Manson International

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Manson International
Private
Industry Film
Fate Sold to Management Company Entertainment Group.
Founded 1953
Founder
  • Edmund Goldman
  • Sam Nathanson
Defunct 1987
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people
Michael Goldman

Manson International was an independent American film production company and distributor. The name was derived from the founders' surnames. Initially a distributor of foreign films, it became one of the pioneer film sales agencies in the country.[1][2]

History

Manson was founded in 1953 by former Columbia Pictures executive Edmund Goldman and Sam Nathanson as Manson Distributing Corporation. It initially focused on distributing foreign films in the United States. Among its films distributed was Godzilla. By the time it was incorporated in 1962, it began distributing primarily sex trip movies, where its features were marked as either "hard" or "soft". In 1975, Edmund' son Michael took over the company and shifted it into marketing and international licensing of independent films.

By the early 80s, Manson became Manson International and ventured into film production with Radioactive Dreams.[3][4][2] In 1984, the company entered and ventured into international television and ventured into the film package business at MIP-TV and could take advantage of the larger library it uses.[5] That year, it entered a classics division, Manson Classics, whose aim is to market specialized pictures that required special handling, and it would be handled by Peter Elson.[6] At its peak, Manson International held the distribution rights to the libraries of Intercontinental Releasing Corporation[7][8] and Moviestore Entertainment.[9]

In 1987, Manson was sold to Management Company Entertainment Group, a production company owned by Jonathan D. Krane. Under Manson, the company invested significant debt, which included its debut at the MIFED, and Kathryn Cass became president of the unit when MCEG took over the Manson International division after more than 30 years as a privately owned firm and eleven of the fifteen pictures represent genre pictures.[10] As a result, Intercontinental Releasing switched distribution to United Film Distribution Company.[11] In 1995, MCEG and Orion Pictures merged to form Metromedia International Group. In 1997, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired Metromedia. MGM currently owns the Manson library.[12][1] The aforementioned Intercontinental Releasing titles were acquired separately in August 1998,[13][14]

List of films distributed outside North America

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