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Cinergi Pictures Entertainment was an independent production company founded by Andrew G. Vajna after leaving his previous company, Creator/CarolcoPictures, in 1989 amid disagreements with co-founder Mario Kassar. The new company immediately formed an alliance with Creator/{{Disney}} to distribute their films.

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Cinergi Pictures Entertainment was an independent production company founded by Andrew G. Vajna after leaving his previous company, Creator/CarolcoPictures, in 1989 amid disagreements with co-founder Mario Kassar. The new company immediately formed an alliance with Creator/{{Disney}} to distribute their films.
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Cinergi Pictures was an independent production company founded by Andrew G. Vajna after leaving his previous company, Creator/CarolcoPictures, in 1989 amid disagreements with co-founder Mario Kassar. The new company immediately formed an alliance with Creator/{{Disney}} to distribute their films.

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Cinergi Pictures Entertainment was an independent production company founded by Andrew G. Vajna after leaving his previous company, Creator/CarolcoPictures, in 1989 amid disagreements with co-founder Mario Kassar. The new company immediately formed an alliance with Creator/{{Disney}} to distribute their films.
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Vajna's plan with Cinergi was to cultivate relationships with talent and create two to four event films per year, which Disney would put in theaters, mainly through the Creator/HollywoodPictures label. There were three exceptions: ''Film/RenaissanceMan'' and ''Up Close and Personal'' were released through sister label Creator/TouchstonePictures, while [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] released ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' in North America and Japan, having been behind the first two ''Franchise/DieHard'' films, as well as the rest of the franchise. The company also owned a special effects studio, Mass Illusions.

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Vajna's plan with Cinergi was to cultivate relationships with talent and create two to four event films per year, which Disney would put in theaters, mainly through the Creator/HollywoodPictures label. There were three exceptions: ''Film/RenaissanceMan'' and ''Up Close and Personal'' were released through sister label Creator/TouchstonePictures, while [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Twentieth Century Fox]] released ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' in North America and Japan, having been behind the first two ''Franchise/DieHard'' films, as well as the rest of the franchise. The company also owned a special effects studio, Mass Illusions.
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Vajna's plan with Cinergi was to cultivate relationships with talent and create two to four event films per year, which Disney would put in theaters, mainly through the Creator/HollywoodPictures label. There were three exceptions: ''Film/RenaissanceMan'' and ''Up Close and Personal'' were released through sister label ''Creator/TouchstonePictures'', while [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] released ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' in North America and Japan, having been behind the first two ''Franchise/DieHard'' films, as well as the rest of the franchise. The company also owned a special effects studio, Mass Illusions.

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Vajna's plan with Cinergi was to cultivate relationships with talent and create two to four event films per year, which Disney would put in theaters, mainly through the Creator/HollywoodPictures label. There were three exceptions: ''Film/RenaissanceMan'' and ''Up Close and Personal'' were released through sister label ''Creator/TouchstonePictures'', Creator/TouchstonePictures, while [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] released ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' in North America and Japan, having been behind the first two ''Franchise/DieHard'' films, as well as the rest of the franchise. The company also owned a special effects studio, Mass Illusions.
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Cinergi Pictures was an independent production company founded by Andrew G. Vajna after leaving his previous company, Creator/CarolcoPictures, in 1989 amid disagreements with co-founder Mario Kassar. The new company immediately formed an alliance with Creator/{{Disney}} to distribute their films.

Vajna's plan with Cinergi was to cultivate relationships with talent and create two to four event films per year, which Disney would put in theaters, mainly through the Creator/HollywoodPictures label. There were three exceptions: ''Film/RenaissanceMan'' and ''Up Close and Personal'' were released through sister label ''Creator/TouchstonePictures'', while [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] released ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' in North America and Japan, having been behind the first two ''Franchise/DieHard'' films, as well as the rest of the franchise. The company also owned a special effects studio, Mass Illusions.

However, just like Carolco before them, Cinergi had a tendency to throw large amounts of money on would-be tentpole projects, which caused the company to sink rapidly; most of their filmography [[BoxOfficeBomb flopped at the box-office]], and one of their projects, Creator/BruceWillis vehicle ''Broadway Brawler'', never even made it to theaters thanks to Willis firing multiple people from the production.

Cinergi shut down a week after the release of their last film, ''Film/AnAlanSmitheeFilmBurnHollywoodBurn'', which was given a minuscule release to scathing reviews in early 1998. Disney bought the entire library on the spot save internation to ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'', which was sold to 20th Century Fox, but even that film wound up in the Disney fold after they bought 21st Century Fox in 2019. Mass Illusions was sold off and renamed Creator/ManexVisualEffects.

Andrew G. Vajna would later reunite with Mario Kassar to form C2 Pictures, which lasted until 2008. During this time, Vajna also revived the Cinergi name after buying video game company Games Unlimited, renamed Cinergi Interactive, which operated from 2003 to 2007.
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!!Films produced by Cinergi Pictures include:
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* ''Film/AnAlanSmitheeFilmBurnHollywoodBurn''
* ''Film/ColorOfNight''
* ''Film/DeepRising''
* ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''
* ''Music/{{Evita}}''
* ''Film/JudgeDredd''
* ''Film/MedicineMan''
* ''Film/{{Nixon}}''
* ''Film/RenaissanceMan''
* ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993''
* ''Film/TheScarletLetter1995''
* ''Film/{{Tombstone}}
[[/index]]
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