Beacon Pictures

Beacon Pictures

Type	Film production
Founded	1990
Founder	Armyan Bernstein[1]
Headquarters	Santa Monica, California
Products	Motion pictures, television
Website	www.beaconpictures.com/

Beacon Pictures is an American film production and international sales company founded in 1990 by Armyan Bernstein,^[2] who is also its chairman.^[3] The company produces motion pictures for studios such as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Beacon was acquired in 1996 for $29 million by COMSAT, who one year later put the company under its Ascent Entertainment Group division. By early 1999, Ascent was about to be broken up due to financial problems, mostly steming from building the Pepsi Center in Denver.^[4] Bernstein and venture capitalists Kevin O’Donnell and convicted criminal Reed Slatkin purchased Beacon back for $19 million, restoring its independent company status.^[5][6]

Films

• The Commitments (1991)
• A Midnight Clear (1992)
• A Life in the Theatre (1993)
• Sugar Hill (1993)
• Princess Caraboo (1994)
• The Road to Wellville (1994)
• The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)
• The Van (1996)
• Air Force One (1997)
• A Thousand Acres (1997)
• Playing God (1997)
• Disturbing Behavior (1998)
• Trippin' (1999)
• For Love of the Game (1999)
• The Hurricane (1999)
• End of Days (1999)
• Duets (2000)
• The Family Man (2000)
• Bring It On (2000)
• Thirteen Days (2000)
• Spy Game (2001)
• Tuck Everlasting (2002)
• The Emperor's Club (2002)
• Open Range (2003)
• Ladder 49 (2004)
• Raising Helen (2004)
• A Lot Like Love (2005)
• Firewall (2006)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Uncle P (2007)
• Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
• The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)
• Mardi Gras: Spring Break (2011)
• Grey Lady (2015)
• Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack (2017)

Television

• The Earth Day Special (1990)
• Castle (2009–16)
• Agent X (2015)

References

External links

• Official website
• Beacon Communications on IMDbPro (subscription required)