Weintraub Entertainment Group

Weintraub Entertainment Group
Company typePrivate corporation
IndustryMotion picture
FoundedJuly 1, 1986; 38 years ago (1986-07-01)
FounderJerry Weintraub
DefunctSeptember 30, 1990; 34 years ago (1990-09-30)
FateBankruptcy
SuccessorsCompany:
Columbia Pictures
Library:
Sony Pictures
(through Columbia Pictures; through Sony Pictures Classics for The Big Blue)
Paramount Pictures
(through Melange Pictures)
(television and online streaming rights excluding The Big Blue)
StudioCanal
(through Lumiere Pictures and Television)
(Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment library only)
Key people
Jerry Weintraub, Chair/CEO
Kenneth Kleinberg, president/COO[1]
Andrew Susskind, TV president[2]
Productsfilms
Servicesdistribution
OwnerThe Coca-Cola Company
US Tobacco Company[3]
Columbia Pictures (15%; 1987–1989)
Warner Bros. (15%; 1989–1990)[4]

Weintraub Entertainment Group (WEG) was a film production company considered to be a mini-major studio founded by Jerry Weintraub.[1]

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