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 Hollywood Pictures label. There were three exceptions: Renaissance Man and Up Close and Personal were released through sister label Touchstone Pictures, while Twentieth Century Fox released Die Hard with a Vengeance in North America and Japan, having been behind the first two Die Hard 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 flopped at the box-office, and one of their projects, Bruce Willis 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, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, 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 Manex Visual Effects.
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.
Films produced by Cinergi Pictures include:
- An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
- Color of Night
- Deep Rising
- Die Hard with a Vengeance
- Evita
- Judge Dredd
- Medicine Man
- Nixon
- Renaissance Man
- Super Mario Bros. (1993)
- The Scarlet Letter (1995)
- Tombstone
