The DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group

Today's episode talks about the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, born from the ashes of Embassy Pictures in the fall of 1985, only to spectacularly flame out after two years, but able to make one true masterpiece and several modern classics in such a short amount of time.

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The movies discussed during this episode:

The Bedroom Window (January 1987, Curtis Hanson)
Blue Velvet (September 1986, David Lynch)
Crimes of the Heart (December 1986, Bruce Beresford)
Date with an Angel (November 1987, Tom McLaughlin)
Evil Dead II (March 1987, Sam Raimi)
From the Hip (February 1987, Bob Clark)
Hiding Out (November 1987, Bob Giraldi)
King Kong Lives (December 1986, John Guillerman)
Manhunter (August 1986, Michael Mann)
Maximum Overdrive (July 1986, Stephen King)
Million Dollar Mystery (June 1987, Richard Fleischer)
My Little Pony: The Movie (June 1986, Michael Joens)
Near Dark (October 1987, Kathryn Bigelow)
Raw Deal (June 1986, John Irvin)
The Transformers: The Movie (August 1986, Nelson Shin)
Radioactive Dreams (September 1986, Albert Pyun)
Tai-Pan (November 1986, Daryl Duke)
Trick or Treat (October 1986, Charles Martin Smith)
The Trouble with Spies (December 1987, Burt Kennedy)
Weeds (October 1987, John Hancock)