Interscope Communications
Interscope Communications, Inc. (also known as Interscope Pictures) was a motion picture production company founded in 1982 by Ted Field. It soon became a division of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.
Industry
1982
1999 (as film studio and label)
2002 (through USA Films merger)
2003 (as in-name-only label)
Merged with October Films and Gramercy Pictures to become USA Films and later consolidated into Focus Features
- Focus Features
- Radar Pictures
United States
Ted Field
Robert W. Cort
Scott Kroopf
Independent (1982–1994)
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (1994–1998)
Universal Studios (1998–1999)
USA Films (1999–2002)
Interscope Records (1990–1996)
In 1999, after Seagram merged PolyGram into Universal Pictures, Interscope Communications was sold to USA Networks and merged into the recently formed USA Films, which in 2002, would later be merged with other film labels after being acquired by Universal to become Focus Features.[1]