Orion Pictures information

Orion Releasing, LLC
	Logo used since July 20, 2022
Trade name	Orion Pictures
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film, television
Founded	January 1978; 46 years ago (original; as Orion Pictures Corporation); 2013; 11 years ago (relaunch; as Orion Releasing, LLC)
Founders	Arthur B. Krim; Eric Pleskow; Mike Medavoy; William Bernstein; Robert Benjamin;
Defunct	1999; 25 years ago (original)
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Alana Mayo (president); John Bryan; (president, MGM Domestic TV Distribution);
Products	Motion pictures
Brands	Orion Classics
Parent	Metromedia (1988–1997); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; (1997–2023); Amazon MGM Studios; (2023–present);
Divisions	Orion Classics

Orion Releasing, LLC (doing business as Orion Pictures) is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon. In its original operating period (then-known as Orion Pictures Corporation), the company produced and released films from 1978 until 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s. It was formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and three former senior executives at United Artists. From its founding until its buyout by MGM in the late 1990s, Orion was considered one of the largest mini-major studios.^[3]

Woody Allen, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Oliver Stone, and several other prominent directors worked with Orion during its most successful years from 1978 to 1992. Of the films distributed by Orion, four won Academy Awards for Best Picture: Amadeus (1984), Platoon (1986), Dances with Wolves (1990), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).^[4] Four other Orion films, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Mississippi Burning (1988), Women Talking (2022) and American Fiction (2023), were nominated for the aforementioned category.

Since 1997, Orion has been owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). In 2013, MGM revived the Orion name for television; a year later, Orion Pictures was relaunched by the studio.

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[3] Easton, Nina J. (July 19, 1990). "Whither Orion? : The Last of the Mini-Major Studios Finds Itself at a Crossroads". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 27, 2023.

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