Industry | Film production |
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Founded | 1964 |
Founder | Stanley Kubrick |
Defunct | 2001 |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Motion pictures |
Hawk Films (also known asPeregrine Productions,Harrier Films andStanley Kubrick Productions) was a Britishfilm production company formed by American filmmakerStanley Kubrick to produce his 1964 filmDr. Strangelove.[1] Kubrick also used it as a production company for his later filmsA Clockwork Orange (1971),Barry Lyndon (1975),The Shining (1980), andFull Metal Jacket (1987).[1]
Kubrick later formed two subsidiaries that were also named afterbirds of prey:[2]Peregrine Productions was involved in the production ofBarry Lyndon andThe Shining,[1] whileHarrier Films was involved inFull Metal Jacket,[1][3] together with his main production company Stanley Kubrick Productions, which formed to produce2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and was also the main production company for Kubrick's final filmEyes Wide Shut (1999), andSteven Spielberg's 2001 filmA.I. Artificial Intelligence.
American environmentalistRoger A. Caras served as vice president of Hawk Films from 1965 to 1969, and was involved in the promotion of2001: A Space Odyssey.[4]
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