Vestron Pictures

Vestron Pictures Inc.
Company typeDivision
IndustryFilm industry
GenreVarious
Founded1986; 38 years ago (1986)
FounderSteve Tisch
Lawrence Turman
Gene Kirkwood
Defunct1992; 32 years ago (1992)
FateParent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, assets acquired by LIVE Entertainment
SuccessorLionsgate
Headquarters,
Key people
Austin O. Furst Jr.
ProductsMotion pictures
OwnerVestron, Inc.
ParentVestron, Inc. (1986–1991)
LIVE Entertainment (1991–1992)

Vestron Pictures Inc. was an American film studio and distributor, a former division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., that is best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing.[1]

Vestron also has had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures, a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video, headed by Lawrence Kasanoff, who would later go on to found Lightstorm Entertainment and Threshold Entertainment.[2]

  1. ^ "Talks on Vestron Reported". The New York Times. February 17, 1990.
  2. ^ "CAN FILMMAKING SAVE VESTRON'S HOME VIDEO?". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2022-02-15.