Orion Pictures

Orion Releasing, LLC (doing business as Orion) is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon.

It founded in 1978 as Orion Pictures Corporation, a joint venture between Warner Bros. and three former senior executives at United Artists. The company produced and released films from 1978 through 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was one of the largest mini-major studios during its early years, when it worked with prominent directors such as Woody Allen, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, and Oliver Stone. Four films distributed by Orion won Academy Awards for Best Picture: ''Amadeus'' (1984), ''Platoon'' (1986), ''Dances with Wolves'' (1990), and ''The Silence of the Lambs'' (1991). Four other Orion films were nominated for the award: ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' (1986), ''Mississippi Burning'' (1988), ''Women Talking'' (2022) and ''American Fiction'' (2023).

In 1997, Orion was acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), which revived the Orion name for television in 2013 and relaunched Orion Pictures a year later. In 2022, Amazon acquired Orion when it acquired MGM. Provided by Wikipedia