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'''Allied Artists International, Inc.''' ('''AAI''') is an American ] mass media and ] corporation headquartered in ], ], ], producing and distributing motion pictures, recorded music, broadcast television, online streaming, video games, and other media products.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.alliedartists.com |title=Allied Artists Website |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0023951/ |title=IMDb Listing for Allied Artists Pictures |website=] |access-date=8 September 2010}}</ref> The company is the successor to ] (formerly known as Monogram Pictures Corporation).<ref></ref><ref></ref> In the year 2000, AAI divided its media products into three distinct wholly owned divisions, ] (AAFG), ] (AAMG) and ] (AAMVD).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thehollywooddigest.com/whats-old-may-be-new-again-allied-artists-music-group-is-rebuilding-an-old-and-familiar-brand-in-a-digital-age/ |title=What's Old May Be New Again - Allied Artists Music Group is Rebuilding an Old and Familiar Brand in a Digital Age |date=January 12, 2021 |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://losangeles.splashmags.com/index.php/2020/12/09/interview-kim-richards-allied-artists-music-group/#gsc.tab=0 |title=Interview: Kim Richards – Allied Artists Music Group |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref> Then, around 2020, AAI reorganized itself into four divisions: ], ], Allied Artists Films & ], & Allied Artists Broadcasting & ].<ref name="alliedartistsinternational">{{cite web |title=Allied Artists {{!}} About {{!}} History {{!}} Objectives {{!}} Management |url=https://www.alliedartists.com/about/ |website=Allied Artists |language=en |quote=ALLIED ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL, INC. consists of four divisions: ALLIED ARTISTS MUSIC GROUP (records, publishing, soundtracks, distribution, etc.); ALLIED ARTISTS FILM GROUP, consisting of ALLIED ARTISTS PICTURES; ALLIED ARTISTS FILMS & MONOGRAM PICTURES; ALLIED ARTISTS BROADCASTING (television production) and ALLIED ARTISTS MUSIC & VIDEO DISTRIBUTION.}}</ref> Allied Artists Pictures (the flagship AAFG studio) is known for having produced and released such historic motion pictures as '']'', starring ] and ]; '']'', starring ] and ]; and '']'', starring ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/theatrical-distributors/allied-artists |title=The Numbers |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>
'''Allied Artists International, Inc.''' is the new name for Allied Artists Records, notable for its use in the 1980's activities of its owner, Kimball Dean Richardson, currently president and CEO.<ref name= REFOIF/><ref name=RPG15Y/><ref name=PBSCFYASM/> On April 1, 2001, Allied Artists Records changed its name to Allied Artists International, Inc. and assigned its trademarks to reflect the corporate name change.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=tm&reel=4085&frame=0378 |title=Trademark Assignment Details |author=|date= |work= |publisher=United States Patent and Trademark Office |accessdate=8 September 2010}}</ref>{{or|date=April 2011}}


==History== ==History==
⚫ ===Allied Artists Records===


===Monogram Pictures===
In 1988, Allied Artists Records claimed recording artists such as ], ], ], and ].<ref name= REFOIF>''"RECORDING EXECUTIVE, FIVE OTHERS INDICTED FOR FRAUD - A recording company executive and five other people were indicted Wednesday in a $23 million bank fraud that federal officials called one of the largest ever prosecuted nationwide. Kimball Dean Richards, 32, of Santa Fe Springs, and five others participated in a scam to sell leases on non-existent recording equipment to 15 banks and savings and loans between August 1985 and January 1987, according to the indictment.Richards, the son of former state Sen. Richard Richards... firm, Consolidated Allied Companies, operated Allied Artists Records… in Studio City... company claimed... Lionel Richie, Lawrence Welk, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent...", Daily News of Los Angeles, May 12, 1988, Page: N10, KAREN E. KLEIN Daily News Staff Writer, </ref> In 2000, it was announced that Allied Artists Records would issue a Spanish Language recording by actor ].<ref name=LATMR>"Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff will release his first Spanish- language album later this year on Allied Artists Records”, MORNING REPORT; ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION'S PRESS; TELEVISION, Los Angeles Times, Aug 26, 2000, </ref>
{{main|Monogram Pictures}}
Producer ] began at ] after World War II as assistant to studio head Samuel "Steve" Broidy. He convinced Broidy that the days of low-budget films were ending, and in 1946, Monogram created a new unit, Allied Artists Productions, to make costlier films.<ref>p. 164 Balio, Tino ''United Artists, Volume 2, 1951–1978: The Company That Changed the Film Industry'' Univ of Wisconsin Press, 8 Apr. 2009</ref> At a time when the average Hollywood picture cost about $800,000 (and the average Monogram picture cost about $90,000), Allied Artists' first release, '']'' (1947), cost more than $1,200,000.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Out Hollywood Way|work=New York Times|date=September 8, 1946|page=X1}}</ref> Subsequent Allied Artists releases were more economical but did have enhanced production value, with many being filmed in color. In July 1948 Monogram reported a loss of $978,000. The following year the loss was $850,000, although Broidy thought the company would go into profit the following year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Monogram pictures will show profit in fiscal year 1950, official says. |date=Jul 12, 1949|work=Wall Street Journal|id={{ProQuest|131783153}}}}</ref> The studio's new policy permitted what Mirisch called "B-plus" pictures, which were released along with Monogram's established line of B fare. In September 1952, Monogram announced that henceforth it would only produce films bearing the Allied Artists name. The studio ceased making movies under the Monogram brand name in 1953 (although it was reactivated by AAI by the millennium).<ref>{{Cite news|title=Inquisitr News |url=https://www.inquisitr.com/2392709/river-raft-nightmare-lifetime-movie-true-story-happened-before-ivan-sergei-leah-bateman-fred-olan-ray/ |website=inquisitr.com |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref> The parent company became Allied Artists, with Monogram Pictures becoming an operating division.<ref>{{cite web|title=Duke Filmography |url=http://www.dukefilmography.com/monogram_pictures_library.html |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>


==Allied Artists Inernal Police Department probe== ===Allied Artists Pictures===
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The 1987 badges of Allied Artists Internal Police Department look just like those of the Los Angeles Police Department.<ref name =SAPPSFC/> The Allied Artists Internal Police Department ID cards in 1987 looked just like those of LAPD were signed by Jerry S. Miller, its Chief of Police, who helped with Richard’s surveillance 1984 business.<ref name =SAPPSFC>” According to , the security firm was apparently operated separately from the other Consolidated companies and is not named in the Union Bank lawsuit. But after news reports last week about the lawsuit, investigators for the Police Commission visited the Consolidated offices in Los Angeles and Orange County. They examined the security firm's badges, ID cards and license-plate documents that were found by court officers who had been dispatched to secure the buildings in connection with the lawsuit. The badges and ID cards found at the Consolidated offices are a facsimile of those used by the Los Angeles Police Department, according to Police Commission investigator Lt. John Ferguson.” "We would never authorize that kind of badge-you can't have any connotation at all that you are a police department," said Ernest Luzania, deputy chief with the Bureau of Collections and Investigative Services of the Department of Consumer Affairs. The ID cards are signed by Jerry S. Miller, who is identified as the "Chief of Police" of the Allied Artists Internal Police Department. Miller could not be reached for comment Wednesday., State Asked to Probe Private Security Firm Commission Says Badges and ID Cards Closely Resemble LAPD's, WILLIAM K. KNOEDELSEDER Jr., Los Angeles Times, Feb 5, 1987</ref>
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Allied Artists did retain a few vestiges of its Monogram identity, continuing its popular ] action series (through 1953), its B-Westerns (through 1954), its ] adventures (through 1955), and especially its breadwinning comedy series with ] (through 1957 with Clements replacing ]). For the most part, however, Allied Artists was heading in new, ambitious directions under Mirisch.<ref name= OAC>{{cite web|title=OAC Online Archive of California, collection No. 1146 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft7r29p02n/ |website=oac.cdlib.org|access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref> Between 1951 and 1952, Broidy announced ] would be head of productions and would make 45 films.<ref>{{Cite news|title=MONOGRAM LISTS 45 FEATURE FILMS|author=THOMAS M PRYOR|date=Sep 7, 1951|work=New York Times|id={{ProQuest|111967481}}}}</ref> For a time in the mid-1950s the Mirisch family had great influence at Allied Artists, with Walter as executive producer, his brother Marvin as head of sales, and brother Harold as corporate treasurer. They pushed the studio into big-budget filmmaking, signing contracts with ], ], ] and ].<ref>{{Cite news|author=N., R. |date=Mar 24, 1955|title=Plans at allied artists|work=The Christian Science Monitor|id={{ProQuest|509235493}}}}</ref>
== Executives ==
But when their first big-name productions, Wyler's '']'' and Wilder's '']'' were box-office flops in 1956–57, studio-head Broidy retreated into the kind of pictures Monogram had always favored: low-budget action and thrillers. Mirisch Productions then had success releasing their films through ].<ref name= OAC /> In March 1965 Allied reported a loss of $1,512,000. The previous year they recorded a loss of $161,000. A shareholder revolt saw Broidy replaced as chairman by Claude Giroux in February 1965. Broidy resigned from the company in August of 1965 to become a producer.<ref>{{cite news|date=Aug 18, 1965|title=Allied artists' chairman, steve broidy, resigns to become film maker|work=Wall Street Journal|id={{ProQuest|133004322}}}}</ref> Allied Artists paused productions in 1966 and became a distributor of foreign films, but restarted productions with the 1972 release of '']'' and followed it the next year with '']''. Both were critical and commercial successes, but high production and financing costs meant they were not big money makers for Allied. In 1975 Allied distributed the French import film version of '']'' but spent much of its earnings defending itself from obscenity charges.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Simon & Schuster|title=Lost illusions: American cinema in the shadow of Watergate and ..., Volume 9|author=David A. Cook|page=325}}</ref> ] pioneer ] dedicated his 1960 film '']'' to Monogram, citing the studio's films as a major influence.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Powers|first1=John|title=Breathless|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/875-breathless|website=The Criterion Collection|access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>


Allied Artists Pictures became insolvent in 1979 as a result of runaway inflation and high production costs, forcing it to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.<ref></ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://thehollywooddigest.com/whats-old-may-be-new-again-allied-artists-music-group-is-rebuilding-an-old-and-familiar-brand-in-a-digital-age/|title=Hollywood Digest Magazine |author=Don Peterson |date=11 January 2021 |publisher=Hollywood Digest |accessdate=12 January 2021}}</ref> Allied Artists Records, which was an unaffected wholly owned subsidiary of Allied Artists Pictures, acquired many of the bankrupt entity's trademark related intellectual property assets and sought to expand its trademark and service mark rights to include all forms of entertainment, including those properties previously held by Allied Artists Pictures. A select grouping of the post August 17, 1946 Monogram/Allied Artists library was bought by television producer ]. Today, a majority of the Lorimar library, including those acquired from Allied Artists Pictures, belongs to ].<ref>{{cite web|title=In Re Allied Artists Pictures Corp., 71 B.R. 445 (S.D.N.Y. 1987)|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/BR/71/445/1928607/ |website=Justia |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=10 May 1988|title=Warner Agrees to Buy Lorimar for $700 Million|work=Newspaper Article|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-10-mn-2585-story.html |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>
Kimball Dean Richards is the president and CEO of Allied Artists International. Kimball Dean Richards owned a security guard business in Los Angeles in the late 1970's, and made the news for his methods of resolving employee problems.<ref name=PBSCFYASM/> In 1984, Richards had been installing surveillance devices in government offices, and owned Allied Artist Recording.<ref name=PBSCFYASM>Phone ‘Buggings’ Suspect Charged four years ago for Soliciting Murder Contract, “The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office did not conduct a background check on a man who helped investigate the alleged ‘bugging’ of sheriff’s office telephones, and therefore did not discover that the man had been charged with attempting to hire someone to carry out a murder, The Miner has learned… Kimball Dean Richards was charged with solicitation of committing murder, a felony offence for allegedly trying to hire an employee ofAlliedhis Los Angeles security guard business to kill another employee… Richards now owns Allied Artists Records – a recording and promotional company in Los Angeles.”, Mohave Miner, 7-13-1984</ref> In 1984, Richards was in a rock group called the ].<ref>“Jerry S. Miller… and Kim D. Richards, also of Los Angeles, are charged with computer fraud and fraudulent schemes… Richards’ whereabouts are unknown, Doherty said, adding he called Richards Monday and a secretary of Allied Artist Recording in Los Angeles said he was out of town performing with a rock group, the Renegades. Authorities in Western states have been notified of the warrant… Police Chief Carroll Brown said Miller and Richards may have felt confident they could pull off the bugging scam… ‘They never figured we’d call in the FBI and the phone system manuracturer’, Brown said… Doherty said three people, who work in the bugging field in California, also told him they were contacted by Miller and Richards in October and informed that if they wanted to make ‘some money they should come to Mohave County because it was bugged’.” 1 Of 2 'bugging' Suspects Expected To Turn Self In, Mohave Daily Miner - Jun 26, 1984</ref> Kimball Richards formed a partnership with ] in 1985 called Allied Artists/Riviera Broadcast Leasing.<ref name=DRCBI>Defunct Record Company Besieged by Investigations, WILLIAM K. KNOEDELSEDER Jr., Los Angeles Times, 3-30-1987</ref> Kim Richards was a rock music promoter and began to receive widespread press coverage in 1987, for his work with Allied Artists Records from 1985 to 1987.<ref name=TRCECBF>''"Named in a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles by the FBI were Kimball Dean Richards, 30, president of Consolidated Allied Cos., and Robert Leslie Abernathy, 44, Consolidated Allied's vice president of finance. Abernathy was arrested Thursday morning at Whittier Union High School, where he is employed as a mathematics teacher. Richards later turned himself in at the U.S. Marshal's office in Los Angeles. In February, 30 investigators and a 10-member special weapons team from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department searched the Whittier home of Richards and seized financial documents and a number of weapons, including four Uzi automatic pistols. Investigators also searched the homes of a number of Consolidated Allied employees-including Abernathy-and several companies that provided Consolidated Allied with lease financing and equipment... '', Two Record Firm Executives Charged With Bank Fraud, WILLIAM K. KNOEDELSEDER Jr., Los Angeles Times, 5-15-1987</ref><ref name=RPG15Y>''"Rock music promoter Kimball D. Richards, who was convicted in March of defrauding 14 financial institutions out of $23 million in an audio equipment leasing scheme, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in jail, followed by five years probation. Calling Richards 'the biggest liar that ever walked into my courtroom', U.S. District Judge Manuel Real also ordered the 34-year-old Santa Fe Springs man to pay an undetermined amount of restitution for his March 8 conviction on 11 counts of mail and wire fraud and four counts of bank fraud."'', Rock Promoter Gets 15 Years in Audio Gear Leasing Scam", JUBE SHIVER Jr., Los Angeles Times, 5-1-1990</ref> Federal officials called Richards' Allied Artists Records entertainment operations between 1985 and 1987 one of the largest of its kind ever in the nation.<ref name=REFOIF>RECORDING EXECUTIVE, FIVE OTHERS INDICTED for FRAUD, ''"A recording company executive and five other people were indicted Wednesday in a $23 million bank fraud that federal officials called one of the largest ever prosecuted nationwide. Kimball Dean Richards, 32, of Santa Fe Springs, and five others participated in a scam to sell leases on non-existent recording equipment to 15 banks and savings and loans between August 1985 and January 1987, according to the indictment. Richards, the son of former state Sen. Richard Richards...'', Daily News of Los Angeles, 5-12-1988</ref> A federal court judge commented on how outstanding Richards was in his own court.<ref name=RPG15Y/> But by 1987, Allied Artists Records was defunct, and Kim Richards had to take a leave of absence from Hollywood in 1989, set to be 15 year long.<ref name=DRCBI/><ref name=RPG15Y/> However, he returned to an Allied Artists early release, and began using the Allied name and conducting entertainment business in 2000, signing a contract for a share in Merit Diversified International, dba Mp3 Enrertainment.com, on 4-27-2000, Inc.<ref>Stock Purchase and Exchange Agreement, Supplement to SEC filing of Allied Entertainment Group</ref>{{or}} The federal government registered a new trademark for Allied Artists Records on Christmas Day, 2001.<ref>Allied Artists Records, Inc. a Nevada Corporation, 273 WEST ALLEN AVENUE, SAN DIMAS, CA 91773, United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 2,522,770, BRETT J. GOLDEN, EXAMINING ATTORNEY</ref>{{or}} Kimball Dean Richards is the son of former California Senator ].<ref name=PBSCFYASM/>


⚫ ===Allied Artists Records===
Music and film executive Robert Fitzpatrick joined Allied Artists in 1999, and died in October 2010. Following Fitzpatrick’s death, Kim Richards took over as president and CEO. In an interview, Richards claimed to be a young television soundtrack engineer in the 1970’s, claimed that he earned a gold record, and claimed that Fitzpatrick helped him.<ref name=MFERFD>''“’I've known Robert since the late 1970s when he helped a young television soundtrack engineer earn his first gold record,’ said Kim Richards, Allied Artists International CEO & chairman. ‘The engineer was me, and I've had the distinct honor and privilege of walking in Robert's wake ever since. Regardless of the heights this company reaches in the future, they will never be the same without Robert Fitzpatrick by my side.’"'', Music and Film Executive Robert Fitzpatrick Dies, The Hollywood Reporter, 10/27/2010, </ref>
{{main|Allied Artists Music Group}}

Prior to 1971, soundtracks were informally released under the "Allied Artists Records" or "Allied Artists Music" names. Allied Artists Records was officially formed by Allied Artists Pictures in 1971 to become the motion picture soundtrack releasing vehicle for its distributed motion pictures.<ref></ref> By 1988, Allied Artists Records laid historical claim to recording artists such as ], ], ], ], and ]. Allied Artists Records' historical roster and catalog includes ], ], ], ] and ].<ref></ref><ref name= HD1>{{cite web |url=http://thehollywooddigest.com/whats-old-may-be-new-again-allied-artists-music-group-is-rebuilding-an-old-and-familiar-brand-in-a-digital-age/|title=Hollywood Digest Magazine |author=Don Peterson |date=11 January 2021 |publisher=Hollywood Digest |accessdate=12 January 2021}}</ref> In 2000, it was announced that Allied Artists Records would issue a Spanish-language recording by David Hasselhoff.<ref name=LATMR>{{Cite news|title="Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff will release his first Spanish- language album later this year on Allied Artists Records", MORNING REPORT |work=Los Angeles Times|date=Aug 26, 2000|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/58806731.html?dids=58806731:58806731&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+26%2C+2000&author=DIANE+HAITHMAN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=MORNING+REPORT%3B+ARTS+AND+ENTERTAINMENT+REPORTS+FROM+THE+TIMES%2C+NEWS+SERVICES+AND+THE+NATION%27S+PRESS%3B+TELEVISION&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201030210/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/58806731.html?dids=58806731:58806731&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+26,+2000&author=DIANE+HAITHMAN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=MORNING+REPORT;+ARTS+AND+ENTERTAINMENT+REPORTS+FROM+THE+TIMES,+NEWS+SERVICES+AND+THE+NATION'S+PRESS;+TELEVISION&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2013}}</ref> As the anchor AAMG label, Allied Artists Records, takes its name and history from the original motion picture soundtrack label by the same name, established by Allied Artists Pictures in 1971. Today, Allied Artists Records remains as a mainstream anchor imprint, together with its wholly autonomous target market imprints, Allied Artists Music Co., Monogram Records, Brimstone Records and Vista Records. Shortly thereafter, Allied Artists Records formally consolidated each of its imprint labels into "Allied Artists Music Group" in a cost-cutting measure designed to maximize distribution strength.<ref name= HD1 /> All music and home video offerings are distributed by way of the AAMVD global distribution network.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alliedartists.com/interactive-map/ |title=AAMVD Interactive Global Distribution Map |date=June 15, 2020 |access-date=November 27, 2020}}</ref><ref name= HD1 />

===Allied Artists Music & Video Distribution===

Allied Artists Pictures was among the first motion picture studios to self-distribute films for both itself and small independent film makers. In 1971, with the formation of Allied Artists Records, the company utilized ] for domestic distribution of motion picture soundtracks. By the millennium, Allied Artists Records had developed its own robust global distribution network. As the distribution of motion pictures through major studios became cost prohibitive, Allied Artists Pictures began rediscovering its independent distribution roots. Simultaneous to restructuring the company's music holdings under Allied Artists Music Group, the motion picture holdings were restructured under Allied Artists Film Group. Both the music and film groups had their own forms of distribution, much of which overlapped. AAI, parent to both the film and music groups elected to merge both distribution arms into "Allied Artists Music & Video Distribution" (AAMVD).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alliedartists.com/distribution/ |title=AAMVD |date=June 15, 2020 |access-date=November 27, 2020}}</ref> Today, all music and home video offerings are distributed by way of the AAMVD global distribution network.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alliedartists.com/interactive-map/ |title=AAMVD Interactive Global Distribution Map |date=June 15, 2020 |access-date=November 27, 2020}}</ref><ref name= HD1 />


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American movie studio and motion picture distributor

Allied Artists International, Inc.
AAI's headquarters in Glendale, California
Company typeCorporation
IndustryEntertainment
FoundedSouthern California (1979), successor-in-interest to Allied Artists Pictures Corporation (1946)
FoundersRobert Abernathy
Richard B. Smith
HeadquartersLos Angeles &
New York City
Key peopleKim Richards, CEO & Co-Chairman
Mark Beychok, Co-Chairman
ProductsMotion pictures, Television production, Music, Music publishing, Entertainment, Television syndication, Online games, Mobile entertainment, Video on demand, Digital distribution
Divisions
SubsidiariesAllied Artists Pictures
Websitealliedartists.com

Allied Artists International, Inc. (AAI) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment corporation headquartered in Glendale, California, United States, producing and distributing motion pictures, recorded music, broadcast television, online streaming, video games, and other media products. The company is the successor to Allied Artists Pictures Corporation (formerly known as Monogram Pictures Corporation). In the year 2000, AAI divided its media products into three distinct wholly owned divisions, Allied Artists Film Group (AAFG), Allied Artists Music Group (AAMG) and Allied Artists Music & Video Distribution (AAMVD). Then, around 2020, AAI reorganized itself into four divisions: Allied Artists Music Group, Allied Artists Film Group, Allied Artists Films & Monogram Pictures, & Allied Artists Broadcasting & Allied Artists Music & Video Distribution. Allied Artists Pictures (the flagship AAFG studio) is known for having produced and released such historic motion pictures as Cabaret, starring Joel Grey and Liza Minnelli; Papillon, starring Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen; and The Betsy, starring Laurence Olivier, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, and Katharine Ross.

History

Monogram Pictures

Main article: Monogram Pictures

Producer Walter Mirisch began at Monogram Pictures after World War II as assistant to studio head Samuel "Steve" Broidy. He convinced Broidy that the days of low-budget films were ending, and in 1946, Monogram created a new unit, Allied Artists Productions, to make costlier films. At a time when the average Hollywood picture cost about $800,000 (and the average Monogram picture cost about $90,000), Allied Artists' first release, It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947), cost more than $1,200,000. Subsequent Allied Artists releases were more economical but did have enhanced production value, with many being filmed in color. In July 1948 Monogram reported a loss of $978,000. The following year the loss was $850,000, although Broidy thought the company would go into profit the following year. The studio's new policy permitted what Mirisch called "B-plus" pictures, which were released along with Monogram's established line of B fare. In September 1952, Monogram announced that henceforth it would only produce films bearing the Allied Artists name. The studio ceased making movies under the Monogram brand name in 1953 (although it was reactivated by AAI by the millennium). The parent company became Allied Artists, with Monogram Pictures becoming an operating division.

Allied Artists Pictures

1956 Friendly Persuasion poster
1972 Cabaret poster

Allied Artists did retain a few vestiges of its Monogram identity, continuing its popular Stanley Clements action series (through 1953), its B-Westerns (through 1954), its Bomba, the Jungle Boy adventures (through 1955), and especially its breadwinning comedy series with The Bowery Boys (through 1957 with Clements replacing Leo Gorcey). For the most part, however, Allied Artists was heading in new, ambitious directions under Mirisch. Between 1951 and 1952, Broidy announced Walter Mirisch would be head of productions and would make 45 films. For a time in the mid-1950s the Mirisch family had great influence at Allied Artists, with Walter as executive producer, his brother Marvin as head of sales, and brother Harold as corporate treasurer. They pushed the studio into big-budget filmmaking, signing contracts with William Wyler, John Huston, Billy Wilder and Gary Cooper. But when their first big-name productions, Wyler's Friendly Persuasion and Wilder's Love in the Afternoon were box-office flops in 1956–57, studio-head Broidy retreated into the kind of pictures Monogram had always favored: low-budget action and thrillers. Mirisch Productions then had success releasing their films through United Artists. In March 1965 Allied reported a loss of $1,512,000. The previous year they recorded a loss of $161,000. A shareholder revolt saw Broidy replaced as chairman by Claude Giroux in February 1965. Broidy resigned from the company in August of 1965 to become a producer. Allied Artists paused productions in 1966 and became a distributor of foreign films, but restarted productions with the 1972 release of Cabaret and followed it the next year with Papillon. Both were critical and commercial successes, but high production and financing costs meant they were not big money makers for Allied. In 1975 Allied distributed the French import film version of Story of O but spent much of its earnings defending itself from obscenity charges. French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard dedicated his 1960 film Breathless to Monogram, citing the studio's films as a major influence.

Allied Artists Pictures became insolvent in 1979 as a result of runaway inflation and high production costs, forcing it to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Allied Artists Records, which was an unaffected wholly owned subsidiary of Allied Artists Pictures, acquired many of the bankrupt entity's trademark related intellectual property assets and sought to expand its trademark and service mark rights to include all forms of entertainment, including those properties previously held by Allied Artists Pictures. A select grouping of the post August 17, 1946 Monogram/Allied Artists library was bought by television producer Lorimar Productions. Today, a majority of the Lorimar library, including those acquired from Allied Artists Pictures, belongs to Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Allied Artists Records

Main article: Allied Artists Music Group

Prior to 1971, soundtracks were informally released under the "Allied Artists Records" or "Allied Artists Music" names. Allied Artists Records was officially formed by Allied Artists Pictures in 1971 to become the motion picture soundtrack releasing vehicle for its distributed motion pictures. By 1988, Allied Artists Records laid historical claim to recording artists such as Elvis Presley, Lionel Richie, Lawrence Welk, Bob Seger, and Ted Nugent. Allied Artists Records' historical roster and catalog includes Exodus, Coolio, Luis Cardenas, David Hasselhoff and Renegade. In 2000, it was announced that Allied Artists Records would issue a Spanish-language recording by David Hasselhoff. As the anchor AAMG label, Allied Artists Records, takes its name and history from the original motion picture soundtrack label by the same name, established by Allied Artists Pictures in 1971. Today, Allied Artists Records remains as a mainstream anchor imprint, together with its wholly autonomous target market imprints, Allied Artists Music Co., Monogram Records, Brimstone Records and Vista Records. Shortly thereafter, Allied Artists Records formally consolidated each of its imprint labels into "Allied Artists Music Group" in a cost-cutting measure designed to maximize distribution strength. All music and home video offerings are distributed by way of the AAMVD global distribution network.

Allied Artists Music & Video Distribution

Allied Artists Pictures was among the first motion picture studios to self-distribute films for both itself and small independent film makers. In 1971, with the formation of Allied Artists Records, the company utilized Warner Bros. Records for domestic distribution of motion picture soundtracks. By the millennium, Allied Artists Records had developed its own robust global distribution network. As the distribution of motion pictures through major studios became cost prohibitive, Allied Artists Pictures began rediscovering its independent distribution roots. Simultaneous to restructuring the company's music holdings under Allied Artists Music Group, the motion picture holdings were restructured under Allied Artists Film Group. Both the music and film groups had their own forms of distribution, much of which overlapped. AAI, parent to both the film and music groups elected to merge both distribution arms into "Allied Artists Music & Video Distribution" (AAMVD). Today, all music and home video offerings are distributed by way of the AAMVD global distribution network.

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