Embassy Pictures

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Embassy Pictures Corporation (also known as Avco Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution company, which was active from 1942 to 1986. Embassy was responsible for films such as The Graduate, The Producers, The Fog, The Howling, Escape from New York, This Is Spinal Tap, and Swamp Thing, and television series such as The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, and The Facts of Life. Embassy was founded in 1942 by Joseph E. Levine as a foreign film distributor, before branching into film production in 1945. In 1967, Embassy was acquired by Avco. The company struggled in the 1970s before changing focus to lower-budget genre films at the end of the decade. In 1982, television producer Norman Lear and his partner Jerry Perenchio bought the studio, and it became involved in television production. In 1985, Embassy was sold to The Coca-Cola Company, who sold the studio to Dino De Laurentiis in October of that same year. Today, StudioCanal...

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