Hughes Entertainment

Hughes Entertainment was an American film production company and music label founded in 1987 by filmmaker John Hughes. It was closed in 2002.

Hughes Entertainment

Company type	Private
Industry	Film
Genre	Various
Founded	1987; 38 years ago (1987) in Chicago, United States
Founder	John Hughes
Defunct	2002 (2002)
Fate	Closed
Headquarters	Chicago, United States
Products	Motion pictures

History

The studio was founded in 1987 by American film producer John Hughes as The John Hughes Company. It was initially based at Universal Pictures, through a three-year production agreement, in order to produce, direct and write two to three pictures a year in order to develop from their own development ideas.^[1] The company was subsequently moved to Paramount Pictures in 1985.^[2] The company then spent various deals at Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox throughout the end of the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s.^[3] The company produced films such as Curly Sue, Home Alone and Miracle on 34th Street.

Films

List of films that were produced by Hughes Entertainment:^[4][5]

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Co-production companies	Budget	Gross
1987	Some Kind of Wonderful	Howard Deutch	Paramount Pictures	N/A		$18.5 million[6]
	Planes, Trains & Automobiles	John Hughes		N/A	$30 million	$49.5 million
1988	She's Having a Baby			N/A	$20 million[7]	$16 million (domestic)[8]
	The Great Outdoors	Howard Deutch	Universal Pictures	N/A	$24 million	$43.4 million[9]
1989	Uncle Buck	John Hughes		N/A	$15 million	$79.2 million[10]
	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation	Jeremiah S. Chechik	Warner Bros.	N/A	$25 million[11]	$71.3 Million[12]
1990	Home Alone	Chris Columbus[13]	20th Century Fox	N/A	$18 million[14][15]	$476.7 million[14][15]
1991	Career Opportunities	Bryan Gordon	Universal Pictures	N/A		$11.3 million[16]
	Only the Lonely	Chris Columbus	20th Century Fox	N/A		$25 million[17]
	Dutch	Peter Faiman		N/A	$17 million	$4.6 million[18]
	Curly Sue	John Hughes	Warner Bros.	N/A	$25 million[19]	$33.7 million
1992	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	Chris Columbus	20th Century Fox	N/A	$28 million[20]	$359 million[21]
1993	Dennis the Menace	Nick Castle	Warner Bros.	Hank Ketcham Enterprises	$35 million	$117.2 million
1994	Miracle on 34th Street	Les Mayfield	20th Century Fox	Fox Family Films		$46.3 million[22][23]
	Baby's Day Out	Patrick Read Johnson		N/A	$48 million[24]	$16.7 million[24]
1997	Home Alone 3	Raja Gosnell		Fox Family Films	$32 million[25]	$79.1 million[25]
1998	Reach the Rock	William Ryan	Universal Pictures	Gramercy Pictures; uncredited		$4,960
2001	Just Visiting	Jean-Marie Poiré	Buena Vista Pictures	Hollywood Pictures and Gaumont; uncredited	$35 million	$16.2 million
	New Port South	Kyle Cooper		Touchstone Pictures
2002	Maid in Manhattan	Wayne Wang	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, and Red Om Films; uncredited	$55 million	$163 million[26]