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=Castle Rock Entertainment= Castle Rock Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn. It is a label of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

Why They Rock

 * 1) While most movies aren't well known and not well received by critics, its still well received by the audiences and later become cult following.
 * 2) The opening logo is fantastic with CGI being improvement and the music is timeless and fantastic as well.
 * 3) While Castle Rock was no longer to work with Warner Bros., it is still watchable by many people, who grew up.
 * 4) They have likable and awesome characters.
 * 5) The Polar Express was the first animated film from Castle Rock Entertainment.
 * 6) After spending time for independent movies, the studio is officially returned thanks to Rob Reiner, means that everyone were happy to see them again.
 * 7) They produced most of amazing shows, like Seinfeld.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) They produced awful movies, such as North, Kangaroo Jack, and most of all, The Adventures of Pluto Nash.
 * 2) The studio's budget has been reduced by Warner Bros. in April 2002, following the massive box office bombs. Even so, They fired 16 of its 46 employees, and Castle Rock's physical production and public relations departments, back-office duties, and remaining employees were absorbed into Warner Bros., causing it to folding of the label in 2010, after the release of Flipped. Several movies produced afterwards used the Castle Rock name with special permission, specifically movies made by Rob Reiner himself (i.e. LBJ). However, it was, thankfully, revived on October 19, 2021 and will produce films in a first-look deal with Warner Bros., means that many peoples were happy to see.

Trivia

 * Rob Reiner once said in an interview that the lighthouse was an allegory of the company's image: allowing creative talents to make their own projects with more freedom than the major Hollywood studios would allow ("safe harbor", as he calls it). Indeed, Castle Rock's nurturing of such talent, including (most notably) Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, made it one of the most successful production companies of the 1990s.
 * The company name comes from the name of the fictional town in Maine that is the setting for several Stephen King stories (which he named after the rocky outcrop named "Castle Rock" in Lord of the Flies. Reiner himself named the company after the town after the success of his film Stand By Me, (which is based on King's novella, The Body).
 * It is worth mentioning while this is the first logo used for theatrical releases, Castle Rock debuted its lighthouse logo a year earlier for their television unit in a still logo with morning skies and blue water.
 * Warner Bros. owns the copyrights and overall rights to most of the pre-2010 Castle Rock films and television shows, with a few notable exceptions. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer owns the worldwide home video rights (under license to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment since July 1, 2020) to most of the pre-1994 films by virtue of the purchase of the pre-1996 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library via Orion Pictures (which had included, in part, the Nelson Entertainment holdings) in 1999. Sony Pictures Television owns the distribution rights to Seinfeld.

=Before Sunrise=

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=Before Midnight=

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=Michael Clayton=

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=Fracture=

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=Hamlet (1996)=

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The movie is really boring, because it runs to four hours runtime.

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=A Mighty Wind=

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=The American President=

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=Dolores Claiborne=

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=Music and Lyrics=

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=City Slickers=

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=Flipped=

Plot
When they meet in second grade, Juli Baker falls instantly in love with her neighbor, Bryce Loski. Bryce, however, does not feel the spark. From that day forward, he (Callan McAuliffe) tries hard to keep brash and unpredictable Juli (Madeline Carroll) at bay. After six years, she begins to feel that she was wrong about him being the love of her life. Unfortunately, that is just about the time that Bryce begins to think he was wrong about Juli, too.

Trivia

 * This was originally the last film produced by Castle Rock Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. In 2010, Warner Bros. ended the deal with Castle Rock Entertainment because Warner Bros. now oriented on its sister production company, New Line Cinema, and despite WB still owns its subsidiary. Since 2011, Castle Rock Entertainment became independent film division, itself a division of WarnerMedia, which then was known as Time Warner, and specializes only independent films and art-house, and it possible that Castle Rock became a predecessors of two former independent film studios, Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse (company), which were active from 2004 to 2008. However, on October 19, 2021, the company was revived and will produce films in a first-look deal with Warner Bros.

=LBJ=