| Company type | Limited Partnership |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 8, 1983[1] |
| Founder | Roland W. Betts |
| Defunct | 1992 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Successor | Touchwood Pacific Partners |
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Silver Screen Partners refers to four limited partnerships[a] organized as an alternative funding source for film production originally formed by American investor Roland W. Betts as a collaboration with cable television network HBO in 1983. The managing general partner for the partnerships was Silver Screen Management, Inc.[2]
Silver Screen Partners entered into an agreement with The Walt Disney Company beginning in 1985 to collaborate with the Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Hollywood Pictures, and Touchstone Pictures studios to produce works such as The Great Mouse Detective; Return to Oz; The Black Cauldron; Volunteers; Down and Out in Beverly Hills; Three Men and a Baby; Good Morning, Vietnam; Cocktail; Oliver & Company; Dead Poets Society; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Turner & Hooch; The Little Mermaid; Pretty Woman; Dick Tracy; The Rescuers Down Under; Beauty and the Beast; and Encino Man. Despite a string of successful films, Silver Screen Partners became defunct in 1992.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush was a member of Silver Screen Management, Inc.'s board of directors from 1983 to 1993. When Bush first ran for president in 2000, his membership on the board was scrutinized by the media over his attacks on Hollywood's perceived "pervasiveness of violence", particularly regarding the financing of the cult thriller film The Hitcher.[3]
- ^ "Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934". SEC.gov. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 29, 1996. Archived from the original on July 1, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
- ^ "Form 15 - Silver Screen Partners, L.P." SEC.gov. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. December 29, 1998. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
- ^ "Bush Has a Tie to Media 'Depravity'". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. September 15, 2000. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
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