Castle Rock Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn. Originally an independent company, today, it is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which in turn is a unit of Time Warner.
Reiner named the company in honor of the fictional Maine town from the book The Dead Zone written by Stephen King (which was named after the ficti...
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Castle Rock Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn. Originally an independent company, today, it is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which in turn is a unit of Time Warner.
Reiner named the company in honor of the fictional Maine town from the book The Dead Zone written by Stephen King (which was named after the fictional Castle Rock in Lord of the Flies), after the success of the film Stand by Me, which was based on The Body, a novella by King. The first major Castle Rock release was When Harry Met Sally… (The name was first used, however, on the film Winter People).
The company was backed by Columbia Pictures and Nelson Entertainment. Nelson was primarily interested because of some of the founders' relations with the company. Horn and Shafer previously were with Embassy Pictures; Nelson later acquired that company's library. Reiner filmed two successful...
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