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Re: The Boys In The Band Coming To SD?
Center Cinema Films, which produced Boys In The Band, Scrooge, A Man Called Horse, Little Big Man and Big Jake, just to name a few of the 28 films they made was produced by CBS. This brief try at the film industry started around 1968 with the Doris Day’s last feature film, With Six You Get Eggroll, and ended in 1972 with Snoopy Come Home. The films made between those dates ranged from the classic, A Man Called Horse to the rarely seen, Something For Everyone. Today some of the films are considered minor classics like The Reivers, Prime Cut, Rio Lobo, Monte Walsh and Boys In The Band.
Center Cinema Films used a logo that resembled a film projector with the title of the company coming out of the top line that forms the F. The logo was kind of neat.
Center Cinema Films released their product through National General Pictures which was a film distributor and production company from 1967 to its sale to Warner Brothers in 1973. WB owns the NGP films such as The Cheyenne Social Club, Executive Action, and Up The Sandbox.
The Center Cinema Films continued to be owned by CBS and many of the films were released on Video and Laserdisc by 20th Century Fox/CBS. A partnership that lasted until Viacom purchased CBS and intergraded it into the Paramount domain.
On a side note, NGP also owned a theatre circuit (NGT - National General Theatres) that was made up of the old Fox West Coast Theatres and new builds. Most theatres were sold in 1973 to Mann Theatres, including the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and NGP got out of the entertainment business all together.
All that being said, here’s to Paramount for releasing another title from their vault. With their agreement with Legend Films, I thought it might go through them. So now we have Paramount and Legend releasing Paramount catalog titles. Didn't think I would ever see the day.
"If it be a natural thing – where do it come from... where do it go?"-Ghost Train (1941)
Last edited by ahollis : 04-29-2008 at 03:12 PM.
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