Seven Arts Productions

Seven Arts Productions
	Seven Arts Productions first logo (1957–1961)
Industry	Film
Genre	Entertainment
Fate	merged with Warner Bros.
Successor	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Founded	1957
Defunct	1967
Key people	Ray Stark; Eliot Hyman
Parent	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (1967–1969)

Seven Arts Productions was a production company which made films for release by other studios. It was founded in 1957 by Ray Stark, Eliot Hyman, and Norman Katz.[1]

Second logo (1961–1964)

Third logo (1964–1967)

History

Seven Arts first film was The Gun Runners, released by United Artists.

Among its productions were The Misfits (1961) for United Artists, Gigot (1962) for Twentieth Century-Fox, Lolita (1962) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) for Warner Bros., and Is Paris Burning? (1966) for Paramount Pictures.

Over time it expanded its role, becoming equity investors with other studios and partnering with British horror film company Hammer Film Productions on many projects. It also retained ancillary rights on new productions surrendered on earlier films, including Seven Days in May (1964) and Promise Her Anything (1965) for release by Paramount.

Seven Arts also distributed feature films and TV programs for television. Warner Bros. licensed the TV rights to its post-1949 library to Seven Arts in 1960. Seven Arts made similar deals with 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures.[1] Seven Arts also acquired theatrical reissue rights to some Fox films as well.[1]

In 1967, Seven Arts Productions acquired the controlling interest in Warner Bros. Pictures from Jack L. Warner for $32 million.[2] The companies were merged as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. It was renamed Warner Bros. after Kinney National Company bought the company.

Other uses

Neither the later Seven Arts Pictures nor the defunct releasing company "Seven Arts", an early 1990s joint venture between Carolco Pictures and New Line Cinema (the latter which subsequently merged into Warner Bros.), is related to the original Seven Arts Productions.

Select filmography

The Gun Runners (1958); with United Artists
Thunder in the Sun (1959); with Paramount Pictures
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959); with United Artists
The Misfits (1961); with United Artists
By Love Possessed (1961); with United Artists
West Side Story (1961); with United Artists
The Count of Monte Cristo (1961)
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961)
Gigot (1962); with Twentieth Century Fox
Lolita (1962); with MGM
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); with Warner Bros.
Two for the Seesaw (1962); with United Artists
The Main Attraction (1962); with MGM
The Wild Affair (1963); with Bryanston Films & British Lion Films
Sunday in New York (1963); with MGM
Rampage (1963); with Warner Bros.
Tamahine (1963); with MGM
The Night of the Iguana (1964); with MGM
Of Human Bondage (1964); with MGM
Never Put It in Writing (1964); with Allied Artists Pictures
Seven Days in May (1964); with Paramount Pictures
A Global Affair (1964); with MGM
Promise Her Anything (1965); with Paramount Pictures
The Nanny (1965); with Hammer Films
The Hill (1965); with MGM
Is Paris Burning? (1966); with Paramount Pictures
The Defector (1966)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966); with Hammer Films
One Million Years B.C. (1966); with Hammer Films
The Frozen Dead (1966)
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966); with Twentieth Century Fox
This Property Is Condemned (1966); with Paramount Pictures
Assault on a Queen (1966); with Paramount Pictures
Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966); with Hammer Films
The Reptile (1966); with Hammer Films
The Plague of the Zombies (1966); with Hammer Films
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
Drop Dead Darling (1966); with Paramount Pictures
Once Before I Die (1966)
Slave Girls (1967); with Hammer Films
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967); with Paramount Pictures
The Viking Queen (1967); with Hammer Films
The Dirty Dozen (1967); with MGM
The Shuttered Room (1967)
It! (1967)
A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967); with Hammer Films
The Anniversary (1968); with Hammer Films
The Vengeance of She (1968); with Hammer Films
The Lost Continent (1968); with Hammer Films
The Devil Rides Out (1968); with Hammer Films

Theatre credits

The World of Suzie Wong (1958–60)
Everybody Loves Opal (1961)
Funny Girl (1964–67)
Any Wednesday (1964–66)
The Owl and the Pussycat (1964–65)

References

Hoyt, Eric (3 July 2014). Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries Before Home Video. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520282636.
Warner Sperling, Cass (Director) (2008). The Brothers Warner (DVD film documentary). Warner Sisters, Inc. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016.

External links

Seven Arts Productions at the Internet Broadway Database

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[:0-1] Hoyt, Eric (3 July 2014). Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries Before Home Video. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520282636.

[2] Warner Sperling, Cass (Director) (2008). The Brothers Warner (DVD film documentary). Warner Sisters, Inc. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016.