Vestron Pictures

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Vestron Pictures Inc.

Company type	Division
Industry	Film industry
Genre	Various
Founded	1986; 38 years ago (1986)
Founder	Steve Tisch Lawrence Turman Gene Kirkwood
Defunct	1992; 32 years ago (1992)
Fate	Parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, assets acquired by LIVE Entertainment
Successor	Lionsgate
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois , United States
Key people	Austin O. Furst Jr.
Products	Motion pictures
Owner	Vestron, Inc.
Parent	Vestron, Inc. (1986–1991) LIVE Entertainment (1991–1992)

Vestron Pictures Inc. was an American film studio and distributor, a former division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., that is best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing.^[1]

Vestron also has had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures, a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video, headed by Lawrence Kasanoff, who would later go on to found Lightstorm Entertainment and Threshold Entertainment.^[2]