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Artisan Entertainment (formerly known as U.S.A. Home Video, International Video Entertainment (IVE) and LIVE Entertainment) was an American film studio and home video company. It was considered one of the largest mini-major film studios [1] until it was purchased by later mini-major film studio Lions Gate Entertainment in 2003. At the time of ...
Release DateTitleNotesJune 24, 1998co-production with BBC Films, Bord ...July 10, 1998produced by Protozoa Pictures;September 16, 1998co-production with JD ProductionsOctober 1998co-productions with Killer FilmsSome releases of films from lesser known companies (The Movie Group and Kings Road)--and former productions released by Live Entertainment, Warner Bros., MGM, TriStar Pictures, Carolco, Vestron Pictures, and others — were either plastered over or removed and replaced with Artisan.
- Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
- Written and Directed by Darren Aronofsky
- Directed by Steven Soderbergh; and Written by Lem Dobbs
- Written and Directed by Jon Favreau
Reservoir Dogs is probably the most important screenplay of the late 20thand early 21stcenturies. This script truly introduced post-modernism (a development of modernism to include awareness and even self-consciousness about earlier styles of writing and creation) to screenwriting in the same way that William Burroughs’s The Naked Lunch (1959) trul...
Pi was not the first film proper of the newly renamed Artisan; that title belongs to I Went Down (also 1998), a fairly forgettable Irish crime-drama that was one of the countless pale imitations of Reservoir Dogs that abounded in the 1990s. However, it might as well have been because it immediately forged the newly christened Artisan’s reputation a...
It is questionable whether young cinema viewers (the fabled “millennials”) would even recognize the term “Limey,” a slang word for Britons that goes back to the halcyon days of the British Empire when scurvy was rife among British sailors and sucking on citrus fruits like limes was one of the few ways to combat it. Today, it has largely been replac...
Some of the most gripping and chilling films of their time were produced by Artisan, even before it officially took on that name. Among these are dark dramas like Piand Requiem for a Dreamand truly horrifying horror films like The Blair Witch Project. It was never as successful at comedy, even black comedy, but the best of its comic output was prob...
Artisan Entertainment Inc. produces, distributes, and markets motion pictures. Specializing in independent films, Artisan has had box office triumphs with movies such as The Blair Witch Project.
In 1997, Live Entertainment was bought out by Bain Capital, and rebranded the company as Artisan Entertainment in April 1998 in order to disassociate the company with mediocre titles and the controversies that followed the murders of Jose Menendez and his wife. The company expanded with films...
As part of a restructuring process, in April 1998, the company became Artisan Entertainment. On December 15, 2003, Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation acquired Artisan for $220 million and video and DVD releases through Artisan have now been re-released under Lionsgate Home Entertainment .
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As part of a restructuring process, in April 1998, the company became Artisan Entertainment. On December 15, 2003, Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation acquired Artisan for $220 million and video and DVD releases through Artisan have now been re-released under Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
