Not to be confused with 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
21st Century Film Corporation was a small-scale theatrical distribution company formed sometime in the early 1970s as a production company and distributor.
It was formed sometime in 1971 as a production company and distributor.
The company had largely gone unnoticed for nearly twenty years when sometime in the late '80s, while filing for bankruptcy, it was purchased by Giancarlo Parretti. ...
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Not to be confused with 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
21st Century Film Corporation was a small-scale theatrical distribution company formed sometime in the early 1970s as a production company and distributor.
It was formed sometime in 1971 as a production company and distributor.
The company had largely gone unnoticed for nearly twenty years when sometime in the late '80s, while filing for bankruptcy, it was purchased by Giancarlo Parretti. Parretti had also recently purchased Cannon Films, and he eventually handed 21st Century Film Corporation over to Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan as part of Golan's severance package from Cannon.
Golan's goal was to release high-quality motion pictures to the American and worldwide film audiences, but 21st Century only enjoyed small-scale success releasing low-budget, art-house films like Eraserhead, as well as remakes of The Phantom of the Opera and Night of the Living Dead.
In 1990, 21st Century bought the film rights to two Marvel Comics...
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