Hollywood Pictures/Stay Alive

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    Originally Posted By SFH

    Okay, couldn't decide if this was for the Business/Current Events section or here, so here goes...

    So I see these ads for a PG-13 horror film called "Stay Alive", and it has the Hollywood Pictures logo. What gives?

    Sure enough, I go to the website, marketed as CanUStayAlive.com, but really leading to the Disney site: <a href="http://stayalive.movies.go.com/" target="_blank">http://stayalive.movies.go.com
    /</a>, where the "movie poster" fine print says "Hollywood Pictures" and the Hollywood Pictures logo is there, but the top of the page has "Touchstone Pictures" and THAT logo.

    Now I know the story is that Hollywood Pictures was created mainly to give an executive (and his ego) his own label to rule over when Disney was cranking out lot of "Touchstone" pictures, and so Hollywood Pictures was dicontinued years ago.

    Does anyone know why it has resurfaced? My *guess* is that since the Weinsteins took the "Dimension" label with them when they left, Disney plan on having the Hollywood label serve as the horror imprint. In that case, we should see more "Hollywood Pictures" again.

    Another, remote possibility is that this film was in the works for a looooong, long time and the Hollywood Pictures label, for some reason, was required to be attached.

    Inquiring minds want to know...

    Thanks,
    Ken Pellman
    SFH
    <a href="http://pellman.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://pellman.blogspot.com</a>
     

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