communications (television) |
| Founded | 1942 |
| Defunct | 1986 |
| Headquarters | 1901 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, California |
| Products | Motion pictures |
| Parent | Independent (1942–1967) Avco Corporation (1967–1982) Embassy Communications, Inc. (1982–1985) The Coca-Cola Company (1985–1986) Dino De Laurentiis Productions (1986) |
Embassy Pictures Corporation (also and later known as AVCO Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution studio responsible for such films as Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, Carnal Knowledge, The Night Porter, Phantasm, The Fog, Prom Night, Scanners, The Howling, Escape from New York, and This Is Spinal Tap.
The company was founded in 1942 by Joseph E. Levine, initially to distribute foreign films in the United States. Some of Levine's early successes were the Italian-made Hercules films with Steve Reeves, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956, a much re-edited version of Ishirō Honda's original Godzilla from 1954), and the adaptation of The Thief of Baghdad (1961), also with Reeves in the lead. Embassy also distributed Federico Fellini's film 8½ (1963) and Rick Carrier's Strangers in the City (1962).
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