Castle Rock Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which in turn is a unit of Time Warner. Reiner named the company in honor of the fictional Maine town that serves as the setting of several stories by Stephen King , after the success of his film Stand by Me, which was based on The Body, a novella by King. The company was originally backed by The Coca-Cola Company, the then-parent company of Columbia Pictures. Coke and the... company's founders jointly owned a stake in the company. Months after the deal, Coke exited the entertainment business, succeeded by Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 1989, Castle Rock was supported by another backer, Group W, a subsidiary of Westinghouse. Castle Rock later struck a deal with Nelson Entertainment, the company that owned the domestic home video rights to Reiner's This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, and The Princess Bride, to co-finance Castle Rock's films.
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| Founded: | 1987 |
| Founders: | Martin Shafer, Andrew Scheinman, Alan F. Horn, Glenn Padnick, Rob Reiner |
| Headquarters: | United States of America |