Hemdale Film Corporation

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Hemdale Film Corporation
Fate became incorporated into Epic Productions (a part of Triumph Films)
Successor Epic Productions/Triumph Films
Founded 1970
Defunct 1995
Headquarters USA
Products movies
VHS tapes
Parent independent (1970-1995)
Epic Productions (1995-1998)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1998-present)

Hemdale Film Corporation (sometimes called Hemdale Releasing Corporation or Hemdale Pictures Corporation), known as Hemdale Communications after 1993, was an independent film production company and distributor founded in London in the early 1970s by David Hemmings and John Daly, headed by John Daly and Derek Gibson. It later became well known for the production of The Terminator (1984), Hoosiers (1986) and Platoon (1986), which all had the Orion logo instead of the Hemdale logo. Hemdale Film Corporation was later acquired by Triumph Films' Epic Productions subsidiary in 1995.

In 1991, Hemdale released a collection of many video cassette titles released by Hemdale Home Video around the United States of America. In 1995, with Epic's acquistion of Hemdale, Hemdale Home Video was bought by Columbia TriStar Home Video, but Hemdale's films were released on video by other companies, such as LIVE (now Artisan Entertainment)

After the studio's closing, the Hemdale library was incorporated into the Orion Pictures output now owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after MGM acquired Epic Productions from Sony/Triumph. Orion ironically originally released many of Hemdale's films. One key exception is The Last Emperor, a Hemdale production originally issued by Columbia Pictures, but whose rights are now held by its producer, Jeremy Thomas.

The company's last new credit was for the Virgin Games video game adaptation of The Terminator, which showed up on the game's start up screen as "Hemdale's The Terminator" in text on the scrolling logo, despite all box art calling it "The Terminator".

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