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'''Gramercy Pictures''' was founded in May 1992 as a joint venture between [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]] and [[Universal Pictures]]. The name of the company is derived from its parent companies, though it could also be a reference to '''Gramercy''' Park in New York City. Gramercy served as PolyGram Filmed Entertainment's US theatrical distributor and as Universal's art-house division. The Seagram Company would sell half of the studio to PolyGram on January 11, 1996, thus Gramercy became fully owned by the latter. When Seagram (then parent owner of Universal) bought PolyGram, they acquired Gramercy, but sold it (along with [[October Films]]) to Barry Diller's USA Networks (which Seagram owned a partial stake in), who renamed the combined operations [[USA Films]] (now "[[Focus Features]]"). In May 2015, Focus Features revived Gramercy for genre films. However, after only six films and due to the box-office failure of ''Ratchet & Clank'', the label was discontinued again a year later. The following year, Universal started up a similar label, [[OTL Releasing]]. | '''Gramercy Pictures''' was founded in May 1992 as a joint venture between [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]] and [[Universal Pictures]]. The name of the company is derived from its parent companies, though it could also be a reference to '''Gramercy''' Park in New York City. Gramercy served as PolyGram Filmed Entertainment's US theatrical distributor and as Universal's art-house division. The Seagram Company would sell half of the studio to PolyGram on January 11, 1996, thus Gramercy became fully owned by the latter. When Seagram (then parent owner of Universal) bought PolyGram, they acquired Gramercy, but sold it (along with [[October Films]]) to Barry Diller's USA Networks (which Seagram owned a partial stake in), who renamed the combined operations [[USA Films]] (now "[[Focus Features]]"). In May 2015, Focus Features revived Gramercy for genre films. However, after only six films and due to the box-office failure of ''Ratchet & Clank'', the label was discontinued again a year later. The following year, Universal started up a similar label, [[OTL Releasing]]. | ||
=== | ===The Original Company's Logo (May 14, 1993-March 5, 1999)=== | ||
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* Current prints of said film, however, plaster the combo with the [[Focus Features]] logo. | * Current prints of said film, however, plaster the combo with the [[Focus Features]] logo. | ||
=== | ===The Revived Company's Logo (May 20, 2015-April 29, 2016)=== | ||
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