Former type Film Studio Defunct 1999 Founded 1989 Ceased operations 1999 | Industry Motion pictures Headquarters United States | |
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Fate Absorbed into InterMedia Films produced | ||
Largo Entertainment was a production company founded in 1989. It was ran by film producers and brothers Lawrence and Charles Gordon and was backed by electronics firm Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) in an investment that cost more than $100 million. The production company released their first film, Point Break, in 1991.
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In 1989, Gordon formed Largo Entertainment with the backing of JVC, representing the first major Japanese investment in the entertainment industry. As the company's chairman and chief executive officer, Gordon was responsible for the production of such films as Point Break (1991), starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves; The Super (1991), starring Joe Pesci; Unlawful Entry (1992), starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta and Madeleine Stowe; Used People (1992), starring Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Marcia Gay Harden and Marcello Mastroianni; and Timecop (1994), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Largo also co-financed and handled the foreign distribution of the acclaimed 1992 biopic Malcolm X, directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington in the title role. In 1994, Lawrence and Charles Gordon left the company. Largo went out of business in 1999, and their film library was acquired by InterMedia in 2001.