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Touchstone Entertainment Inc. also known as Touchstone, is a mini-major American entertainment and media company that distribute and produces films.

It was a film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, created and owned by The Walt Disney Company. After formally owner Ron W. Miller died on February 9, 2019.

Disney era (1984-2016)
As Touchstone Films

Touchstone Films was started by then-Disney CEO Ron W. Miller on February 15, 1984 as a label for their PG films with an expected three to four movies released under the label. Touchstone's first film was Splash, a huge hit for grossing $68 million at the domestic box office was released that year.[4][9][10] Incoming Disney CEO Michael Eisner and film chief Jeffrey Katzenberg considered renaming the label to Hollywood Pictures.[11]

In 1986, Down and Out in Beverly Hills was another early success for Touchstone and was Disney's first R-rated film, followed in 1987 by Disney's first PG-13 rated film, Adventures in Babysitting. Disney increased the momentum with additional PG-13 and R-rated films with Ruthless People (1986), Outrageous Fortune (1987), Tin Men (1987), and other top movies. In April 1985, Touchstone Films were licensed to Showtime/The Movie Channel for five years starting in 1986.[12]

As Touchstone Pictures 

Touchstone Films was renamed Touchstone Pictures after the film Ruthless People in 1986.[citation needed] With the Touchstone movies, Disney moved to the top of box office receipts beating out all the other major film studios by 1988.[9] In April 1988, Touchstone became a unit of Walt Disney Pictures with newly appointed president Ricardo Mestres.[13] On October 23, 1990, The Walt Disney Company formed Touchwood Pacific Partners I to supplant the Silver Screen Partners partnership series as their movie studios' primary funding source.[14] With several production companies getting out of film production or closing shop by December 1988, the Walt Disney Studios announced the formation of the Hollywood Pictures division, which would only share marketing and distribution with Touchstone, to fill the void. Mestres was appointed president of Hollywood.[11] In July 1992, Touchstone agreed to an exclusive, first-look production and distribution agreement with Merchant Ivory Productions to last three years.[15] Following the success of the Disney-branded PG-13-rated Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003, and other films that in the 1980s and 1990s would have been released as Touchstone or Hollywood Pictures films, Disney weighed distribution of films more toward Disney-branded films and away from Touchstone Pictures, though not entirely disbanding them as it continued to use the Touchstone label for R and most PG-13 rated fare.[3] In 2006, Disney limited Touchstone's output to two or three films in favor of Walt Disney Pictures titles due to an increase in film industry costs.[16] Disney indicated scaling back on using multiple brands in 2007 with the renaming of Touchstone Television to ABC Television Studio in February and the outright elimination of the Buena Vista brand in April.[17] Two Touchstone co-productions flopped at the box office minimized by its co-producers financial contributions to the movies.[15] Disney revived Touchstone in 2009 to serve as a distribution label for DreamWorks Studios' films.[6][18] DreamWorks was expected to allow Disney to release additional family fare that could be used at its parks and on its channels, but at best DreamWorks films were a modest success.[according to whom?] Disney financed DreamWorks productions with $90 million more available under its agreement if DreamWorks cannot get additional equity funding. In 2012, Disney reportedly was in early stages in considering Touchstone's fate, including a possible sale.[19] Following Disney's decision not to renew their long-standing deal with Jerry Bruckheimer Films in 2013, producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed that he insisted on revitalizing the Touchstone label for production. Disney was uninterested, with studio chairman Alan Horn admitting that Touchstone's output had been reduced to distributing DreamWorks' films as those films are in the label's wheelhouse.[20] In addition to DreamWorks' films, Touchstone also released non Disney-branded animated films such as Gnomeo & Juliet, The Wind Rises and Strange Magic.[21] By the end of the DreamWorks deal, Disney had distributed fourteen of DreamWorks' original 30-picture agreement, with thirteen through Touchstone.[22][23] The deal ended in August 2016, with The Light Between Oceans being the last film released under the agreement. Universal Pictures then replaced Disney as DreamWorks' distributor.[24][25] Disney retained the film rights to these DreamWorks films in perpetuity as compensation for the studio's outstanding loan.

Independent era (2021- )
As Touchstone Entertainment

As Touchstone Pictures was a label by Disney. In 2017 following Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox, Disney Dormant Touchstone after the last DreamWorks Pictures film The Light Between Oceans distributed by Disney in 2016. And Ron W. Miller Formally Founder of Touchstone Pictures died in February 9, 2019.

In 2020 Disney finally Sold Touchstone to Jerry Bruckheimer and Anthony E. Zuiker.

In 2021 Jerry Bruckheimer and Anthony E. Zuiker began there media Company named Touchstone Entertainment inc. As Touchstone Pictures became a mini major studio. Than Touchstone revived Hollywood Pictures as a label for Action, Horror and Thriller films.

Touchstone Films (1984-87)