Vestron Pictures

Vestron Pictures was a film studio and distributor of the late 1980s, and a division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing.

The company was a spin-off of the earlier video distributor, Vestron Video. Vestron also had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures, a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video. Today, Lionsgate owns the rights to the Vestron library and was previously owned by LIVE Entertainment, later Artisan.

Productions

 * Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1991) (released by Taurus Entertainment Company)
 * Blue Steel (1990) (eventually acquired and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer due to financial problems)
 * Catchfire (1990)
 * Class of 1999 (1990) (released by Taurus Entertainment Company)
 * Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
 * Fear (1990)
 * A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990)
 * Love Hurts (1990)
 * Spies on Ice (1990)
 * Big Man on Campus (1989)
 * Cat Chaser (1989)
 * C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989)
 * Dream a Little Dream (1989)
 * Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, distribution only)
 * Far From Home (1989)
 * Hider in the House (1989)
 * Little Monsters (1989, Vestron produced the film but sold the film to United Artists due to financial problems)
 * Paint It Black (1989)
 * Parents (1989)
 * The Rainbow (1989)
 * Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
 * Twister (1989)
 * And God Created Woman (1988)
 * Amsterdamned (1988, US distribution only)
 * The Beat (1988)
 * Burning Secret (1988)
 * Call Me (1988)
 * Dangerous Curves (1988)
 * The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
 * Midnight Crossing (1988)
 * Paramedics (1988)
 * Promised Land (1988)
 * Spies Inc. (1988) (released on videocassette in 1992 by Live Home Video, under the name Code Name: Chaos)
 * The Unholy (1988)
 * Waxwork (1988)
 * Young Guns (1988, international and video distribution only, 20th Century Fox owned North American theatrical rights)
 * The Adventure of the Action Hunters (1987)
 * Anna (1987)
 * Blood Diner (1987)
 * China Girl (1987)
 * Dirty Dancing (1987)
 * Malcolm (1987, US distribution only)
 * Nightforce (1987)
 * The Princess Bride (1987, international distribution only; 20th Century Fox owned North American theatrical rights)
 * Steel Dawn (1987)
 * Billy Galvin (1986)
 * The Pointsman (1986)
 * Slaughter High (1986)
 * Alpine Fire (1985)