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Jul 31, 2023 · Mark Seiler, the former president of RKO Pictures and Hemdale Films and CEO of Capella Films, died July 7 after a long battle with Parkinson’s and complications from COVID-19. He was 75.
With a legacy that includes classic films like Citizen Kane, King Kong, and It’s a Wonderful Life, the modern RKO Pictures produces, finances and distributes both original entertainment and remakes of its classic films. RKO draws upon its brand and intellectual property assets to develop entertainment properties for production and distribution.
The new owner was more interested in RKO's film library as TV syndication fodder than in its production operation, whose output had fallen to barely a dozen pictures per annum, few of any real note. There were the Disney releases, including Treasure Island (1950) and Alice in Wonderland (1951), and the occasional quality noir thriller such as Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1952).
RKO Pictures (coneguda en el seu origen com RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.) és una companyia cinematogràfica estatunidenca, considerada un dels cinc grans estudis de l'època daurada de Hollywood. Es va fundar l'octubre de 1928, producte de la fusió del circuit de teatre de Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) ( 1882) i els estudis Film Booking Offices of ...
RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company. In its original incarnation, as RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (a subsidiary of Radio-Keith-Orpheum, aka: RKO) it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) theater chain and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) studio were brought ...
RKO Pictures eventually became a company owned by GenCorp sometime around 1985. This logo continued to be used during the days when the company was referred to as "RKO Teleradio Pictures." Arguably the most iconic of the bunch due to the appearances on Disney classics.
RKO Today DANCE, GIRL, DANCE with Laura Karpman and Nora Kroll Roberts RKO Pictures with Oscar-nominee Laura Karpman and Nora Kroll Roberts to adapt musical based on Dorothy Arzner’s classic film noir, originally starring Lucille Ball and Maureen O’Hara.
