G.G. Communications

G.G. Communications
IndustryFilm distribution
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
,
United States[1]
Key people
Nicholas W. Russo[2]
OwnerIndependent

G.G. Communications or GG Productions[3] was a film distributor based in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] Founded by city native Nicholas W. Russo (credited in releases as "N.W. Russo"),[1][2][4] it was responsible for the U.S. releases of various foreign films. The company was named after fisherman Gadabout Gaddis, for whom Russo had produced the successful documentary television series The Flying Fisherman.[2]

G.G.'s titles ranged from adult fare such as Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava's giallo films One on Top of the Other and Hatchet for the Honeymoon,[3][5] to children's films such as the live-action Pippi Longstocking films,[6] Giuliano Cenci's The Adventures of Pinocchio, Rolf Kauka's Once Upon a Time,[4] and the 1975 anime feature based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.[2] In the early 1980s, several of its films were released on VHS through distributor Video Gems.[7]

  1. ^ a b c Marquee Staff (August 25, 1975). "Theater district may lose patrons". The Boston Globe. p. 26. Everything's coming up G's for Nick Russo, the Park Square Disney: The headman of the Boston-based G.G. Communications, a movie distributing outfit...
  2. ^ a b c d "Nicholas W. Russo, 75, was TV producer". The Baltimore Sun. September 20, 1991. p. 7.C. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Lucas, Tim (2007). Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark. Video Watchdog. p. 778. ISBN 978-0-9633756-1-2.
  4. ^ a b G.G. Communications (February 25, 1977). "Matinee advertisement for Once Upon a Time". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. p. 4B. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  5. ^ Church, David (October 28, 2014). "One on Top of the Other: Lucio Fulci, Transnational Film Industries, and the Retrospective Construction of the Italian Horror Canon". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 32 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1080/10509208.2013.780935. S2CID 191562040.
  6. ^ Commire, Anne, ed. (1985). Something About the Author. Vol. 38. Gale Research Company. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-8103-0071-2. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  7. ^ Tiegel, Eliot (March 6, 1982). "Kid Stuff Clicks For 2-Year-Old Video Gems Company". Billboard. Vol. 94, no. 9. p. 66. Retrieved October 5, 2011.