2006-09-25 05:44:14 · 3 answers · asked by suzi_vt 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Castle Rock Entertainment is an independent film and television studio founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andy Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and entertainment mogul Alan Horn, with Columbia Pictures as a strategic partner.
Reiner named the company in honor of a fictional town from the book The Dead Zone written by Stephen King, after the success of the film Stand by Me, which was based on a novella by King. The first film that was released by this studio was When Harry Met Sally…, which was co-produced with Nelson Entertainment (whose holdings were sold in part to now-corporate sibling New Line Cinema) and Columbia Pictures. Columbia handled Castle Rock films' distribution up until 1999.
2006-09-25 05:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by CJM 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
CJM has the right answer, but in all fairness to the other answer, the town of Castle Rock, Maine turns up in quite a few diff Stephen King novels *not just Dead Zone and Needful Things..though Dead Zone prob has it featured the most predominately*.
2006-09-25 12:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by starikotasukinomiko 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It takes its name from the Steven King novel Needful things after a fictional town
2006-09-25 12:47:52 · answer #3 · answered by Shadow Kat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋