The Geffen Film Company
The Geffen Film Company is an American film distributor and production company founded by David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, and future co-founder of DreamWorks. The spherical Geffen Pictures logo, based on the logo of its record-label counterpart, was created by Saul Bass. Their most famous films are Risky Business, Little Shop of Horrors, Beetlejuice and its 2024 sequel, and Interview with the Vampire.
History
Geffen founded the company in 1982, having recruited Eric Eisner as president, and distributed its films through Warner Bros. Geffen was operated as a division of Warner Bros. As a result, following the original company's shutdown in 1998, Warner Bros. through The Geffen Company now owns the original company's library, with the exception of the 1996 Mike Judge comedy Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, which is owned by Paramount Pictures through Paramount Players and The Geffen Company.In 1990, The Geffen Film Company was renamed and reorganized as Geffen Pictures.
In 1993, Geffen and MTV Productions struck a two-picture deal.
The Geffen Pictures brand continued to be used on films by David Geffen until 1998, after the April release of The Butcher Boy, when it was folded into Warner Bros. film divisions. In 2024, the logo made a one-time revival as a legacy credit for the release of the long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, as a homage to the original film.