New World Communications

New World Pictures

New World Pictures was an independent motion picture and television production company, and later television station owner in the United States from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. News Corporation became a major investor in 1994 and purchased the company outright in 1997; the alliance with News Corporation helped to cement the Fox network as the fourth major U.S. television network. Although effectively defunct, it, along with various regional subsidiaries , continues to exist as holding companies within the complex News Corporation corporate structure. In 1970, the company was founded as...
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quick facts
Founded:1970
Founders:Roger Corman
Headquarters:United States of America

New World Communications founders

Roger Corman
Roger Corman
Age:86 (Born: April 5, 1926)

Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
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Headquarters of New World Communications

United States of America
United States of America
Founded:July 4, 1776
Population:311,591,917

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic...
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Divisions of New World Communications

Division Name
Marvel Productions
WITI
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Parent company of New World Communications

News Corporation
News Corporation
Headquarters:Surry Hills, New York City
Founded:1979
Founders:Rupert Murdoch

News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational diversified mass media corporation headquartered in New York City, United States. It is the world's second-largest media group as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster. The company is controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family members through a stock structure which gives him and...
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Companies acquired by New World Communications

CompanyDate:
Learning Corporation of America 1986
Marvel Comics 1986
Highgate Pictures, Inc 1986
Four Star International, Inc 1989
SCI Television, Inc. 1993
Gillett Communications, Inc. 1993
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