The Geffen Film Company (also known as The Geffen Company, The Geffen Film Company, Inc., and later Geffen Pictures) was a film distributor and production company founded by David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, and future co-founder of DreamWorks. Geffen founded the company in 1982, having recruited Eric Eisner as president, and distributed its films through Warner Bros. Geffen operated it as a division of Warner Bros., and as a result, following The Geffen Film Company's shutdown in 1998, Warner Bros. now owns the company's library. However, the only Geffen Film Company title Warner Bros. does not own is the 1996 Mike Judge comedy Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, itself owned by Paramount Pictures via Paramount Animation and MTV Films.
The spherical Geffen Pictures logo (based on the logo of its record-label counterpart) was created by Saul Bass.
Filmography[]
Feature Films[]
- Personal Best (1982)
- Risky Business (1983)
- After Hours (1985)
- Lost in America (1985)
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- Men Don't Leave (1990)
- Defending Your Life (1991)
- M. Butterfly (1993)
- Interview with the Vampire (1994)
- Joe's Apartment (1996)
- Michael Collins (1996)
- The Butcher Boy (1997)
Television[]
- Beetlejuice (1989-1991; co production with Warner Bros. Television)
- Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996; co-production with HBO)