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'''Interscope Communications''' was founded in 1982 by film producer Ted Field. Until 1987, it did not use an on-screen logo, and between 1987 and 1994, only television movies used Interscope's logo. Field sold his company to [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]] in 1993. While the film production part of Interscope eventually was made a subdivision of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, its record label, [[Interscope Records]] (which Field and record producer Jimmy Iovine created in 1989 and was originally distributed by Atlantic) still exists as a subsidiary of the Interscope/Geffen/A&M unit of the [[Universal Music Group]].

In 1999, following Seagram's acquisition of PolyGram, Interscope Communications and other PolyGram-related products were folded into [[Universal Pictures]]. Later that year, Universal sold their 10% share in the Interscope film label to Barry Diller's [[USA Films]], at the time a division of HSN, Inc. Two years later, Diller sold [[USA Network Originals|USA Networks]] and its division, [[Studios USA Television|Studios USA]], to Vivendi S.A., reuniting Interscope Communications with Universal Pictures and with its now-separate Universal Music division of Interscope Records. A year later in 2002, Vivendi merged with Universal Pictures to create Vivendi Universal Entertainment, thus combining USA Networks with all of Vivendi and Universal's assets, while merging Studios USA into [[Universal Television Distribution]] and/or [[Universal Network Television]] (both of which would later in 2004 be rebranded as [[NBCUniversal Television Distribution]] and [[NBC Universal Television Studio]] following the company's merger with General Electric's [[NBC]]). With the merger of Vivendi Universal also came the merger of Interscope Communications, USA Films, [[October Films]], [[Gramercy Pictures]], [[Rogue|Rogue Pictures]], [[Good Machine Productions|Good Machine]] and [[Universal Focus]] into the 2002 creation of [[Focus Features]].

Despite this, the Interscope Communications name continued to be used all the way until the summer of 2003, with many of its properties or planned films prior being retained under either Focus Features or Universal Pictures.

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