Orion Pictures

Orion Releasing, LLC
	Logo used since 2022 with the Amazon MGM Studios byline
Trade name	Orion Pictures Corporation
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film, television
Founded	January 1978; 46 years ago (original; as Orion Pictures Corporation); 2013; 11 years ago (relaunch; under the Orion Pictures label)
Founders	Arthur B. Krim; Eric Pleskow; Mike Medavoy; William Bernstein; Robert Benjamin;
Defunct	1999; 25 years ago (original)
Fate	Bankruptcy, sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (original)
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Alana Mayo (president); John Bryan; (president, MGM Domestic TV Distribution);
Products	Motion pictures
Brands	Orion Classics
Parent	Metromedia (1988–1997); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; (1997–2023); Amazon MGM Studios; (2023–present);
Divisions	Orion Classics

Orion Releasing, LLC (doing business as Orion) is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon.

It founded in 1978 as Orion Pictures Corporation, a joint venture between Warner Bros. and three former senior executives at United Artists. The company produced and released films from 1978 through 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was one of the largest mini-major studios during its early years, when it worked with prominent directors such as Woody Allen, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, and Oliver Stone.^[3] Four films distributed by Orion won Academy Awards for Best Picture: Amadeus (1984), Platoon (1986), Dances with Wolves (1990), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).^[4] Four other Orion films were nominated for the award: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Mississippi Burning (1988), Women Talking (2022) and American Fiction (2023).

In 1997, Orion was acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), which revived the Orion name for television in 2013 and relaunched Orion Pictures a year later. In 2022, Amazon acquired Orion when it acquired MGM.

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