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14-478: Yablans is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Frank Yablans (1935–2014), American studio executive, film producer, and screenwriter Irwin Yablans (born 1934), American film producer and distributor, brother of Frank [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Yablans . If an internal link intending to refer to

28-422: A domestic theatrical distribution deal with TriStar Pictures and a home video distribution deal with CBS/Fox Video . Throughout 1984–85, the company made several more deals with other production and distribution companies, including Frank Yablans , Roadshow Film Distributors , UGC , and Taft Entertainment/Keith Barish Pictures . Despite releasing many successful films, PSO ran into financial problems and

42-417: A full-fledged production company, setting up operations on March 27, 1984, through subsidiary PSO Presentations. On April 10, 1984, a major shake-up happened in the sales and acquisition department and executive Eleanor Powell moved position to become deputy managing director of the company. In November 1984, PSO merged with film financing firm The Delphi Companies; the resulting company, PSO-Delphi , forged

56-585: A new foreign sales unit dubbed Producers Distribution Organization, later renamed Interaccess Film Distribution, Inc., and then to the Vestron International Group. A year after PSO ended, Damon founded a new company, with Peter Guber and Jon Peters , called Vision International . A majority of the PSO library would ultimately end up with Lionsgate , and then Icon Entertainment International (originally founded by Mel Gibson ). Among

70-439: A new line of credit with Chemical Bank of New York and The First National Bank of Boston on the condition that the company had to concentrate on what it did originally, acquire foreign sales rights to pictures and sell those films abroad. As the company had gone into bankruptcy protection, Vestron Inc . was rumored to buy PSO, but the company ultimately shut down outright. Many of its employees were soon hired by Vestron to run

84-614: A production and marketing company committed to "family-friendly" entertainment. Its most ambitious project was the "Epic Stories of the Bible" series of CGI-animated features, starting with The Ten Commandments (2007) and Noah's Ark: The New Beginning (2012). Yablans died on Thanksgiving , November 27, 2014, from natural causes at the age of 79. He had three children – Robert Yablans (deceased), Sharon Abrams, and Edward Yablans. Producers Sales Organization Producers Sales Organization (PSO; also known as PSO Productions, Inc. )

98-436: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yablans&oldid=1003002857 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Frank Yablans Frank Yablans

112-494: The chairman and CEO of Gulf & Western Industries, was replaced by Barry Diller , Yablans announced his resignation as president on November 8, 1974. After leaving Paramount he became an independent producer, working primarily through Paramount and 20th Century Fox . He was executive producer of Silver Streak (1976), The Other Side of Midnight (1977), Congo (1995), and the HBO series Rome . He also produced and adapted

126-489: The film Love Story (1970), led to his appointment as Paramount Studios' president on May 10, 1971. As head of Paramount, he oversaw the release and marketing of The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), and Chinatown (1974). He also personally supervised the 100th birthday celebrations of studio founder Adolph Zukor in January 1973. Following a reorganization at Paramount in which Charles Bluhdorn,

140-406: The screenplays for North Dallas Forty (1979) and Mommie Dearest (1981), both based on books. Yablans was recruited by Kirk Kerkorian to head his troubled and debt-laden film company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) . While Yablans' reorganization of MGM and United Artists (UA) into a single entity (as MGM/UA) served to reduce costs and overhead, the company continued to lose value, and in 1986

154-432: Was an independent motion picture production and sales company founded in 1977. Initiated by Mark Damon , an actor-turned-producer, PSO mostly handled foreign sales of independent films. It was initially a partnership between Damon, producer Sandy Howard , and Richard St. Johns, who worked for Arthur Guinness Son & Co. At one point, it was a subsidiary of Guinness. In its final years of existence, PSO briefly became

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168-733: Was born in Brooklyn , New York to Annette and Morris Yablans. Yablans' father was a taxi driver. His older brother, Irwin Yablans , produced Halloween (1978). Yablans was Jewish . Yablans entered the motion picture business in 1956, joining Warner Bros. sales. In 1959, he joined Buena Vista as the Milwaukee sales manager where he stayed until 1966. He joined Sigma III and later transitioned to Filmways after it acquired Sigma III. He became executive vice president of sales for Paramount Pictures in June 1969, where his marketing of

182-557: Was forced into bankruptcy in 1986, effectively ending the company (the Taft-Barish pictures planned by PSO would eventually move to J&M Entertainment). In a lead-up to a bankruptcy plan, PSO decided to drop in-house production and restructure their output deals with foreign distributors into picture-by-picture agreements, including a deal with RKO Pictures . The company was forced out of film production when they cut their relationship with Delphi on April 23, 1986. PSO agreed on

196-497: Was purchased by Ted Turner Productions for a reported $ 1.25 billion. He then formed Northstar Entertainment Corporation, with a partnership at Producers Sales Organization . In 1986, he set up a two-year, seven-picture agreement with low-budget studio Empire International to produce feature films. In 1987, director Arthur Seidelman partnered with Yablans to produce feature films. In 2000, Yablans and partners Cindy Bond, Charlie Stuart Gay and Ron Booth founded Promenade Pictures,

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