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{{Infobox_Company | company_name = Touchstone Pictures | company_logo = ] | company_type = Subsidiary | parent = [Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, Inc. | owner = [The Walt Disney Company | foundation = Burbank, California, [United States ([) | location_city = Burbank, California | location_country = USA | key_people = [John E. Pepper, Jr., Chairman
[Robert Iger, President/CEO
| industry = [Motion pictures | products = | revenue = {{profit--> | operating_income = {{loss--> | homepage = http://touchstone.movies.go.com/index.html www.touchstonepictures.com -->Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. Its releases typically feature more mature themes than those that gets released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.Touchstone Pictures is merely a brand and does not exist as a separate company: the two de facto companies behind it are Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group and Walt Disney Pictures and TelevisionThe Walt Disney Company SEC filing Form 10-K For the Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006, page 15.

Background Walt Disney Productions' film The Black Hole (1979), a science fiction film that sparked controversy due to the fact that it was the first Disney production to receive a MPAA film rating system rating (the company, however, had already distributed its first PG-rated film, Take Down— without the Disney name visible —almost a year before the release of The Black Hole.) Over the next few years, Disney experimented with more PG-rated fare, such as the 1981 film Condorman, 1982's Tron (movie) and 1983's Never Cry Wolf (film) and Trenchcoat (film). The latter film attracted major criticism for including adult themes that were considered inappropriate for a Disney film.{{cite web| title=Trivia for ''Trenchcoat'' (1983) | publisher=IMDb | url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086476/triviar | accessdate=2006-11-23 --> The controversy over ''Trenchcoat'' is generally considered the catalyst that later sparked the creation of Touchstone Pictures. One title considered for the new company was "Hyperion Pictures," named after the location of the studio in the 1930s before the move to Burbank. Eventually, [Hyperion (publisher) would become the name of Disney's publishing arm.

Started by then Disney CEO Ron W. Miller in 1984, Touchstone's first release was Splash (film), a huge hit for Walt Disney Productions, grossing $68 million at the domestic boxoffice 1984 Yearly Chart for Domestic Grosses at boxofficemojo.com, Retrieved on May 25 2007.. Splash included brief nudity on the part of star Daryl Hannah and occasional inappropriate language, earning a PG-rating. Yet another Disney film label was started in 1990, Hollywood Pictures, with the release of Arachnophobia (film).

The Touchstone films became a top source of income for The Walt Disney Company during the 1980s and 1990s. Disney's first MPAA film rating system film, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, came in January of 1986 and was another smash. Ruthless People followed in April of 1986 and was also huge. Both of these pictures starred Bette Midler who had signed a six picture deal with Disney and became a major film star again with these hits as well as Beaches and Outrageous Fortune.

One of the key suppliers of Touchstone films within the last decade has been producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who has had a production deal with Disney since the early 90’sLev, Michael (January 18, 1991, Friday), 2 Top Movie Producers Sign Disney Accord, The New York Times Financial Desk. Late Edition - Final, Section D, Page 3, Column 1, 286 words, and his Touchstone titles include; The Ref, Con Air, Armageddon (film), Enemy of the State (film), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000 film), Coyote Ugly (film), Pearl Harbor (film), Bad Company (2002 film), Veronica Guerin (film), King Arthur (film) and Déjà Vu (film). In addition, Bruckheimer has also produced several other movies released under the Walt Disney Pictures and Hollywood Pictures labels.

Some other well-known Touchstone Pictures releases includes Dead Poets Society, Pretty Woman, Sister Act and The Insider (film).

Following the success of the Disney-branded PG-13 rated Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003 and other films which would in the 1980s and 90's have been assigned the Touchstone (or Hollywood Pictures) names. Disney has decided to weight distribution of films more toward Disney-branded films and away from Touchstone films, though not entirely disbanding themThe Walt Disney Company SEC filing Form 10-K For the Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006, page 15.

Many films from the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group have during the course of their prior release dates been shifting between the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures imprints before finally settling for one. Examples include; Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dick Tracy (film), The Rocketeer (film), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Santa Clause, Remember the Titans, Sweet Home Alabama (film), Bringing Down the House (film), National Treasure (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), Dark Water, Hidalgo (film) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Touchstone Television Disney's former non-Disney branded television division, Touchstone Television Productions, LLC (formerly known as Touchstone Pictures and Television (itself an alternate version of Walt Disney Pictures and Television) and later Touchstone Television), is known for being the production company of the series The Golden Girls, Blossom (TV series), Boy Meets World (all three began before Disney's ABC acquisition), My Wife and Kids, Desperate Housewives, Lost (TV series), Grey's Anatomy, and Scrubs (TV series).

On February 8 2007 at the Disney Investor Conference, Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney, announced that they would rebrand Touchstone Television to ABC Television Studio in order tie its successful productions more closely with the ABC brand. The announcement was made as part of a company-wide strategy to focus on three core brands, Disney, American Broadcasting Company and ESPN The Walt Disney Company News Release, "Disney-ABC Television Group Renames Television Studio". Retrieved on May 25 2007. In May 2007, the television production company yet again changed its name, this time to ABC Studios.

List of Touchstone Pictures features 1980s {| class="wikitable"|+|-! width="170"|Title !! width="90"|US release !! width="60"|Genre !! width="35"|MPAA !! width="50"|Director !! width="150"|Notes|-| Splash (film)| 1984-03-09 || Romantic fantasy comedy || PG || Ron Howard ]|-| Country (film)| 1984-09-29 || Drama || PG || Richard Pearce (film director) || Nomination, Academy Award for Best Actress|| 1985-03-22 || Adventure || PG || [Bill L. Norton ]|| 1985-08-09 || Sci-Fi comedy || PG || Jonathan R. Betuel ]| 1986-01-31 || Comedy || R || Paul Mazursky ]| 1986-04-11 || Comedy || PG || Michael Dinner ]| 1986-06-27 || Comedy || R || Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker (film director) || -|-| Tough Guys] || -|-| The Color of Money] || Academy Award for Best Actor Paul Newman
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Art Direction
Nomination, Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|-| Outrageous Fortune] || -|-| Tin Men] || -|-| Ernest Goes to Camp] || -|-| Adventures in Babysitting] || -|-| Stakeout] || -|-| Can't Buy Me Love (film)| 1987-08-14 || Romantic comedy || PG-13 || Steve Rash ]|-| Hello Again (film)| 1987-11-06 || Supernatural comedy || PG || Frank Perry ]| 1987-11-25 || Comedy || PG || Leonard Nimoy ]| 1987-12-23 || Drama comedy || R || Barry Levinson ]|-| Shoot to Kill (film)| 1988-02-12 || Action drama || R || Roger Spottiswoode ]| 1988-03-18 || Mystery thriller || R || Annabel Jankel ]| 1988-06-10 || Comedy || PG || Jim Abrahams ]| 1988-06-22 || Live-action/animated film
Crime comedy || PG || Robert Zemeckis ]
Academy Award for Sound Editing
Academy Award for Visual Effects
Academy Award for Film Editing
Academy Special Achievement Award
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Art Direction
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Nomination, Academy Award for Sound| 1988-07-29 || Drama comedy || R || [Roger Donaldson ]| 1988-08-05 || Action adventure || PG || Ferdinand Fairfax ]| 1988-09-30 || Comedy || PG-13 || Chris Columbus (filmmaker) || -|-| The Good Mother (film)| 1988-11-04 || Romantic drama || R || Leonard Nimoy ]| 1988-11-11 || Comedy || PG || John R. Cherry III ]| 1988-12-21 || Musical drama || PG-13 || Garry Marshall ]
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Art Direction|-| Three Fugitives] || -|-| New York Stories]
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese ]| 1989-04-14 || Action comedy || R || Jim Kouf ]|-| Dead Poets Society] || Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Actor
Nomination, Academy Award for Directing
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Picture| 1989-07-28 || Buddy comedy || PG || [Roger Spottiswoode ]| 1989-10-06 || Drama || R || Peter Yates ]| 1989-10-20 || Drama || PG-13 || Thom Eberhardt ]|-| Blaze (film)| 1989-12-13 || Biographical film || R || Ron Shelton ]|-| Stella (1990 film)| 1990 || Comedy || R ||||}

2000s

Notes Touchstone Distributed Films that were deals with: Paramount Pictures,Universal Pictures,20th Century Fox,Columbia Pictures,Tri-Star Pictures,DreamWorks and Warner Bros.

2 Film With Universal Pictures: O,Bother Where Art Thou and the upcoming The Flood

10 Films with 20th Century Fox: Shopgirl,Dogs In The Office,Cutting Trees,15 Citys,About Dreams,The Men in flags,Entering Spratland and the upcoming death were made by Touchstone Pictures / 20th Century Fox and relesed 2005-Present. For Dogs In The Office,Cutting Trees,About Dreams and The Men in Flags . Fox relesed the films in US and Touchstone relesed them internationally. For Shopgirl,15 Citys,Entering Spratland and Death. Tocuhstone relesed the film in US and Fox relesed them internationally. Fighting Dead Man is also an announced Fox/Touchstone movie. It will be lots of more Fox/Touchstone realeses.

7 films with Paramount Pictures: Alive (1993 film),Face/Off and a lot more.

Please fix these terrible grammatical mistakes... I don't have time!

Notes and References

See also

External links

{{Infobox_Company | company_name = Touchstone Pictures | company_logo = ] | company_type = Subsidiary | parent = [Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, Inc. | owner = [The Walt Disney Company | foundation = Burbank, California, [United States ([) | location_city = Burbank, California | location_country = USA | key_people = [John E. Pepper, Jr., Chairman
[Robert Iger, President/CEO
| industry = [Motion pictures | products = | revenue = {{profit--> | operating_income = {{loss--> | homepage = http://touchstone.movies.go.com/index.html www.touchstonepictures.com -->Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. Its releases typically feature more mature themes than those that gets released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.Touchstone Pictures is merely a brand and does not exist as a separate company: the two de facto companies behind it are Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group and Walt Disney Pictures and TelevisionThe Walt Disney Company SEC filing Form 10-K For the Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006, page 15.

Background Walt Disney Productions' film The Black Hole (1979), a science fiction film that sparked controversy due to the fact that it was the first Disney production to receive a MPAA film rating system rating (the company, however, had already distributed its first PG-rated film, Take Down— without the Disney name visible —almost a year before the release of The Black Hole.) Over the next few years, Disney experimented with more PG-rated fare, such as the 1981 film Condorman, 1982's Tron (movie) and 1983's Never Cry Wolf (film) and Trenchcoat (film). The latter film attracted major criticism for including adult themes that were considered inappropriate for a Disney film.{{cite web| title=Trivia for ''Trenchcoat'' (1983) | publisher=IMDb | url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086476/triviar | accessdate=2006-11-23 --> The controversy over ''Trenchcoat'' is generally considered the catalyst that later sparked the creation of Touchstone Pictures. One title considered for the new company was "Hyperion Pictures," named after the location of the studio in the 1930s before the move to Burbank. Eventually, [Hyperion (publisher) would become the name of Disney's publishing arm.

Started by then Disney CEO Ron W. Miller in 1984, Touchstone's first release was Splash (film), a huge hit for Walt Disney Productions, grossing $68 million at the domestic boxoffice 1984 Yearly Chart for Domestic Grosses at boxofficemojo.com, Retrieved on May 25 2007.. Splash included brief nudity on the part of star Daryl Hannah and occasional inappropriate language, earning a PG-rating. Yet another Disney film label was started in 1990, Hollywood Pictures, with the release of Arachnophobia (film).

The Touchstone films became a top source of income for The Walt Disney Company during the 1980s and 1990s. Disney's first MPAA film rating system film, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, came in January of 1986 and was another smash. Ruthless People followed in April of 1986 and was also huge. Both of these pictures starred Bette Midler who had signed a six picture deal with Disney and became a major film star again with these hits as well as Beaches and Outrageous Fortune.

One of the key suppliers of Touchstone films within the last decade has been producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who has had a production deal with Disney since the early 90’sLev, Michael (January 18, 1991, Friday), 2 Top Movie Producers Sign Disney Accord, The New York Times Financial Desk. Late Edition - Final, Section D, Page 3, Column 1, 286 words, and his Touchstone titles include; The Ref, Con Air, Armageddon (film), Enemy of the State (film), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000 film), Coyote Ugly (film), Pearl Harbor (film), Bad Company (2002 film), Veronica Guerin (film), King Arthur (film) and Déjà Vu (film). In addition, Bruckheimer has also produced several other movies released under the Walt Disney Pictures and Hollywood Pictures labels.

Some other well-known Touchstone Pictures releases includes Dead Poets Society, Pretty Woman, Sister Act and The Insider (film).

Following the success of the Disney-branded PG-13 rated Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003 and other films which would in the 1980s and 90's have been assigned the Touchstone (or Hollywood Pictures) names. Disney has decided to weight distribution of films more toward Disney-branded films and away from Touchstone films, though not entirely disbanding themThe Walt Disney Company SEC filing Form 10-K For the Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006, page 15.

Many films from the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group have during the course of their prior release dates been shifting between the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures imprints before finally settling for one. Examples include; Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dick Tracy (film), The Rocketeer (film), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Santa Clause, Remember the Titans, Sweet Home Alabama (film), Bringing Down the House (film), National Treasure (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), Dark Water, Hidalgo (film) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Touchstone Television Disney's former non-Disney branded television division, Touchstone Television Productions, LLC (formerly known as Touchstone Pictures and Television (itself an alternate version of Walt Disney Pictures and Television) and later Touchstone Television), is known for being the production company of the series The Golden Girls, Blossom (TV series), Boy Meets World (all three began before Disney's ABC acquisition), My Wife and Kids, Desperate Housewives, Lost (TV series), Grey's Anatomy, and Scrubs (TV series).

On February 8 2007 at the Disney Investor Conference, Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney, announced that they would rebrand Touchstone Television to ABC Television Studio in order tie its successful productions more closely with the ABC brand. The announcement was made as part of a company-wide strategy to focus on three core brands, Disney, American Broadcasting Company and ESPN The Walt Disney Company News Release, "Disney-ABC Television Group Renames Television Studio". Retrieved on May 25 2007. In May 2007, the television production company yet again changed its name, this time to ABC Studios.

List of Touchstone Pictures features 1980s {| class="wikitable"|+|-! width="170"|Title !! width="90"|US release !! width="60"|Genre !! width="35"|MPAA !! width="50"|Director !! width="150"|Notes|-| Splash (film)| 1984-03-09 || Romantic fantasy comedy || PG || Ron Howard ]|-| Country (film)| 1984-09-29 || Drama || PG || Richard Pearce (film director) || Nomination, Academy Award for Best Actress|| 1985-03-22 || Adventure || PG || [Bill L. Norton ]|| 1985-08-09 || Sci-Fi comedy || PG || Jonathan R. Betuel ]| 1986-01-31 || Comedy || R || Paul Mazursky ]| 1986-04-11 || Comedy || PG || Michael Dinner ]| 1986-06-27 || Comedy || R || Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker (film director) || -|-| Tough Guys] || -|-| The Color of Money] || Academy Award for Best Actor Paul Newman
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Art Direction
Nomination, Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|-| Outrageous Fortune] || -|-| Tin Men] || -|-| Ernest Goes to Camp] || -|-| Adventures in Babysitting] || -|-| Stakeout] || -|-| Can't Buy Me Love (film)| 1987-08-14 || Romantic comedy || PG-13 || Steve Rash ]|-| Hello Again (film)| 1987-11-06 || Supernatural comedy || PG || Frank Perry ]| 1987-11-25 || Comedy || PG || Leonard Nimoy ]| 1987-12-23 || Drama comedy || R || Barry Levinson ]|-| Shoot to Kill (film)| 1988-02-12 || Action drama || R || Roger Spottiswoode ]| 1988-03-18 || Mystery thriller || R || Annabel Jankel ]| 1988-06-10 || Comedy || PG || Jim Abrahams ]| 1988-06-22 || Live-action/animated film
Crime comedy || PG || Robert Zemeckis ]
Academy Award for Sound Editing
Academy Award for Visual Effects
Academy Award for Film Editing
Academy Special Achievement Award
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Art Direction
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Nomination, Academy Award for Sound| 1988-07-29 || Drama comedy || R || [Roger Donaldson ]| 1988-08-05 || Action adventure || PG || Ferdinand Fairfax ]| 1988-09-30 || Comedy || PG-13 || Chris Columbus (filmmaker) || -|-| The Good Mother (film)| 1988-11-04 || Romantic drama || R || Leonard Nimoy ]| 1988-11-11 || Comedy || PG || John R. Cherry III ]| 1988-12-21 || Musical drama || PG-13 || Garry Marshall ]
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Art Direction|-| Three Fugitives] || -|-| New York Stories]
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese ]| 1989-04-14 || Action comedy || R || Jim Kouf ]|-| Dead Poets Society] || Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Actor
Nomination, Academy Award for Directing
Nomination, Academy Award for Best Picture| 1989-07-28 || Buddy comedy || PG || [Roger Spottiswoode ]| 1989-10-06 || Drama || R || Peter Yates ]| 1989-10-20 || Drama || PG-13 || Thom Eberhardt ]|-| Blaze (film)| 1989-12-13 || Biographical film || R || Ron Shelton ]|-| Stella (1990 film)| 1990 || Comedy || R ||||}

2000s

Notes Touchstone Distributed Films that were deals with: Paramount Pictures,Universal Pictures,20th Century Fox,Columbia Pictures,Tri-Star Pictures,DreamWorks and Warner Bros.

2 Film With Universal Pictures: O,Bother Where Art Thou and the upcoming The Flood

10 Films with 20th Century Fox: Shopgirl,Dogs In The Office,Cutting Trees,15 Citys,About Dreams,The Men in flags,Entering Spratland and the upcoming death were made by Touchstone Pictures / 20th Century Fox and relesed 2005-Present. For Dogs In The Office,Cutting Trees,About Dreams and The Men in Flags . Fox relesed the films in US and Touchstone relesed them internationally. For Shopgirl,15 Citys,Entering Spratland and Death. Tocuhstone relesed the film in US and Fox relesed them internationally. Fighting Dead Man is also an announced Fox/Touchstone movie. It will be lots of more Fox/Touchstone realeses.

7 films with Paramount Pictures: Alive (1993 film),Face/Off and a lot more.

Please fix these terrible grammatical mistakes... I don't have time!

Notes and References

See also

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