Casablanca FilmWorks

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Casablanca FilmWorks was a division of the 1976 media company Casablanca Record & FilmWorks , formed through the merger of Casablanca Records and the film production company FilmWorks .

founding

The producer Peter Guber founded his own production company in 1975, which he simply called FilmWorks ; In 1976 he merged it with the Casablanca Records label, founded by his long-time friend Neil Bogart , to form Casablanca Record & FilmWorks . The connection between the two companies came about through the fact that Guber promised the company the profits from a contract for five films that he had signed with Columbia. In return, he received twenty percent of the company's shares. He became the company's chairman and head of the Casablanca FilmWorks division.

Movies

Casablanca Filmworks produced from 1977 to 1980 the films The Deep (German title: Dieiefe , 1977), Thank God It's Friday ( Thank God, it's Friday , 1978), Midnight Express ( 12 noon , 1978), Foxes ( Jeanie's clique , 1980), in which Bogart's daughter from his first marriage, Jill, played, and The Hollywood Knights (1980), as well as the TV productions The Making of 'The Deep' (1977) and The Donna Summer Special (1980).

successes

Thank God It's Friday won an Oscar for the song Last Dance , and Midnight Express won two Oscars in 1979, namely for best adapted screenplay ( Oliver Stone ) and for best film music ( Giorgio Moroder ). Midnight Express also received a Golden Globe in the "Best Picture" category; Peter Guber was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theater Owners .

The End

When PolyGram took over the rest of Casablanca Record & FilmWorks in February 1980 and Neil Bogart left the company, Casablanca FilmWorks was dissolved and served as the basis for the new production company PolyGram Pictures, which made some commercially unsuccessful films such as Heroes of the Street (grossing in the US: $ 2 million), Endless Love (1981, grossing $ 15 million), Escape on the Highway , and Missing (1982).

literature

  • And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records ; Larry Harris, Curt Gooch, and Jeff Suhs; Backbeat Books, 2009; ISBN 978-0-87930-982-4
  • Hit and Run - How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood ; Nancy Griffin & Kim Masters, Simon & Schuster, 1996; ISBN 0-684-83266-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records
  2. ↑ IMDB entry on Casablanca Filmworks
  3. ^ Post-Kiss, the Village People and Donna Summer, Neil & Joyce Bogart Redo Their Own Lives , People Magazine, May 26, 1980