Company type | Film distributor and production company |
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Industry | Motion pictures |
Founded | 1982[1] 2024 (Revival) | (Original)
Founder | David Geffen |
Defunct | 1998 | (Original)
Fate | Closed and split between Warner Bros. and DreamWorks Pictures |
Successors | Studio: DreamWorks Pictures Library: Warner Bros. Paramount Pictures (through MTV Entertainment Studios) (Beavis and Butt-Head Do America only) Disney–ABC Domestic Television (Tales from the Crypt syndication rights only) |
Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Key people | David Geffen Eric Eisner |
Owner | Warner Bros. |
Divisions | Geffen Records (1980-1999) Geffen Television |
The Geffen Film Company (also known as The Geffen Company, The Geffen Film Company, Inc., and later Geffen Pictures) is an American film distributor and production company founded by David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, and future co-founder of DreamWorks. The spherical Geffen Pictures logo, based on the logo of its record-label counterpart, was created by Saul Bass. Their most famous films are Risky Business (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), and Interview with the Vampire (1994).