Film Library
After Selznick's death, his estate sold the rights to a majority of his post-1935 films to ABC's syndication subsidiary ABC Films. Due to fin-syn rules in the 1970s, ABC Films was spun-off and renamed Worldvision Enterprises in 1973. Worldvision was purchased by Taft in 1979 and sold to Aaron Spelling in 1988. In 1994, Worldvision was incorporated into Republic Pictures and Spelling sold to Viacom. MGM bought in 1944 the rights to Gone with the Wind and, at some point, the 1937 version of The Prisoner of Zenda for its 1952 remake (all today part of the Turner Entertainment library owned by Time Warner), and 20th Century Fox still holds rights to the remake of A Farewell to Arms. As for the ABC-owned Selznick films, distribution is now the responsibility of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (Disney Enterprises currently owns ABC).
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