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In January 1982, when Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio acquired the studio, the film division changed accordingly, reverting to the previous Embassy Pictures by dropping off "Avco". In 1984, the film division was renamed "Embassy Film Associates". Lord Lew Grade (who had just stepped down as head of ITC Entertainment) was brought in to run the international unit until Lear and Perenchio sold Embassy to [[The Coca-Cola Company]] on June 18, 1985. In late 1985, Coca-Cola sold the Embassy Pictures division to Dino de Laurentiis, who folded Embassy Films Associates into his own [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group]]. However, Coca-Cola continued to own the television division, by now renamed to ELP Communications (standing for Embassy Limited Partnership, Embassy Lear Perenchio, or Embassy Lear Pictures, depending on the source), which subsequently served as as an in-name only unit of [[Columbia Pictures Television]]. Coca-Cola then sold Embassy Home Entertainment to Nelson Holdings International which formed [[Nelson Entertainment]] in 1986. In 1988, DEG went bankrupt and its library assets were sold to Parafrance International, a firm eventually purchased by [[StudioCanal (France)|StudioCanal]], which merged the DEG library with that of [[Carolco Pictures]] when it itself went bankrupt (Carolco owned DEG's Wilmington studio and the rights to several features that were in production at the time of the DEG bankruptcy). | In January 1982, when Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio acquired the studio, the film division changed accordingly, reverting to the previous Embassy Pictures by dropping off "Avco". In 1984, the film division was renamed "Embassy Film Associates". Lord Lew Grade (who had just stepped down as head of ITC Entertainment) was brought in to run the international unit until Lear and Perenchio sold Embassy to [[The Coca-Cola Company]] on June 18, 1985. In late 1985, Coca-Cola sold the Embassy Pictures division to Dino de Laurentiis, who folded Embassy Films Associates into his own [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group]]. However, Coca-Cola continued to own the television division, by now renamed to ELP Communications (standing for Embassy Limited Partnership, Embassy Lear Perenchio, or Embassy Lear Pictures, depending on the source), which subsequently served as as an in-name only unit of [[Columbia Pictures Television]]. Coca-Cola then sold Embassy Home Entertainment to Nelson Holdings International which formed [[Nelson Entertainment]] in 1986. In 1988, DEG went bankrupt and its library assets were sold to Parafrance International, a firm eventually purchased by [[StudioCanal (France)|StudioCanal]], which merged the DEG library with that of [[Carolco Pictures]] when it itself went bankrupt (Carolco owned DEG's Wilmington studio and the rights to several features that were in production at the time of the DEG bankruptcy). | ||
Currently, [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] owns American home media rights to most of the Embassy film library after they acquired the rights to the pre-March 31, 1996 [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment | Currently, [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] owns American home media rights to most of the Embassy film library after they acquired the rights to the pre-March 31, 1996 [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment|PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]] library, which also included the Nelson library. [[Sony Pictures Television]] owns television rights to the film library as successor-in-interest to Embassy Communications. Sony also owns the Embassy logo, names and trademarks through ELP Communications. [[Lionsgate Films]] owns American streaming rights to select titles in the Embassy library, and home media rights to at least some of the same, by agreement with StudioCanal. | ||
==Embassy Pictures (1st Era)== | ==Embassy Pictures (1st Era)== | ||
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'''Music/Sounds:''' Only the opening theme of the movie. | '''Music/Sounds:''' Only the opening theme of the movie. | ||
'''Availability:''' Rare. It's seen on some American-distributed Italian movies (most of which are in public domain) and ''The Graduate''. While the next logo below plastered this logo on most pre-1998 prints of the latter (while the 1978 [[Magnetic Video Corporation|Magnetic Video]] VHS release plasters this with the Avco Embassy Television logo). It has been restored on current prints of ''The Graduate'', beginning with the 1997 [[StudioCanal (France)|StudioCanal]]/Carolco Pictures (through Strand Releasing and Rialto Pictures) theatrical release and 1998 [[PolyGram Video | '''Availability:''' Rare. It's seen on some American-distributed Italian movies (most of which are in public domain) and ''The Graduate''. While the next logo below plastered this logo on most pre-1998 prints of the latter (while the 1978 [[Magnetic Video Corporation|Magnetic Video]] VHS release plasters this with the Avco Embassy Television logo). It has been restored on current prints of ''The Graduate'', beginning with the 1997 [[StudioCanal (France)|StudioCanal]]/Carolco Pictures (through Strand Releasing and Rialto Pictures) theatrical release and 1998 [[PolyGram Video|PolyGram Video]] VHS release, along with the [[MGM Home Entertainment]] DVD and Blu-ray releases and current television airings. | ||