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Allied Artists Pictures Corporation started life as a subsidiary
Subsidiary

A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity. The controlled entity is called a company , corporation, or limited liability company, and the controlling entity is called its parent ....
 of Monogram Pictures
Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation was a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, most on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
 in 1946 as an outlet for films with bigger names and higher budgets than Monogram could boast. Monogram continued to produce "B" movies through 1952, while the studio's special attractions were released as "Allied Artists Productions".

In 1953, Allied Artists dropped the Monogram name and functioned as a single entity, Allied Artists Pictures.






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Allied Artists Pictures Corporation started life as a subsidiary
Subsidiary

A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity. The controlled entity is called a company , corporation, or limited liability company, and the controlling entity is called its parent ....
 of Monogram Pictures
Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation was a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, most on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
 in 1946 as an outlet for films with bigger names and higher budgets than Monogram could boast. Monogram continued to produce "B" movies through 1952, while the studio's special attractions were released as "Allied Artists Productions".

In 1953, Allied Artists dropped the Monogram name and functioned as a single entity, Allied Artists Pictures. Allied Artists did make a few noteworthy films in the fifties (Friendly Persuasion, Al Capone) but apart from the popular "B" comedies with The Bowery Boys
The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys was a group of actors who made a series of films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958. The group was a revamping of "East Side Kids," who had been making films together since 1940....
, most of the studio's output consisted of exploitation pictures, filmed quickly to cash in on current trends and events (Operation Eichmann, The Naked Kiss).

One of the few mainstream attractions released by the studio in the 1960s was Tickle Me
Tickle Me

Tickle Me is a 1965 in film Western film comedy-musical film starring Elvis Presley. It is also the only Elvis film that was released by Allied Artists Pictures....
 starring Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
 (1965). For better or for worse, one of its better known films today is Mitchell
Mitchell (film)

Mitchell is a 1975 in film film starring Joe Don Baker as an abrasive, alcoholic police detective, released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in the USA on September 10, 1975....
 (1975) which was spoofed in a very popular episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an United States cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains that ran from 1988 in television to 1999 in television....
.

Although the corporation produced and/or distributed major films such as Papillon
Papillon (film)

Papillon is a 1973 in film film based on a Papillon by French ex-convict Henri Charri?re. The film was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charri?re and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega....
, The Wild Geese, Cabaret
Cabaret (film)

Cabaret is a 1972 in film American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, before the rise of the Nazism under Adolf Hitler....
 and The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King (film)

The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 in film film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling The Man Who Would Be King. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery as Daniel Dravot, Michael Caine as Peachey Carnehan, Saeed Jaffrey as Billy Fish, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling ....
, it met with financial catastrophe and filed for bankruptcy in 1979. Allied Artists Pictures Corporation's trademark successor, Allied Artists International, Inc. (formerly Allied Artists Records, Inc.) continues to release motion picture, television and music productions under the "Allied Artists" trademark and trade name.

Lorimar and Warner Bros.


Lorimar Productions
Lorimar Productions

Lorimar Productions , later known as Lorimar Television, was an United States television production company that was later a subsidiary of Warner Bros., active from 1968 in television-1993 in television....
 purchased the former Allied Artists Pictures Corporation film library during the 1980 bankruptcy proceeding that resulted in the company's demise. With Time Warner
Time Warner

Time Warner Inc. is the world's third largest media and entertainment Conglomerate by market capitalization , headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City....
 purchasing Lorimar in 1988, most of the Allied Artists library is controlled by Time Warner subsidiary, Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 Entertainment, Inc.

Allied Artists International, Inc.


Allied Artists Records, which was a separate entity at the time of the Allied Artists Pictures Corporation bankruptcy, was left standing with the only remaining rights to the "Allied Artists" name, although those rights had up to that point been limited to motion picture soundtracks, records and music publishing.

Following the 1980 bankruptcy and dissolution of Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, Allied Artists Records sought to expand its trademark and service mark rights to include all forms of entertainment, including those previously held by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

Allied Artists Records ultimately filed for and received federal trademark protection for "Production and distribution of entertainment services, namely, phonograph records, motion picture films, video tapes, DVDs, and radio and television programs" in International Class 041.

In 2007, given the length of time Allied Artists International, Inc. had exercised control over the name, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued Allied Artists International, Inc. (Allied Artists Records' successor) a Notice of Acceptance under Section 8 of the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1058(a)(1) and Section 15 of the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1065, which deems Allied Artists International, Inc's right to the federal trademarks for "Allied Artists" incontestable.

Allied Artists International, Inc. is presently producing and distributing entertainment products that include motion pictures, television productions, DVDs, music CD's, entertainment software, music publishing and a myriad of other entertainment related activities. Allied Artists International, Inc. maintains a website at .