Beacon Pictures

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 capitalist Kevin O’Donnell purchased Beacon back for $19 million, restoring its independent company status.^[5][6]

Beacon also has a family film division, Beacon Family Films; it only produced one film to date, Uncle P.

Films

• The Commitments (1991)
• A Midnight Clear (1992)
• A Life in the Theatre (1993)
• Sugar Hill (1994)
• 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)
• Ladder 49 (2004)
• Raising Helen (2005)
• A Lot Like Love (2005)
• Firewall (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)

Television

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

References

External links

• Official website
• Beacon Communications at the Internet Movie Database