ELP Communications (television, logo, trademark and its copyrights)
Headquarters
1901 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, California
Products
Motion pictures
Parent
Independent (1942–1967)
Avco Corporation (1967–1982)
Embassy Communications, Inc. (1982–1985)
The Coca-Cola Company (June–October 1985)
Dino De Laurentiis Productions (1985–1986)
Divisions
Embassy Television
Embassy Home Entertainment
Charter Entertainment
Embassy Pictures Corporation (also and later known as Avco Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution studio, active from 1942 to 1986. Embassy was responsible for films such as The Graduate, The Producers, The Fog, The Howling, Escape from New York, and This Is Spinal Tap, Swamp Thing, and television series such as The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time and The Facts of Life.
Embassy was founded in 1942 by Joseph E. Levine as a foreign film distributor, before branching out into film production in 1945.
In 1967, Embassy was acquired by Avco. The company struggled in the 1970s before focusing on lower-budget genre films at the end of the decade. In 1982, television producer Norman Lear and his partner Jerry Perenchio bought the studio, and it became involved in television production. In 1985, Embassy was sold to The Coca-Cola Company, which sold the studio to Dino De Laurentiis in October of that same year.
Today, StudioCanal owns ancillary rights to the majority of Embassy's theatrical library, while Sony Pictures Television owns worldwide television syndication rights to the studio's films and TV shows.
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