EMI Films

EMI Films‏‎ was a British film studio and distributor.

Filmography

Bryan Forbes

• Eyewitness (1970) (ABPC) (ITC)
• And Soon the Darkness (1970) (ABPC)
• Hoffman (1970) (ABPC)
• The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) (ABPC)
• The Breaking of Bumbo (1970) (ABPC)
• The Railway Children (1970)
• A Fine and Private Place (1970) (abandoned)
• The Raging Moon (1971)
• The Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)
• Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971)
• Dulcima (1971)

Hammer co-productions

• On the Buses (July 1971)
• Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (October 1971)
• Mutiny on the Buses (June 1972)
• Straight on Till Morning (July 1972)
• Demons of the Mind (November 1972)
• Man at the Top (1973) (AE/H)
• Love Thy Neighbour (July 1973)
• Holiday on the Buses (December 1973)
• To the Devil a Daughter (March 1976) (H)

MGM-EMI

• Get Carter (1971) (ME)
• The Go-Between (1971) (ME) (Dist by C in USA)
• The Boy Friend (1971) (ME)

Nat Cohen/Anglo-EMI

• All the Way Up (1970) (AA)
• Spring and Port Wine (1970) (AA)
• Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970) (AA)
• The Body (1970) (AE)
• Percy (1971) (AE)
• Up Pompeii (1971) (AE)
• Villain (1971) (AE) – produced by Kanter, Ladd and Kastner
• Family Life (1971) (AE) – directed by Ken Loach
• Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
• Steptoe and Son (1972)
• I Am a Dancer (1972) (AE)
• Afternoon of a Champion (1972) (AE) (documentary)
• Up the Front (1972) (AE)
• Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) (AE)
• Endless Night (1972)
• Our Miss Fred (1972) (AE)
• Fear Is the Key (1972) – produced by Kanter, Ladd and Kastner (AE) (Dist by P in USA)
• Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (1973)
• Baxter! (1973) (AE)
• Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973)
• The Final Programme (1973) (AE)
• Take Me High (1973)
• The Dove (1974) (D) (Distributed by Paramount in USA)
• Our Cissy (1974) (short)
• Stardust (1974) (AE) (Dist by C in USA)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974) (AE) (Dist by P in USA)
• Sunday in the Country (1974) (D)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• All Creatures Great and Small (1975)
• Trick or Treat? (1976) (abandoned)
• The Likely Lads (1976)
• Spanish Fly (1976) (D)
• It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1976)
• Aces High (1976) (D)
• Seven Nights in Japan (1976) (P)
• Sweeney! (1977)
• Cross of Iron (1977) (A-E)
• Twenty Five Years (1977) (documentary)
• Welcome to Blood City (1977)

Co-productions with Columbia

• Nickelodeon (December 1976) - also with British Lion
• The Greatest (May 1977) – also with British Lion
• The Deep (June 1977)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (November 1977)
• The Cheap Detective (June 1978)

Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings regime

• Silver Bears (1977) (Dist by C in USA)
• Sweeney 2 (1978)
• Warlords of Atlantis (1978) (Dist by C in USA)
• Convoy (1978) – with United Artists
• The Driver (1978) – with 20th Century Fox
• Death on the Nile (1978) (Dist by P in USA)
• The Deer Hunter (1978) – with Universal

TV movies

• The Amazing Howard Hughes (April 1977)
• The Girl Called Hatter Fox (October 1977)
• Special Olympics (February 1978)
• Forever (January 1978)
• Deadman's Curve (February 1978)
• Just Me and You (May 1978)
• One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (September 1978)
• Betrayal (November 1978)
• Steel Cowboy (December 1978)
• Lawman Without a Gun (December 1978)
• Deathmoon (May 1978)
• Lawman Without a Gun (1978)
• The Cracker Factory (March 1979)
• S.O.S. Titanic (September 1979)
• Survival of Dana (1979)
• Can You Hear the Laughter? The Story of Freddie Prinze (September 1979)
• Orphan Train (December 1979)
• The Dance Goes On (1980)
• Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (October 1980)
• My Kidnapper, My Love (December 1980)
• The Killing of Randy Webster (1981)
• Broken Promise (1981)
• The Manions of America (1981)
• A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (February 1982)
• A Question of Honor (1982)
• Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
• Deadly Encounter (1982)
• The Legend of Walks Far Woman (May 1982) (filmed 1979)
• Packin' It In (1983)

Barry Spikings

• Arabian Adventure (July 1979) – with British Lion – distributed by AFD
• The Crown Prince (1979)
• Can't Stop the Music (June 1980) – distributed by AFD
• The Awakening (October 1980) – with Orion – distributed by Warners
• Times Square (October 1980) – with Robert Stigwood, distributed by AFD
• The Elephant Man (October 1980) – with Brooksfilms – distributed by Columbia-EMI-Warner (UK), Paramount (US)
• The Jazz Singer (December 1980) – distributed by AFD
• The Mirror Crack'd (December 1980) – distributed by AFD
• Honky Tonk Freeway (August 1981) – distributed by AFD
• Evil Under the Sun (March 1982) – distributed by AFD
• Britannia Hospital (May 1982) – with British Lion, distributed by United Artists Classics
• Frances (December 1982) – with Brooksfilms, distributed by Universal
• Second Thoughts (February 1983) – distributed by Universal
• Bad Boys (March 1983) – distributed by Universal
• Tender Mercies (Mar 1983) – distributed by Universal
• Strange Invaders (Sep 1983) – distributed by Orion
• Cross Creek (May 1983) – with Universal, distributed by AFD, Universal
• Handgun (May 1983, produced in 1981) - distributed by WB

Verity Lambert

• Slayground (December 1983) - distributed by Universal
• Comfort and Joy (August 1984) - with Kings Road, distributed by Universal
• Not for Publication (November 1984) - distributed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company
• A Passage to India (December 1984) - with HBO, distributed by Columbia
• Morons from Outer Space (March 1985) - distributed by Universal
• Restless Natives (June 1985) - distributed by Orion Classics
• Dreamchild (October 1985) - distributed by Universal
• Wild Geese II (October 1985) - distributed by Universal
• The Holcroft Covenant (October 1985) - distributed by Universal
• Highlander (March 1986) - distributed by 20th Century-Fox
• Clockwise (March 1986) - distributed by Universal
• Link (March 1986) - distributed by Universal

Later films

• The Manhattan Project (June 1986) (TESE) - with Gladden Entertainment, distributed by 20th Century-Fox
• It Couldn't Happen Here (July 1988)
• Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (May 2003) (D) (credited as "Virgin Music", a member of the EMI Group")

• AA = co-production with Anglo-Amalgamated
• ABPC = produced by Associated British Picture Corporation
• AE = as Anglo-EMI
• AFD = distributed by Associated Film Distributors
• C = co-production with Columbia Pictures
• D = distributor only
• H = co-production with Hammer Film Productions
• MGM = co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Orion = co-production with Orion Pictures
• P = co-production with Paramount Pictures
• TESE = as Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment
• U = co-production with Universal
• UA = co-production with United Artists
• WB = co-production with Warner Bros.

Weintraub Entertainment Group

• The Big Blue (1988): distribution rights, $3 million
• Fresh Horses (1988): first original production, grossed only $7 million
• My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988): $26 million budget, grossed $13.8 million
• The Karen Carpenter Story (1989): a TV movie release on CBS
• Listen to Me (1989)
• She's Out of Control (1989)
• Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
• The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)