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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
Castle Rock Entertainment was founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, actor and director Rob Reiner, Andy Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn, with [[Columbia Pictures]] as their original strategic partner. Early in the studio's history, [[Nelson Entertainment]] co-financed their films until 1991, when [[New Line Cinema]] took over their duties (after Nelson was sold to New Line). On Christmas Day 1993, Castle Rock was acquired by [[Turner Entertainment Co.|Turner Broadcasting System]] and would become a part of Time Warner when the two along with New Line Cinema merged with them on October 10, 1996. In 1999, [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] gained distribution rights from Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures. Castle Rock's first release was ''Winter People'' in 1989, but no logo was used until ''When Harry Met Sally''.... The Castle Rock production label was a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment until numerous box office failures caused the folding of the label in 2010. Several movies produced afterwards used the Castle Rock name with special permission, specifically movies made by Rob Reiner himself (i.e. ''LBJ''). | '''Castle Rock Entertainment''' was founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, actor and director Rob Reiner, Andy Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn, with [[Columbia Pictures]] as their original strategic partner. Early in the studio's history, [[Nelson Entertainment]] co-financed their films until 1991, when [[New Line Cinema]] took over their duties (after Nelson was sold to New Line). On Christmas Day 1993, Castle Rock was acquired by [[Turner Entertainment Co.|Turner Broadcasting System]] and would become a part of Time Warner when the two along with New Line Cinema merged with them on October 10, 1996. In 1999, [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] gained distribution rights from Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures. Castle Rock's first release was ''Winter People'' in 1989, but no logo was used until ''When Harry Met Sally''.... The Castle Rock production label was a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment until numerous box office failures caused the folding of the label in 2010. Several movies produced afterwards used the Castle Rock name with special permission, specifically movies made by Rob Reiner himself (i.e. ''LBJ''). | ||
The home media rights to the pre-1994 Castle Rock library (which was part of Nelson's library) were sold to [[Epic Productions]], which incorporated it into its Gamma library, and then to [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (UK)|PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]]; [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] acquired these rights in January 1999 after purchasing the pre-March 31, 1996 PolyGram library (including their back library) (exceptions are ''A Few Good Men'', ''In the Line of Fire'',and ''North'', co-productions with Columbia Pictures that remained with the studio and ''The Spirit of '76'', which Castle Rock produced and has a copyright holder alongside Black Diamond Productions, owned by Warner Bros.). [[Warner Bros. Television]] does own the television rights to most Castle Rock films. The post-1994 library is owned by Warner Bros. (except for distribution rights of ''The Story of Us'', ''The Last Days of Disco'', and international rights to ''The American President'', all of which are owned by [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]], the original distributor). Castle Rock retains the copyright to nearly all of its films. | The home media rights to the pre-1994 Castle Rock library (which was part of Nelson's library) were sold to [[Epic Productions]], which incorporated it into its Gamma library, and then to [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (UK)|PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]]; [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] acquired these rights in January 1999 after purchasing the pre-March 31, 1996 PolyGram library (including their back library) (exceptions are ''A Few Good Men'', ''In the Line of Fire'',and ''North'', co-productions with Columbia Pictures that remained with the studio and ''The Spirit of '76'', which Castle Rock produced and has a copyright holder alongside Black Diamond Productions, owned by Warner Bros.). [[Warner Bros. Television]] does own the television rights to most Castle Rock films. The post-1994 library is owned by Warner Bros. (except for distribution rights of ''The Story of Us'', ''The Last Days of Disco'', and international rights to ''The American President'', all of which are owned by [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]], the original distributor). Castle Rock retains the copyright to nearly all of its films. | ||
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'''Trivia''': | '''Trivia''': | ||
* Rob Reiner once said in an interview that the lighthouse was an allegory of the company's image: allowing creative talents to make their own projects with more freedom than the major Hollywood studios would allow ("safe harbor", as he calls it). Indeed, Castle Rock's nurturing of such talent, including (most notably) Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, made it one of the most successful production companies of the 1990s. | * Rob Reiner once said in an interview that the lighthouse was an allegory of the company's image: allowing creative talents to make their own projects with more freedom than the major Hollywood studios would allow ("safe harbor", as he calls it). Indeed, Castle Rock's nurturing of such talent, including (most notably) Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, made it one of the most successful production companies of the 1990s. | ||
* The company name comes from the name of the fictional town in Maine that is the setting for several Stephen King stories (which he named after the rocky outcrop named "Castle Rock" in ''Lord of the Flies''. Reiner himself named the company after the town after the success of his film ''Stand By Me'', (which is based on King's novella, ''The Body''). | * The company name comes from the name of the fictional town in Maine that is the setting for several Stephen King stories (which he named after the rocky outcrop named "Castle Rock" in ''Lord of the Flies''. Reiner himself named the company after the town after the success of his film ''Stand By Me'', (which is based on King's novella, ''The Body''). | ||