11 Facts About Lorimar Productions

In 1980, Lorimar Productions purchased the Allied Artists Pictures Corporation library.

On June 6,1985, Lorimar Productions decided to expand into first-run syndication, and wanted to pick up eight series, with the acquisition of syndicated rights to the CBS game show Press Your Luck.

On January 11,1989, Lorimar Productions was purchased by Warner Communications, which the following year merged with Time Inc to form Time Warner.

Lorimar Productions continued as a production company until September 1993, when it was eventually folded into Warner Bros.

In 1990, David Salzman left Lorimar to start Millennium Productions to cover affiliated production houses like Lorimar and Telepictures.

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In 1991, after Orion Pictures shut down its television unit, before its eventual Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Gary Nardino moved to Lorimar Productions, taking its current Orion-produced shows with them, and took talent deals with them.

Lorimar Productions previously had a distribution agreement with 20th Century Fox for two years between 1985 and 1987, before starting its own distribution unit.

Year, in February 1987, it inked a distribution agreement with Greenfox Lorimar Productions to handle worldwide distribution theatrically and all other media on the horror film sequel Return of the Living Dead Part II, which was rolled on a $6 million budget in royalties handled by the production company.

In 1984, Lorimar Productions purchased Karl Video Corporation, known as Karl Home Video, which was named after its founder, Stuart Karl.

In 1985, Karl-Lorimar Productions inked a deal to distribute movie titles by Lorimar Productions Motion Pictures and had to release 6 to 12 theatrical feature films a year.

In 1979, Lorimar Productions formed Lorimar Productions Records whose first release was the soundtrack to the film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.