Company type | Private corporation |
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Industry | Motion picture |
Founded | July 1, 1986 |
Founder | Jerry Weintraub |
Defunct | September 30, 1990 |
Fate | Bankruptcy |
Successors | Company: Columbia Pictures Library: Sony Pictures (through Columbia Pictures; through Sony Pictures Classics for The Big Blue) Paramount Pictures (through Melange Pictures) (television and online streaming rights excluding The Big Blue) StudioCanal (through Lumiere Pictures and Television) (Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment library only) |
Key people | Jerry Weintraub, Chair/CEO Kenneth Kleinberg, president/COO[1] Andrew Susskind, TV president[2] |
Products | films |
Services | distribution |
Owner | The Coca-Cola Company US Tobacco Company[3] Columbia Pictures (15%; 1987–1989) Warner Bros. (15%; 1989–1990)[4] |
Weintraub Entertainment Group (WEG) was a film production company considered to be a mini-major studio founded by Jerry Weintraub.[1]
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