Hemdale Film Corporation: Difference between revisions

'''Hemdale Film Corporation''' (also known as "'''Hemdale Releasing Corporation'''", "'''Hemdale Pictures Corporation'''" and "'''Hemdale Communications'''") was an independent film production and later distribution company founded in London in 1967 by David '''Hem'''mings and John '''Dal'''y originally as a talent agency, but after Hemmings left the company in 1971, Daly purchased the rest of the company to refocus it as a film studio. Derek Gibson later joined the company. [[Orion Pictures]] would begin to release many of Hemdale's films during the 1980s after Hemdale had went through various studios for distribution in the past. However, in 1995, Hemdale shut down after declaring bankruptcy due to box office failures. The majority of the library was purchased by Consortium de Realisation, which incorporated it into Epic's Lambda library; it, along with the other Epic Alphabet Libraries, was purchased by [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment|PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]]. In January 1999, [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|MGM]] purchased the pre-March 31, 1996 PolyGram library (including PolyGram's back library) and would merge it with the Orion Pictures (whom MGM purchased in 1997) library.