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| Page creator | UltraGoji (talk | contribs) |
| Date of page creation | 15:09, 13 July 2020 |
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Article description: (description)This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | American International Pictures (AIP) is a film production label of MGM. In its first incarnation as an American film distributor, it was founded in 1954 as American Releasing Corporation (ARC) by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff.[1] AIP released low-budget American films and imported films from the 1950s to the 1970s, including many tokusatsu films made by Toho and Daiei. AIP formed its own television production and distribution company, American International Television (AITV), in 1964,[2] which released five of the eight films in the Showa Gamera series and several other kaiju and tokusatsu films to American television. The company went defunct in 1979 and was acquired by Filmways, which syndicated Gamera Super Monster in the U.S. in 1982, two years after being purchased by Orion Pictures.[3] Most of AIP's library is now owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), which purchased Orion in 1997.[4] In 2020, AIP was relaunched by MGM as a label for limited and digital releases of new independent films. |
