Act III Productions: Difference between revisions

| founder = Norman Lear

'''Act III Communications''' is Norman Lear's current company formed on October 21, 1985, following Lear and Jerry Perenchio's sale of [[Embassy Communications|Embassy Communications, Inc.]] (Tandem, Embassy Television, etc.) to Coca-Cola. Operations began on January 1, 1986. His first film under the Act III name was ''Stand By Me'' which was released by [[Columbia Pictures]]. Act III was also the name of a broadcaster Norman Lear was involved in, which owned several Fox and independent stations during the early 1990s (most of its stations are now owned by the [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]]). On February 2, 1989, Act III Communications formed a joint-venture with [[Columbia Pictures Television]] called "Act III Television" (later "Act III Productions") to produce television and not managing. This was marked as Norman Lear's return to television after exiting television production in 1978 to focus on feature films and in 1984 from executive producing the sitcom, ''a.k.a. Pablo.'' In 2006, Act III purchased 50% of [[Village Roadshow Pictures]] and merged his music industry Concord Music Group. Act III did not have a logo until 1991.

'''Visuals:''' On a {{color|dimgray|dark gray}} background, there is the ACT III logo fading in in chrome lettering with "{{color|silver|{{Font|Times New Roman|'''ACT III'''}}}}" in a Roman font and the word "{{color|silver|T E L E V I S I O N}}" in a stretched font. There are three black lines from the bottom of the Roman numeral "{{color|silver|{{Font|Times New Roman|'''III'''}}}}" in between the words "{{color|silver|{{Font|Times New Roman|'''ACT'''}}}}" and "{{color|silver|T E L E V I S I O N}}".