Hawk Films

Hawk Films

Industry	Film production
Founded	1964
Founder	Stanley Kubrick
Defunct	2001
Headquarters	London, England , United Kingdom
Products	Motion pictures

Hawk Films (also known as Peregrine Productions, Harrier Films and Stanley Kubrick Productions) was a British film production company formed by American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick to produce his 1964 film Dr. Strangelove . ^[1] Kubrick continued to use it as a production company for his films A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), and Full Metal Jacket (1987). ^[1]

Kubrick formed two subsidiaries that were also named after birds of prey: ^[2] Peregrine Productions was involved in the production of Barry Lyndon and The Shining, ^[1] while Harrier Films was involved in Full Metal Jacket, ^{[1] [3]} together with his main production company Stanley Kubrick Productions, which formed to produce 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and was also the main production company for Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and Steven Spielberg's 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence .

American environmentalist Roger A. Caras was vice president of Hawk Films from 1965 to 1969, and was involved in the promotion of 2001: A Space Odyssey. ^[4]

References

1. Baxter, John (1997). Stanley Kubrick: A Biography . Basic Books. p.  174. ISBN   0-7867-0485-3.
2. Cocks, Geoffrey (2004). The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, & the Holocaust. Peter Lang. p. 6. ISBN   978-0-8204-7115-0.
3. Ciment, Michel; Adair, Gilbert; Bononno, Robert (2003). Kubrick: The Definitive Edition. Macmillan. p. 223. ISBN   978-0-571-21108-1.
4. Cevasco, George A.; Harmond, Richard P.; Mendelsohn, Everett (2009). Modern American Environmentalists: A Biographical Encyclopedia. JHU Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-9152-6.