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NEWS : CINEMA ARTS INTERNATIONAL FOLDS

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CINEMA ARTS INTERNATIONAL FOLDS
Corporate News 20.01.05

It has come to our attention, that Cinema Arts International was dissolved as a company recently, on 14th September 2004.

Cinema Arts was the production company run by Roy Skeggs. Incorporated in 1975, Roy used the company to produce the Rising Damp, and George and Mildred films in the late 1970s, and the Hammer House of Horror tv series, whilst Hammer itself was in receivership, following bankruptcy on The Lady Vanishes.

Following the dismissal of Michael Carreras, Roy bought Hammer in 1983, until selling it in 1999 to the current owners - a multimedia conglomerate, for an undisclosed figure.

Roy continued to work independently with Cinema Arts after the Hammer sale, sharing directorship duties with his son (and former legal adviser to Hammer), Graham Skeggs, and running offices at Elstree.

The reason for the fold is not currently known, and recent accounts are not available.

 

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