S/D: The Filmography Of Disney's Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures

In late 1979, Walt Disney Productions released The Black Hole, a science-fiction film that was the studio's first production to receive a PG 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 and Tex; and 1983's Never Cry Wolf and Trenchcoat. The latter film attracted major criticism for including adult themes that were considered inappropriate for a Disney film.[3] The controversy over Trenchcoat is generally considered the catalyst that later sparked the creation of the Touchstone Pictures brand.

Started by then-Disney CEO Ron W. Miller in 1984, Touchstone's first film was Splash, a huge hit for Walt Disney Productions, grossing $68 million at the domestic boxoffice.[4] Splash included brief rear nudity on the part of star Daryl Hannah and occasional inappropriate language, earning a PG-rating. Because of its success, yet another Disney film label was started in 1990, Hollywood Pictures, with the release of Arachnophobia.

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 that in the 1980s and '90s would have been assigned to the Touchstone (or Hollywood Pictures) label, Disney has decided to weigh distribution of films more toward Disney-branded films and away from Touchstone films, though not entirely disbanding them as it is still using the Touchstone label for R and most PG-13 rated fare.

Because of its success, yet another Disney film label was started in 1990, Hollywood Pictures, with the release of Arachnophobia.

Auspicious start!

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a bargain!

I remember going to the pictures to see Condorman cos I was a huge Michael Crawford fan. I'm guessing it hasn't aged well.

the 1981 film Condorman

waht

such huge lol @ slam dunk ernest...thanking u

actually saw Slam Dunk Ernest in college, riyl if you like shots of jim varney from the waist up dunking basketballs in a variety of amusing poses.

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the 1981 film Condorman

waht

Hahah. Saw the damn thing in the theater when it came out.

Be impressed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9f-9P3EThc

What're the odds of 2 of us having seen it at the flicks?

I don't enjoy Johnny Depp pirate movies at all btw but will not moan on about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiS42RHaKyg

I think Michael Crawford had to be the Phantom of the Opera after Condorman since he had to hide himself in shame.

forgot to include this key ebert quote from his thread: Disney has already announced it will make no more ordinary first run movies, and will focus on 3D, animation, superheroes and franchises. The studio that gave us "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," "Pretty Woman" and "Good Morning, Vietnam" wants to do so no more.

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WHY DISNEY WHYYYYYY

had already distributed its first PG-rated film, Take Down—without the Disney name visible

Wonder what the hell this was.

touchstone released royal tenenbaums + a bunch of dope 90s bruckheimer joints iirc

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I like how Estevez and Dreyfuss both look like they know what we're thinking when we see Rosie O'Donnell between them.

pretty sure this was the last of dreyfuss's day, as there were no more worlds to conquer.

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I...I...totally forgot about that one.

pretty awesome how she can balance herself on that spear

touchstone releases of 2000 wld be a good poll:

Play It to the Bone January 21, 2000 -
Mission to Mars March 10, 2000
High Fidelity March 31, 2000
Keeping the Faith April 14, 2000
Shanghai Noon May 19, 2000
Gone in 60 Seconds June 9, 2000
Coyote Ugly August 4, 2000
The Crew September 25, 2000 -
Unbreakable November 22, 2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou? December 22, 2000

from the wiki summary of Krippendorf's Tribe:

Meanwhile, Ruth Allen travels to New Guinea, discovering there the absence of any tribe in the location specified by James. She transmits the news via telephone to a colleague of hers, who exposes James at a gala. James' imaginative son Mickey, urged by his sister, improvises a lie to this effect; that the Shelmikedmu had deliberately hidden themselves by means of a magical ritual known to them. Unknown to the majority of the characters, Shelly has contacted the New Guineans befriended by her family during the futile search for the lost tribe, urging them to masquerade as the Shelmikedmu in order to disappoint Ruth Allen. The ruse succeeds, and the accusation of fraud is abandoned.

James, relieved of his worries, ends his fraud. Because Veronica has become sexually involved with him during her participation in his deceit, she assumes the role of a mother toward the children, though she is not explicitly said to marry James.

He's discovered the wildest tribe in his own backyard!

I guess that bombed because everyone was out not watching Other People's Money.

Keeping the Faith April 14, 2000

I saw this and totally thought Jenna Elfman had a huge career ahead of her.

You know, that plot summary might be the secret explanation to Lost.

I went to the cinema to see Condorman as well. It's obviously a thing for ILXors of a certain age :-/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxigHkZdtk

"here's the funniest scene, allegedly showing a circumcision ritual." - Roger Ebert

haha -- I'm just watching their review on the At the Movies site.

he's clearly bummed the film did not live up to that comic peak

I went to the cinema to see Condorman as well. It's obviously a thing for ILXors of a certain age :-/

All that marketing had an impact.

Wait, Krippendorf's is from 1998? My god, that thing couldn't seem more early nineties if you tried.

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Nice and big, people.

Siskel & Ebert weren't happy with that one either.

Most of the filmography of Robin Williams for the past twenty years or so to thread.

that poster says its a trimark film, alfred. focus!

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Please note Bette's Cliff Huxtable sweater.

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(1991)

* Run (1991)
* The Marrying Man (1991)
* One Good Cop (1991)
* V.I. Warshawski (1991)

(1992)

* The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
* Medicine Man (1992) - co-production with Cinergi Pictures
* Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
* Straight Talk (1992)
* Passed Away (1992)
* Sarafina (1992) - co-production with Miramax Films
* A Stranger Among Us (1992)
* Encino Man (1992)
* Consenting Adults (1992)
* The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

christ what a shitfarm

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Outrageous Fortune is a 1987 film written by Leslie Dixon, directed by Arthur Hiller, and stars Shelley Long and Bette Midler. The title is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet ("... the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, ...").

Midler received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role).

i remember bette saying a corpse had a "bugfucker" of a penis but that's about it

"They met on a beach thirty years ago"

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Film stars John Cusack with an ensemble cast includes Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen, Benicio del Toro, Michael Rapaport, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Maury Chaykin, Currie Graham and Fionnula Flanagan.

never seen this movie or even read a review of it

"BIG POINTS FOR LAUGHS!"

Yeah, wtf is that (I speak as someone who <3s John Cusack, and also Michael Madsen! Benicio Del Toro! James Gandolfini! Philip Seymour Hoffman!)

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Emily Eden (Griffith), a San Francisco hardened homicide detective, goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic diamond-cutter. To do so, she lives with the family of the Hasidic rebbe, an elderly Holocaust survivor who is revered for his wisdom and compassion toward his fellow Jews. He says to her, "You and I have something in common: We are both intimately familiar with evil. It does something to your soul."

While living with the rebbe's family, she takes a liking to his son, Ariel (Eric Thal), a young man who works as a diamond-cutter but teaches in the yeshiva and is expected to follow his father as the next rebbe. Emily invites him to have sex with her but he politely refuses. In addition to keeping all 613 Mitzvot, he is waiting for his intended, or bashert, the daughter of a Paris rebbe whom he has not yet actually met. They are the subjects of an arranged marriage, but he believes that she is his soul mate, chosen by God.

He is also studying the Kabbalah, which is regarded as rather daring for a man under 40. Its discussion of sexual intimacy is restrained but specific, as well as a metaphor for the relationship between Man and God.

"Dangerous world of mystery and intrigue" indeed!

He is also studying the Kabbalah, which is regarded as rather daring for a man under 40

she's gonna need that gun when shit gets real

Dang. Splash, Three Men and a Baby, Good Morning Vietnam, Big Business...the 80's Touchstone list reads like a list of the 'recorded from the TV' videos in my parent's tv cabinet. I don't think we ever owned any of them and I watched them 9 million times.

There's some good memories too...

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Dang. Splash, Three Men and a Baby, Good Morning Vietnam, Big Business...the 80's Touchstone list reads like a list of the 'recorded from the TV' videos in my parent's tv cabinet.

painfully otm

Wow. Later years really did define 'direct to video'...

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I will vouch for Bubble Boy

I remember that one – it was supposed to be her big film hit!

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lol 90s

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I still watch this whenever it's on TV. I can't help it.
"Baby steps out of the office..."

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I've seen Money For Nothing - it isn't really funny nor is it particularly even presented as a comedy, it's more this sad-sack meditation on how getting the money fucks up this guy's life really badly

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Ah, Free HBO Weekends. Grab a bulk pack of Polaroid VHS tapes from Sam's Club and have at it. I started this thread in that spirit a while back.

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this movie is OFF THE CHAIN. Still can't believe it's the only movie Richard Rush has made since The Stunt Man.

Bette Midler's late eighties film career was a sight to behold.

I too saw Condorman in the theater. I recall thinking it was pretty strange and engaging. I also recall there being a totally rad fleet of black Porsche 911s racing around tiny European village roads.

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I've seen a worrying amount of Shelley Long's career, cheers paucity of videos in Azad in Inverness in the 1980s :-/

xxpost -- Not surprising as I noticed that Rémy Julienne did the stunts for said film.

It was all downhill after this
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"cheers" = unintentional pun, btw, but still pinpointing real reason I kept thinking films with Shelley Long in them would be good despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary

check out Bill Murray's hair in that WAB poster.

it should be noted that while Hollywood backed Encino Man, Son In Law and In The Army Now, they are NOT responsible for Bio-Dome.

Ruthless People and Outrageous Fortune are both fucking great movies imo. Quite like the nutzoid hilarity of Hand That Rocks the Cradle too.

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the movie who's soundtrack shaped my childhood

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I still can't believe that movie existed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qzC-F0s5j8

When he pours, he reigns

It has a great Jimmy Cliff song in it.

just saw the trailer for Kristen Bell's new movie and it had a touchstone logo. guess they haven't closed up shop yet!

Still can't believe it's the only movie Richard Rush has made since The Stunt Man.

damn that makes it a must-see imo

AND brad dourif is in it

it's fucking mental

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Best Verhoeven film not made by Verhoeven.

Part one here, the rest is up, go to town.

part 7 ftw

that movie has bruce's willis in it! how can it be on youtube!

Looking back over the rest of Condorman, the whole thing is a faux pas. Enjoy Michael Crawford as a wacky Arab shiek (from 7:43 on):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtEK5edU-eI

I want everyone to describe Lesley-Ann Warren's clothes and hair in Color of Night.

When he pours, he reigns

^^^really can't be posted enough

Ah. The list of movies we were allowed to bring on weekend retreats in Sunday School. I never saw Condorman, but I really wanted to.

New poll: Favorite 14th of The Color of Night

Fire it up. (With links, of course.)

ws jane march so much. not when she's dressed up as the kid from jerry maguire though

bruce willis career was in a pretty weird place early 90's huh?

I saw Color Of Night in the theater...still trying to scrub Bruce's Willis from my minds eye.

I saw Condorman on TV, probably on the Disney Channel.

I saw the Color of Night on my college's movie channel.

Color of Night's the one with the ridiculous pool sex scene, right?

AKA Part 7 (NSFW)

Count me in with the Condorman cinema viewers, saw it in a double bill with The Rescuers at the Leicester Odeon back in '81.

I only realize now for you folks in the UK the hook would have been Michael Crawford, sitcom star. Which probably made his bad American accent all that much more weird to consider.

Spot on Ned - we watched Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em religiously so that must have been a factor. My bro' and I were mad for superhero stuff too, but I do recall being underwhelmed by Condorman, even at the tender age of nine. The Rescuers was ace though.

My Boyfriend's Back is pretty wtf. it has jack shepherd and zombies in it which officially makes it lost season 7 in my opinion.

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