Polygram Filmed Entertainment

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment was a film company created by the people at the PolyGram music company as a way to get into film production and create a viable European competitor to the Hollywood studios. Over its twenty-year existence, the company managed to produce and distribute many successful UK productions (bringing people such as Hugh Grant and Richard Curtis into worldwide fame) and producing a number of American films in joint ventures with Disney and Universal. In 1998, they were bought out by Seagram (then owners of Universal), who, after failing to find a buyer absorbed the company into Universal (though most of the company's back catalog now rests with Metro Goldwyn Mayer).

Films produced or distributed by PolyGram include:

• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• A Chorus Line (1985)
• Batman (the four films between 1989 and 1997)
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• Candyman and its first sequel (1992, 1995)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992) - international distribution
• Posse (1993)
• Kalifornia (1993)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• Nell (1994)
• Shallow Grave (1995)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
• 12 Monkeys (1995)
• Trainspotting (1996)
• Fargo (1996)
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
• Barb Wire (1996)
• Kazaam (1996)
• Sleepers (1996)
• Bean (1997)
• A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
• The Borrowers (1997)
• The Gingerbread Man (1998)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• The Last Days of Disco (1998)
• What Dreams May Come (1998)
• Notting Hill (1999)
• Arlington Road (1999)