United International Pictures

United International Pictures (UIP ) is a 1981 from the Cinema International Corporation and the international theatrical distribution of the United Artists film distribution incurred international operations based in London.

History

After the Cinema International Corporation was responsible since the 1970s for the film distribution of the products of its three shareholders Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures on the non-American cinema market, it came in 1981 to merge with the international distribution network of United Artists. The company was renamed United International Pictures.

This was preceded by the acquisition of United Artists by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer in 1981., United Artists had an independent global film distribution. This however had to be closed after the merger between MGM and UA, as the controlled by Kirk Kerkorian had undertaken to make all the movies produced by him evaluate on the joint international distributors. This agreement was also true for the products of United Artists.

From 1981, United International Pictures appeared as film distribution of Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer and its subsidiary United Artists. The three partners had an equal share in the company.

The film company DreamWorks SKG, founded in 1994 entered into a distribution agreement for the non-American space with Universal Pictures. This was referring to the cinema and home entertainment evaluation of all products legally controlled by DreamWorks Pictures. Since then, the movies of DreamWorks Pictures of United International Pictures have been brought into the cinema theater.

Of 2000, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer from the United International Pictures. Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures now each hold 50 % of the company shares. MGM now lent its products on the international Verleiharm of 20th Century Fox.

In 2005, the two shareholders Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures decided to end the collaboration of United International Pictures in certain markets. As of 2007, both companies will have established their own international film distributors. The previous individual subsidiaries of UIP are divided between the two. Paramount Pictures takes over the branches in the countries of Australia, Brazil, France, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand and the UK. Universal Pictures will continue its branches in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain and Switzerland on their own. For the other part owner of United International Pictures, this means setting up its own distribution companies in the States. The remaining unaffected by this Agreement States continue to be supplied by the then reduced United International Pictures with cinema products.

United International Pictures in Germany

Also in Germany changed its name first as United International Pictures Cinema International Corporation before the company was renamed in 1981 in United International Pictures GmbH. The company's headquarters was located in Frankfurt am Main. In 2005, a total of 40 employees were working for the company.

In January 2007, the renamed Universal Pictures International Germany GmbH was. Since then, the company belongs to the international Verleiharm by Universal Pictures. She is still in the offices of the former UIP in Frankfurt. Movies from Paramount Pictures were awarded in Germany until the end of 2008 by Universal. Since 2009, Paramount has its own rental under the name of Paramount Pictures Germany based in Unterföhring near Munich, which also brings the films from DreamWorks in the German cinemas.

United International Pictures in Austria

In UIP Austria, headquartered in Vienna -Neubau counts, for years one of the largest distributors with market leadership in the years 2004 and 2005 ( for the period before any figures are publicly available ). The Austrian rental market is next to UIP of Centfox, Walt Disney Studios (until 2005 Buena Vista International), Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and the only major Austrian Rental, Constantin Film -Holding, controlled, each with between about 10 and 25 % market share ( large annual fluctuations). 2007 UIP occurred in Austria as Universal Pictures International ( UPI).

Particularly striking is at UIP, as with the other U.S. lenders that they achieve their major rental success with relatively few films. Constantin Film -Holding, the only comparable large non -US Hire in Austria, required annually for nearly a big success visitors more than twice as many movies. By Number of awarded films are under consideration in recent years with available data (2004, 2005 and 2006), either the Constantin Film -Holding or the two next largest, but in comparison much smaller, Austrian Rentals Filmladen and Polyfilm the largest lender - each with an annual around 40 to 60 films. This illustrates the large visitor attraction of the mostly US-based, produced in Hollywood films, which is achieved in addition to the aligned to mass tastes film stories on the one hand by using world-renowned movie stars and on the other by a complete advertising machinery.

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