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{{Short description|British-French film studio and distributor}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Canal+ Image International
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| industry = [[Film studio]]
| former_names = EMI-Elstree (1969–1970) MGM-EMI (1970–1973) Anglo-EMI Film Distributors (1971–1973) EMI Film Distributors (1973–1979) Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment (1979–1986) Cannon Screen Entertainment (1986–1988) Lumiere Pictures and Television (1992–1996) UGC DA (1996–1997)
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1969}}
| predecessor = [[Associated British Productions]] [[Anglo-Amalgamated]]
| successor = [[StudioCanal]] [[StudioCanal UK]]
| founder = [[Bryan Forbes]]
| defunct = {{End date and age|2000}} (as a company) {{End date and age|2006}} (as a home video label in the UK)
| location = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]] [[Paris]], [[France]]
| location_city =
| owner = '''Cannon Screen Entertainment:''' [[EMI]] (1969–1979) [[Thorn EMI]] (1979–1986) [[The Cannon Group, Inc.]] (1986–1988) '''Weintraub Entertainment Group:''' 
[[The Coca-Cola Company]] US Tobacco Company<ref name=nst/> [[Columbia Pictures]] (15%; 1987–1989) [[Warner Bros.]] (15%; 1989–1990)<ref name=cpps/> '''Lumiere Pictures and Television:''' [[Caisse des dépôts et consignations]] (54%;) [[Credit Lyonnais]] (5%;) Euro Clinvest (6.5%;) [[France Telecom]] (18%;) [[Old Mutual Holdings|UAP]] (8%;) Jean Cazes (5%;) [[Time Warner]] (3.5%; 1995–1996) [[UGC (cinema operator)|UGC]] (1996) [[Groupe Canal+]] (1996–2000)
| subsid = [[France Animation]] [[Pegs'n Co|Pixibox]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Williams|first=Michael|title=Lumiere sets its sights on H'wood, seeks cash allies|date=April 24, 1995|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|url=https://variety.com/1995/film/features/lumiere-sets-its-sights-on-h-wood-seeks-cash-allies-99128196/|access-date=March 10, 2024}}</ref>
| area_served = Worldwide
| products = [[Motion pictures]]
| key_people = Jean Cazes (Chairman/CEO) Alastair Waddell (Chief Executive) Chris Cary (Head of Business Development) Ralph Kamp (Theatrical Sales) Christine Ghazarian (Head of Overseas Sales, Paris Office) Alison Trumpy (TV Sales Manager) Martin Bigham (Technical Operations) Jamie Carmichael (TV Sales)<ref name="Groves">{{cite web|last=Groves|first=Don|title=Lumiere reorganizes sales, biz divisions|date=August 13, 1993|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|url=https://variety.com/1993/film/news/lumiere-reorganizes-sales-biz-divisions-109627/|access-date=March 10, 2024}}</ref>
| fate = Acquired and merged by [[StudioCanal]]
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.studiocanal.com/}}
}}
'''Canal+ Image International''' (formerly known as '''EMI Films''', '''Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment''', '''Lumiere Pictures and Television''',<ref>{{cite web|last=Hopewell|first=John|title=Lumiere rocks to French classics|date=October 20, 2012|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/lumiere-rocks-to-french-classics-1118061036/|access-date=April 24, 2015}}</ref> and '''UGC DA''') was a British-French [[film studio|film]], [[television studio|television]], [[animation studio]] and [[film distributor|distributor]].<ref name="Groves">{{cite web|last=Groves|first=Don|title=Lumiere reorganizes sales, biz divisions|date=August 13, 1993|publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|url=https://variety.com/1993/film/news/lumiere-reorganizes-sales-biz-divisions-109627/|access-date=March 10, 2024}}</ref> A former subsidiary of the [[EMI]] conglomerate, the corporate name was not used throughout the entire period of EMI's involvement in the film industry, from 1969 to 1986,<ref name="terramedia.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/media/film/vertical_integration.htm|title=Vertical integration|website=Terramedia|access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref> but the company's brief connection with [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] and Anglo-EMI, the division under [[Nat Cohen]], and the later company as part of the [[Thorn EMI]] conglomerate (following the merger with Thorn) are outlined here.

The library passed through the hands of several companies over the following years and is now owned by [[StudioCanal]], a former [[Vivendi|sister company]] to [[Universal Music Group]] and parent company [[Canal+ Group]]'s acquisition of European cinema operator [[UGC (cinema operator)|UGC]] who acquired the library's then-owner, the United Kingdom-based Lumiere Pictures and Television in 1996, via [[Cannon Films]]. EMI Films also owned [[Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)|Elstree Studios]] in Hertfordshire, England; in turn, [[The Cannon Group, Inc.|Cannon]] ended up purchasing the studio as well, but later sold it to [[Brent Walker]] in 1988, who in turn ended up selling half of the EMI Elstree Studios site to Tesco for a supermarket, before Hertsmere Council eventually acquired what was left of the Elstree Studios, and, as of 2018, continues to operate it as a film and television studios centre.<ref name="terramedia.co.uk"/>

== EMI Films ==
=== Bryan Forbes and Nat Cohen===
The company was formed after the takeover of [[Associated British Picture Corporation]] (ABPC) in 1969 by [[EMI]], following the acquisition of [[Warner Bros.]]' shares in ABPC the previous year.<ref>{{cite book|last=Warren|first=Patricia|title=British Film Studios: An Illustrated History|publisher=B. T. Batsford|location=London|date=2001|page=75}}</ref> At the time ABPC owned 270 [[ABC Cinemas]], a half share in the [[ITV1|ITV]] contractor [[Thames Television]], [[Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)|Elstree Studios]] at Shenley Road in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, and had recently bought [[Anglo-Amalgamated]], a film studio in which [[Nat Cohen]] had been a partner.

EMI moved into film production with the foundation of a new company, EMI-Elstree. [[Bernard Delfont]] appointed writer-director [[Bryan Forbes]] as the head of production at Elstree in April 1969 for three years at £40,000 a year, plus a percentage of the profits.<ref>Forbes, p 62</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Pearson, Kenneth|title=The Great Film Gamble|work=Sunday Times|date=13 April 1969|page=53|via=The Sunday Times Digital Archive}}</ref> As part of the general shake up of EMI, Nat Cohen was appointed to the Board.<ref>{{cite news|title=BUSINESS diary|work=The Times|location=London|date=9 April 1969|page=23|via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> According to ''Filmink'' this led to "two competing fiefdoms" at EMI.<ref name="four">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-moguls-nat-cohen-part-four-cohen-vs-bryan-forbes-1969-71/|magazine=Filmink|access-date=24 January 2025|date=24 January 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title=Forgotten British Moguls – Nat Cohen Part Four: Cohen vs Bryan Forbes (1969-71)}}</ref>

EMI announced they would make 28 films for $36 million—13 of these would be from Cohen's unit for £7 million,<ref>{{cite news|title=ECONOMY: Ease the squeeze now please|date=November 30, 1969|work=The Observer|page=18}}</ref> the rest from Forbes'. Bernard Delfont called it "probably the most ambitious program ever undertaken by a British film company."<ref>{{cite news|title=Shot in Arm for British Film Industry|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 29, 1969|page=a9}}</ref>

Forbes announced his intention to make a variety of films at Elstree, steering away from what he called the "pornography of violence."<ref>{{Cite news|author=Dennis Barker|title=Parable of talent: DENNIS BARKER interviews Bryan Forbes|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=August 9, 1969|page=6}}</ref><ref>Walker, 1974, p.426-428</ref> He claimed EMI would make 14 films in 18 months with such stars as [[Peter Sellers]] and [[Roger Moore]] at a cost of £5–10 million in total.<ref>{{cite news|title=Britain steps back into cinema's big league|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=13 August 1969|page=5}}</ref> His aim was to keep budgets down and create a varied slate which would increase the chances of appealing to audiences and making a sufficient return to continue productions.<ref>{{cite news|author=John Heilpern|title=The End: In the Last Fifteen Years the British Cinema Has Lost Four-Fifths of its Audience. Today Half of the Industry'sTechnicians Are Out of Work|work=The Observer|location=London|date=28 June 1970|page=9}}</ref>

In August 1969 Forbes announced his slate of fifteen projects, including:<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/829614846/?terms=%22forbush%20and%20the%20penguins%22%20viola&match=1|title=British finance backs plans for 15 new films|first=Sean|last=Day-Lewis|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=13 August 1969|page= 17}}</ref>
* ''[[Hoffman (film)|Hoffman]]'' (starring Peter Sellers, directed by Alvin Rakoff)
* ''[[And Soon the Darkness (1970 film)|And Soon the Darkness]]''
*''[[The Man Who Haunted Himself]]''
* ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'', directed by [[Joseph Losey]] from a script by Harold Pinter
* ''[[The Breaking of Bumbo]]'', directed by [[Kevin Brownlow]] and Andrew Mollo
* ''The Feathers of Death'', directed by [[Richard Attenborough]] from a story by [[Simon Raven]] (unproduced)<ref>Forbes, p.103</ref>
* A film of a script by [[Richard Condon]] directed by John Bryson (unproduced)
* [[The Railway Children (1970 film)|An adaptation of ''The Railway Children'']] directed by [[Lionel Jeffries]]
* ''[[A Fine and Private Place (film)|A Fine and Private Place]]'', directed by Paul Watson
* An adaptation of the novel ''The Bitter Lollipop'' by John Quigly
* An adaptation of the novel ''Candidate of Promise'' by Dennis Barker
*''The Barnardo Boys'', a musical about Dr. Barnardo with music by Michael Lewis
*''Question of Innocence'', from a script by Julian Bond based on a story by Roger Moore
* ''Dulcima'', directed by Frank Nesbitt with John Mills
* ''[[Mr. Forbush and the Penguins]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=In the Picture|work=Sight and Sound|issue=38.4 (Fall 1969)|page=181}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/british-film-studios/110791-bryan-forbes-interview-abpc-elstree-studios.html |title=BRYAN FORBES INTERVIEW at ABPC ELSTREE STUDIOS |access-date=24 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224210511/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/british-film-studios/110791-bryan-forbes-interview-abpc-elstree-studios.html |archive-date=24 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

"This is the first serious effort to revitalize the British film industry in 20 years", said Forbes. He added, "We intend to give youth a chance and not merely pay lip service to it. This is our first program and it won't be our last."<ref>{{Cite news|title=British Film Czar Plans to Revitalize Industry| author=McEWAN, IAN|work=Los Angeles Times |date=Aug 15, 1969|page=d16}}</ref>

In November 1969 Nat Cohen and Bernard Delfont announced a slate of eight more films for EMI including:<ref>{{cite news|title=8 new British films are in the pipeline|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/721548449/?terms=%22anglo%20amalgamated%22&match=1|first=Michael|last=Owen|newspaper=Evening Standard|date=25 November 1969|page= 17}} (subscription required)</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/829663028/?terms=%22anglo%20amalgamated%22&match=1|title=EMI puts faith and £15 million into filmmaking|first=Stella|last=Shamoon|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=26 November 1969|page= 17}} (subscription required)</ref>
*''The Impotent'', starring [[Carol White]] and [[Malcolm McDowell]] (unproduced)
*''The Practice'', from the novel by Stanley Winchester (unproduced)
*''The Burden of Proof'', from a novel by James Barlow (this later became ''Villain'')
*''Percy'', the story of a penis transplant
*''Jam Today'', from a novel by Susan Baratt (unproduced)
*''My Family and Other Animals'', from [[My Family and Other Animals|a book by Gerald Durrell]] and produced by Michael Medwin (unproduced)
*''Wise Child'', from [[Wise Child|Simon Gray's stage play]] (unproduced)
* A film starring [[Julie Christie]] (unproduced)
* A film directed by [[John Schlesinger]] (unproduced)
The first few films of Forbes' regime actually performed poorly commercially: ''Eyewitness'', ''[[Hoffman (film)|Hoffmann]]'', ''[[And Soon the Darkness (1970 film)|And Soon the Darkness]]'' and ''[[The Man Who Haunted Himself]]'' (starring Moore).<ref>{{Cite news|title=City comment: Soon the darkness|work=The Guardian|date=March 8, 1971|page=12}}</ref> ''[[The Breaking of Bumbo]]'' (all 1970), and ''[[Mr. Forbush and the Penguins]]'' (1971) flopped and ''[[A Fine and Private Place (film)|A Fine and Private Place]]'' was abandoned. Forbes clashed with Bernard Delfont and their American backers, in this case [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]], over the artistic and commercial value of director [[Joseph Losey]]'s film ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'' (1970). Forbes was also criticised within EMI for directing his own film, ''[[The Raging Moon]]'' (US: ''Long Ago, Tomorrow'', 1971). ''[[The Railway Children (1970 film)|The Railway Children]]'' (1970) and ''[[Tales of Beatrix Potter]]'' (1971) were Forbes' only hits.

The company was affected with labour problems. Forbes felt as though he did not have the support of the EMI board, arguing that he never had the funds to market his films, in contrast with those available to Anglo-EMI, which was headed by [[Nat Cohen]].

Defont wrote "Nat resented the iplication that his films were somehow less worthy than those appearing under the Elstree banner, the more so because his films made a lot of money. In Wardour Street, where Nat had his power base, the talk was of Bryan Forbes enjoying the luxiry of spending what Nat and his friends earned.<ref>{{cite book|last=Delfont|first=Bernard|title=East End, West End: An Autobiography|publisher=MacMillan|year=1990|page=184}}</ref> Delfont acknowledged the differences between the men "went deeper" with Forbes feeling British films should be made for British audiences whereas Cohen aimed for bigger budgeted movies that had international appeal. "I was split between the two," wrote Delfont. "My heart was with Bryan Forbes: I wanted him to succeed. But as director of EMI with a responsbility to shareholders and the workforce, I had to accept that Nat Cohen was talking practical common sense."<ref>Delfont p 168</ref> Delfont also felt Forbes program "would have taken an investment of time and money which was out of all proportion to likely return."<ref>Delfont p 168-169</ref>

Forbes resigned in March 1971,<ref>{{cite news|title=Forbes Quits as Elstree's Film Chief|work=Los Angeles Times|date=March 26, 1971|page=e15}}</ref> after committing himself to a no-redundancy policy.<ref name="McFarlane">{{cite book|editor=Brian McFarlane|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/531878/|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film|location=London|publisher=Methuen/BFI|date=2003|page=203}}</ref> He had made eleven films in total for an estimated cost of £4 million.<ref>Walker, 1985, p 114</ref> Although Forbes' regime was seen at the time to have been a commercial failure, he later claimed that by 1993 his £4 million program of films had eventually brought EMI a profit of £16 million.<ref>Forbes, p.108</ref> (In 1994 he said the profit was £18 million from 18 films.<ref name="bryan">{{cite web|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/bryan-forbes|website=British Entertainment History Project |title=Interview with Bryan Forbes|first=Roy|last=Fowler|date=9 August 1994|access-date=2 August 2024}}</ref>) Linsday Anderson later wrote:
<blockquote>Bryan Forbes was a fighter, and he did his best to discipline the oldfashioned, small-minded labour force. But the penny-pinching, unimaginative management was just as bad. The £4,000,000 ‘revolving production fund’ was never forthcoming. Worst of all was the ‘respectable’ taste which dictated the choice of projects. However urgent the pressure, the new Elstree should not have kicked off with duds like ''The Man Who Haunted Himself'' (Roger Moore) or ''Hoffman'' (Peter Sellers). Most horribly significant was the grudging, purblind treatment of Bryan's own excellent ''The Raging Moon'', which made only too clear the intransigent mediocrity of the people in key positions. Thus, what was probably the last chance of saving the British film industry was lost.<ref>{{cite book|page=381|url=https://archive.org/details/neverapologiseco0000ande/page/381/mode/1up?|title= Never apologise : the collected writings|last=Anderson|first= Lindsay|year=2004 |publisher=Plexus |isbn=978-0-85965-317-6 }}</ref></blockquote>
Editor Teddy Darvas later observed:
<blockquote>It was a great tragedy that Bryan failed. Part of the reason I think was that he got himself very much involved in little things instead of letting John Hargreaves, who was his number two, to run the studio like [[Alexander Korda|Korda]] would allow Lew Thornburn to run the studio and would only go in on major matters. Also, because he, as a director... had been interfered with so much by front office he felt that, when he gave people the money to make a film, it shouldn't interfere and because of that he gave young people a chance and brought in, sometimes inexperienced technicians. And because he didn't interfere, a lot of those films under his reign were flops, also he was told to make so many films instead of being told you have got money to make a number of films when you get the right story. A lot of films, I think, were made for the sake of being made.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=30 July 2024|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/teddy-darvas|website=British Entertainment History Project|title=Interview with Teddy Darvas|date=1991–1992}}</ref></blockquote>
Among the films Forbes wished to make but was unable to during his time at Elstree were an adaptation of [[Graham Greene]]'s play ''[[The Living Room (play)|The Living Room]]'', to be directed by [[Michael Powell]];<ref>Forbes, p.102</ref> a musical about the Barnardo Boys;<ref>{{cite news|author=Pearson, Kenneth|title=News in the Arts|work=Sunday Times|location=London|date=4 April 1971|page=37|via=The Sunday Times Digital Archive}}</ref> and ''The Loud, Loud Silence'' a post-apocalyptic story from Richard Condon. He turned down ''[[Ned Kelly (1970 film)|Ned Kelly]]'' (1970) because its projected budget was too high.

=== MGM-EMI ===
In April 1970, EMI struck up a co-production agreement with [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]. The Hollywood studio announced they would sell their [[MGM-British Studios|Borehamwood facility]] ("MGM-British Studios") and move their equipment to EMI's Elstree studio. MGM and EMI would then distribute and produce films in co-operation through a joint venture to be called MGM-EMI.<ref name="Barber47">Sian Barber [https://books.google.com/books?id=tP1hLXw9HCAC&pg=PA47 ''The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity''], Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p.47</ref> and MGM began to finance some of EMI's productions.<ref name="McFarlane"/> EMI's studio complex was renamed EMI-MGM Elstree Studios<ref name="Warren">Patricia Warren ''British Film Studios: An Illustrated History'', London: B.T Batsford, 2001, p.76</ref> while a [[film distributor|film distribution]] company MGM-EMI Distributors Ltd. was formed as part of the co-production agreement. This company, headed by Mike Havas would handle domestic distribution of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] and EMI-produced films in the United Kingdom.

It was originally announced that MGM-EMI would make six to eight films a year, but they ended up producing far fewer.<ref>{{Cite news|title="MGM to Close, Down English Film Facility"|work=Los Angeles Times|date=April 1970|page=a6}}</ref> Forbes was given the title of managing director of MGM-EMI to add to his existing title of head of production. In July 1970 MGM-EMI announced they would make four co-productions: ''The Go-Between'', ''[[Get Carter]]'', ''The Boyfriend'' and ''The Last Run'' directed by [[John Boorman]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Spectrum Of Interest: Film Notes|author=Gary Arnold.|date=July 15, 1970|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=B5}}</ref> Of these only the last was not made (It was eventually made with Richard Fleischer directing as a MGM film with no EMI involvement except for UK distribution).

MGM pulled out of the amalgamation in 1973, and became a member of [[Cinema International Corporation|CIC]], which took over international distribution of MGM produced films. At this point the distribution company became EMI Film Distributors Ltd., and EMI-MGM Elstree Studios reverted to EMI-Elstree Studios.<ref name="Warren"/>

=== Nat Cohen ===
EMI's other filmmaking division, Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Ltd, which had come out of Anglo-Amalgamated, was run autonomously by [[Nat Cohen]]. This wing of the company had released films such as ''[[Percy (1971 film)|Percy]]'' (1971). They also financed and distributed a series of films made by [[Hammer Film Productions]], which partly came about through [[Bernard Delfont]]'s friendship with [[James Carreras]]. There was an initial agreement to make three films, then an agreement to make nine movies over three years at a cost of around £200,000 each.<ref>Sandles. "Abpc, Hammer in Film Deal." Financial Times, 18 Aug. 1970, p. 21. Financial Times Historical Archive,</ref>

Nat Cohen took over Forbes' responsibilities as head of production after his resignation in 1971.<ref name="Harper128">{{Cite news|author=Sue Harper|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAGGFKeyXvsC&pg=PA128|title=Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know|location=London & New York|publisher=Continuum|date=2000|page=128| isbn=9781441134981 }}</ref> Cohen backed productions intended for international success, and EMI had a more obviously commercial outlook. In October 1971, EMI's chairman John Read admitted the film division had performed disappointingly. "Profits were negligible last year and we felt it was desirable to make one or two provisions to write off some of the costs." However films like ''[[On the Buses (film)|On the Buses]]'' and ''[[Up Pompeii (film)|Up Pompeii]]'' (both 1971) performed well in relation to their budgets. "The experts say you're doing well if you make money out of one in three films", said Read. "We see filmmaking as a significant profit earner in the future."<ref>{{cite news|title=EMI faces the music Braham, Michael|date=Oct 10, 1971|work=The Observer|page=14}}</ref>

Cohen was responsible for overseeing about 70% of the films produced in the UK during 1973, following a significant decline in domestic projects overall. In particular, long-term duopoly rival [[Rank Organisation|Rank]] had by now greatly reduced its own investment in British film production to a token presence.<ref name="Harper128"/> Cohen was not unaware of the problems inherent in his dominant position.<ref>Barber, p.48</ref> Meanwhile, dependent on support from the most profitable parts of EMI, the company's financial position meant that they had to avoid backing any risky productions.<ref name="Barber47"/>

In May 1973, Cohen announced a £3 million production slate of movies including an adaptation of ''[[Swallows and Amazons (1974 film)|Swallows and Amazons]]'' (1974) and a sequel to ''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]'' (1966)<ref>{{cite news|title=News in Brief|work=The Times|location=London|date=9 May 1973|page=4|via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> released as ''[[Alfie Darling]]'' (1975).

The greatest success of Cohen's regime was ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (1974), which Cohen later claimed was the first British movie fully financed by a British company to reach the top of the American box office charts.<ref>{{cite news|title='Murder on the Orient Express' tops US charts|work=The Times|location=London|date=11 February 1975|page=7|via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/531878/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Film Studios and Industry Bodies > EMI Film Productions|website=Screen Online|access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref>

In July 1975, Cohen announced a £6 million programme of eleven new films:<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 July 1975|page= 20|title=EMI putting £6 million into films in next 12 months|first=Stella|last=Shamoon}}</ref>
*''Aces High''
*''Evil Under The Sun'' (this later was replaced by ''Death on the Nile'')
*''Sergeant Steiner'' (later retitled ''Cross of Iron'')
*''[[Seven Nights in Japan]]''
*''[[To The Devil A Daughter]]''<ref>Walker, 1985 p141</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Z|title=News in Brief|work=The Times|location=London|date=9 July 1975|page=3|via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref>
*film spin offs of the TV series ''[[The Sweeney]]'' and ''[[The Likely Lads]]''
*''All Things Bright And Beautiful'' (later retitled ''It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet'')
*''Spanish Fly''
*A remake of ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]'' with Dick Emery (never made)
*''The [[Nat King Cole]] Story'' (never made)
Cohen resigned as chairman on 31 December 1977.<ref name="resign">{{cite news|title=FILM CLIPS: 'The Body Snatchers' Moves Up|author=Kilday, Gregg|date=Oct 22, 1977|work=Los Angeles Times|page=c11}}</ref>

=== Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings ===
In May 1976, the company purchased [[British Lion Films]] and the two men who ran British Lion, [[Michael Deeley]] and [[Barry Spikings]], became joint managing directors of EMI Distributors, with Nat Cohen remaining as chairman and chief executive. They also joined the EMI board, headed by Bernard Delfont.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Mills, Bart|title=British money is suddenly big in Hollywood,'right up with Fox and Warner'|work=The Guardian|date=September 2, 1977|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Acquisition of B Lion|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=May 19, 1976|page=18}}</ref><ref name="five">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-film-moguls-nat-cohen-part-five-1971-1988/|access-date=5 February 2025|date=5 February 2025|title=Forgotten British film moguls – Nat Cohen: Part Five (1971-1988)}}</ref> Delfont claimed "I squared it with Nat Cohen. Unlike the appointment of Bryan Forbes, there was no risk of the deal cutting across his interests. As chairman and chief executive of EMI Films Distribution he was kept happy with a revolving fun of six million pounds for a series of productions."<ref>Delfont p 188</ref>

Deeley and Spikings's method was to only make a film if at least half the budget was put up by an American studio, reducing their financial risk although making the studio's product less obviously British.<ref name="Deeley">{{Cite news|author=Michael Deeley|title=Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies|publisher=Pegasus Books|date=2009|pages=128–199}}</ref> They focused on movies with international appeal – i.e. action films – and major stars.<ref>{{Cite news|title=If a Movie Goes in America, Will Rest of World Buy It?: E.M.I. Films Chief Says Answer Depends Upon Motion and Stars|author=ALJEAN HARMETZ |date=August 1, 1977|work=The New York Times|page=34}}</ref> The initial Deeley-Spikings slate included three films shot in the US, with $18 million in all" ''[[The Deer Hunter]]'', ''[[Convoy (1978 film)|Convoy]]'' and ''[[The Driver]]'' (all 1978).<ref>{{cite news|title=CRITIC AT LARGE: In Search of World Viewers|author=Champlin, Charles.|date=May 27, 1977|work=Los Angeles Times|page=g1}}</ref> They also made three British-based films, ''[[Death on the Nile (1978 film)|Death on the Nile]]'' (1978), ''[[Warlords of Atlantis]]'' (1978) and ''[[Sweeney 2]]'' (1978).<ref>Deeley in his memoirs says the sixth film was ''Arabian Adventure''. See Deeley p 134</ref> Films announced but not made include ''The Last Gun'' and ''Chinese Bandit''.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Diabolique|url=https://diaboliquemagazine.com/john-wick-with-spurs-a-look-at-walter-hills-unmade-the-last-gun/|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title="John Wick with spurs" – A look at Walter Hill's Unmade The Last Gun|date=14 July 2020}}</ref>

EMI also signed an agreement to invest $5 million in Columbia films. They picked ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'', ''[[The Deep (1977 film)|The Deep]]'' and ''[[The Greatest (1977 film)|The Greatest]]'' (all 1977) and ''The Cheap Detective''.<ref>Deeley p 134</ref> Delfont says this was done in order to purchase Screen Gems, a company of Columbia, but the deal proved lucrative with only ''The Greatest'' not making money.<ref>Delfont p 193</ref>

In July 1976, EMI bought [[Roger Gimbel]]'s production company, Tomorrow Enterprises, and formed EMI Television, headed by Gimbel.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Gimbel Will Head EMI-TV|date=July 26, 1976|work=Los Angeles Times|page=f12}}</ref> They made a large number of American TV movies like ''[[The Amazing Howard Hughes]]'' (1977) and ''[[Deadman's Curve]]'' (1978).

EMI backed out of funding ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian|Life of Brian]]'' (1979) at the last moment, after Bernard Delfont read the script and objected to its treatment of religion.

In April 1978, EMI announced they would make films with the newly formed [[Orion Pictures]], including ''[[Arabian Adventure]]'' (1979) and other projects.<ref>{{cite news|last=Harmetz|first=Aliean|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/19/archives/orions-star-rises-in-hollywood-contrasts-to-mgms-contract-no.html?login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock|title=Orion's Star Rises in Hollywood
|work=The New York Times|date=19 April 1978|access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>

Michael Deeley left EMI in 1979 but Barry Spikings remained in charge of film production.

=== Spikings, AFD and Thorn-EMI merger ===
Spikings announced a slate of films under his auspices: ''[[The Jazz Singer (1980 film)|The Jazz Singer]]'' with [[Neil Diamond]], ''[[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|The Elephant Man]]'' (both 1980), ''[[Honky Tonk Freeway]]'' (1981) [[Franco Zeffirelli]]'s biopic of [[Maria Callas]], ''Discoland'', ''[[The Awakening (1980 film)|The Awakening]]'', and ''The Knight'' directed by [[Ridley Scott]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=The man who came to film|date=July 18, 1979|work=The Guardian|page=10}}</ref>

Delfont created a new company, [[Associated Film Distribution]], to distribute films of EMI and [[ITC Entertainment|ITC]], then controlled by [[Lew Grade]], his brother.<ref>{{Cite news|title=FILM CLIPS: A New Dimension for a Brother Act|author=Kilday, Gregg|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 28, 1978|page=b11}}</ref> EMI's film division was renamed '''Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment''', to reflect EMI's merger with [[Thorn Electrical Industries]] to become [[Thorn EMI]] in 1979.

In March 1980, EMI were only making one film in Britain ''[[The Mirror Crack'd]]'', which was released at the end of the year, but was a box-office failure. Lord Delfont announced that the company had purchased two British scripts, ''The Defense'' by [[John Mortimer]] and ''Off the Record'' by [[Frederick Forsyth]]. He admitted that sixty percent of the company's film budget would be spent in America the following year but "100% of the profits would come to this country... We have got to make films we believe are international, to get the money to bring exports back to this country."<ref>{{Cite news|title=British films get British boost|author=Barker, Dennis|work=The Guardian|date=Mar 12, 1980|page=2}}</ref>

In February 1981, Barry Spikings announced a slate of films worth £70 million, including ''[[Honky Tonk Freeway]]'', ''[[Memoirs of a Survivor]]'', ''Comrades'' and ''The Knight'' (a [[Walter Hill]] film).<ref>{{cite news|title=Orange order|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=Feb 2, 1981|page=11}}</ref> The latter was not made.

In March 1981, Spikings admitted AFD has not "gotten off to a flying start" and would be wound up, with Universal taking over distribution of EMI Films. He argued that "production and distribution are not linked" and pointed to the five Oscars that EMI films had earned.<ref>{{Cite news|title=British role in US film market is cut|author=Barker, Dennis|work=The Guardian|date=Mar 3, 1981|page=2}}</ref> In particular, ''[[Can't Stop the Music]]'', ''Honky Tonk Freeway'', and ''[[Raise the Titanic (film)|Raise the Titanic]]'' had been box-office failures.

Also in 1981, Thorn EMI entered the fast-growing home video market as '''Thorn EMI Video''', featuring an initial line-up of 14 titles (''The Tubes Video'', ''April Wine Live in London'', ''I Am a Dancer'', ''Can't Stop the Music'', ''Times Square'', ''Death on the Nile'', ''The Cruel Sea'', ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'', ''The Best of Benny Hill'', ''Scars of Dracula'', ''Sophia Loren: Her Own Story'', ''S.O.S. Titanic'', ''The Royal Wedding'', and ''Queen: Greatest Flix''). The division was primarily active in both the UK and the US, as well as in Australia. In addition to Thorn EMI's own material, the division licensed titles from other companies, mostly those who had no home video division at the time, including [[New Line Cinema]], [[Orion Pictures]], [[Carolco Pictures]] and [[Hemdale Film Corporation]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-11-06|title=It's Not TV: HBO, The Company That Changed Television: Expanding The Brand (Part 1)|url=https://www.popoptiq.com/its-not-tv-hbo-the-company-that-changed-television-expanding-the-brand-part-1/|access-date=2021-04-11|website=PopOptiq|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Verity Lambert ===
In January 1983, Barry Spikings left the company and [[Verity Lambert]] was appointed head of production. Gary Dartnall became executive chairman. Lambert's first slate was ''Slayground'', ''[[Comfort and Joy (1984 film)|Comfort and Joy]]'', ''Illegal Aliens'' (which became ''[[Morons from Outer Space]]'') and ''[[Dreamchild]]''. Lambert said they aimed to make five films a year ranging in budget from $5 to $10 million.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Cinema Verity: Peter Fiddick talks to EMI-Thorn 's new film production chief|author=Fiddick, Peter|work=The Guardian|date=Nov 24, 1983|page=13}}</ref>

On 1 March 1983, EMI Films filed a lawsuit against [[United Artists]], whereas EMI would finance ''[[WarGames]]'', and UA would receive North American rights, while EMI received international rights to the film and pay $4.5 million delivery.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1983-03-02|title=EMI Sues UA Over 'War Games' Distrib Rights, Territories|page=7|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

November 1984 saw Thorn EMI Video's US division form a partnership with pay television company [[Home Box Office, Inc.|HBO]]; the company then became known as '''Thorn EMI/HBO Video'''. The deal saw HBO take a stake in the venture and contribute their own productions for video distribution.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Seideman|first=Tony|date=1 December 1984|title=HBO, Thorn EMI Team in Video Venture|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1984/BB-1984-12-01.pdf|magazine=Billboard}}</ref>

In December 1984, Thorn EMI offered investors the chance to invest in several films by issuing £36 million worth of shares. The films were ''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]'' (1984), ''[[Morons from Outer Space]]'', ''[[Dreamchild]]'', ''[[Wild Geese II]]'' and ''[[The Holcroft Covenant (film)|The Holcroft Covenant]]''<ref>Walker 1985 p286</ref> (all 1985).<ref>{{cite news|title=Producer splits cost of films|work=The Guardian|date=Jan 10, 1985|page=4}}</ref>

In March 1985, Thorn-EMI announced they would set up a production fund worth $175 million to make around twenty films. Film Finance Director John Reiss said the fund would be used as loans for filmmakers or to invest in films budgeted around $13–14 million. Reiss said that the films would be made for international audiences.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Thorn EMI plans $175m film fund |author=Brown, Maggie|work=The Guardian|date=Mar 20, 1985|page=24}}</ref> On 15 May 1985, Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment made an agreement with [[David Begelman|Gladden Entertainment]] whereas Thorn EMI would release Gladden's films for international theatrical distribution.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1985-05-15|title=Thorn And Gladden Profess Ignorance of Revised Terms|page=4|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

Lambert resigned in July 1985. After this TESE wound down its in-house production arm and relied on films from independent outfits.<ref>Walker, 1985, p35-36</ref> That month, TESE signed a deal with French distributor AAA for a 30-month output of the entire British film library, serving 20 films, and did not want to cover all home video rights.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1985-07-17|title=Thorn EMI Inks France's AAA To 20-Pic Exclusive Output Deal|page=22|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> On August 6, 1985, Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment agreed deals with various production outfits such as John Bradbourne and [[Richard Goodwin (producer)|Richard Goodwin]], [[Jeremy Thomas]], [[Euan Lloyd]] and Chris Chrisafis, [[Verity Lambert]] and Simon Perry in order to gave the independent outfits "complete freedom" to develop motion pictures.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1985-08-07|title=Thorn EMI Signs Up Slew of British Indies To Production Pacts|page=3|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> The last films made under Lambert's watch were ''[[Clockwise (film)|Clockwise]]'' and ''Link''.<ref name="clock">{{cite news|title=Three of the best: David Newpart on three big theatrical names going into films|author=Newport, David|work=The Guardian|date=Aug 1, 1985|page=11}}</ref>

On 20 August 1985, Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment and [[Universal Pictures]], which was distributing EMI's films ever since 1981 after acquiring [[Associated Film Distribution]] elected to dissolve the U.S. partnership by mutual consent.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1985-08-21|title=EMI & Universal To Dissolve U.S. Distribution Pact|page=3|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

Lambert recalled in 1997: "the person who hired me left, and the person who came in didn't want to produce films and didn't want me. While I managed to make some films I was proud of... ''Dreamchild'', and ''Clockwise''... it was terribly tough and not a very happy experience. But I was determined to see out my three-year contract. By the end I'd had enough of corporate life and wanted to see what I could do as an independent."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lambert|first1=Verity|last2=Hughes|first2=Scott|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/cv-verity-lambert-founder-cinema-verity-1259888.html|date=5 May 1997|website=The Independent|title=CV; Verity Lambert Founder, Cinema Verity|access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref>

=== Denouement ===
In November 1985, Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment was placed up for sale with interested buyers including [[The Rank Organisation|Rank]], [[The Cannon Group, Inc.|Cannon]], [[Robert Maxwell]], [[Heron Communications]], and a management buyout led by Gary Dartnall.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1985-11-27|title=Several Offers But No TESE Sale Yet|page=3|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> The following month, in December 1985, it accepted a £110 million ($161.7 million) management offer to place the entire Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment division up for sale.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Watkins|first=Roger|date=1985-12-11|title=Thorn EMI accepts bid by management|pages=3, 7|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> The company's division, [[British Lion Films|British Lion Film Productions Ltd.]], which EMI bought in 1976, and all trademarks of the British Lion name, which was divested to a former staffer of the company, [[Peter Snell (producer)|Peter Snell]], of Britannic Film & Television.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1985-12-11|title=British Lion Subsid of TESE Sold Off To Former Staffer|pages=3, 26|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

In April 1986, Thorn EMI sold its film production and distribution arm (Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment), home video ([[Thorn EMI#Thorn EMI's film and video interests|Thorn EMI Video]]), and cinema ([[ABC Cinemas]]) operations to businessman [[Alan Bond (businessman)|Alan Bond]]. Bond, in turn, sold it to [[The Cannon Group, Inc.|The Cannon Group]] a week later.<ref name="terramedia.co.uk" /> A year after the purchase, a cash-strapped Cannon sold most of the film library to [[Weintraub Entertainment Group]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-07-fi-1232-story.html|title=Cannon Group Loses $9.9 Million in Quarter|author=WILLIAM K. KNOEDELSEDER JR|date=7 August 1987|access-date=21 February 2018|via=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> They also sold their stake in the video venture inherited from Thorn EMI (which had been renamed as '''HBO/Cannon Video''' in the meantime), resulting in HBO running the video label alone from that point forward.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1987-04-07|title=COMPANY NEWS; Cannon Will Sell Home Video Stake|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/07/business/company-news-cannon-will-sell-home-video-stake.html|access-date=2021-04-11|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|last2=|last3=|first3=|last4=|last5=|last6=|last7=|last8=|first8=|last9=|date=1987-04-07|title=HBO said it is buying out HBO/Cannon Video.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-07-fi-256-story.html|access-date=2021-04-11|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Weintraub Entertainment Group ==
[[Weintraub Entertainment Group]] was formed on July 1, 1986 by [[Jerry Weintraub]].<ref name=nst>{{cite news|title=Cannon sells its Film Library|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19870405&id=wG9PAAAAIBAJ&pg=5659,1133248|accessdate=7 July 2013|newspaper=New Straits Times|date=April 5, 1987|agency=Reuter}}</ref> In February 1987, WEG received $461 million in financing from [[Columbia Pictures]], [[Cineplex Odeon]] and others in the form of securities, bank loans and advances.<ref name=lat>{{cite news|last=Cieply|first=Michael|title=Weintraub's Worries : Box-Office Flops Add to Woes of Flashy 'Mini-Major'|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-11-ca-194-story.html|access-date=2 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 11, 1989}}</ref> [[The Coca-Cola Company]] and [[U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company|US Tobacco]] were principal investors.<ref name=nst/> WEG also arranged a $145-million, 7-year credit line with the [[Bank of America]]. WEG also signed a 20-year distribution deal with Columbia and planned to release seven or eight movies per year.<ref name=lat/>

In March 1987, WEG signed its first production and distribution deal, a three-year agreement with [[Robert Stigwood]]'s RSO Films for multiple films budgeted in the $12-million to $15-million range.<ref>{{cite news|title=Weintraub Entertainment and RSO reached a pact|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-27-fi-137-story.html|access-date=2 July 2012|date=March 27, 1987|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> With Stigwood's partnership, WEG was to finance a film version of ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]'' with [[Oliver Stone]] as writer/director and [[Meryl Streep]] as [[Eva Perón]]. However, the studio dropped the project.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/19/movies/is-it-time-now-to-cry-for-evita.html | work=The New York Times | first=James | last=Greeberg | title=Is It Time Now to Cry for 'Evita'? | date=19 November 1989}}</ref>

WEG purchased from [[The Cannon Group, Inc.|The Cannon Group]] in May 1987 its 2,000-title British film library,<ref>{{cite news|last=Knoedelseder Jr.|first=William K.|title=Cannon Group Loses $9.9 Million in Quarter|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-07-fi-1232-story.html|access-date=2 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 7, 1987}}</ref> the Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment library, for $85 million with $50 million from a loan.<ref name=lat/> On July 20, [[Harry Usher]] joined the Group as President of the Weintraub International Enterprises division and as a senior vice president.<ref>{{cite news|title=Usher Named Division Head at Weintraub|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-12-fi-3286-story.html|access-date=2 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 12, 1987}}</ref>

In January 1988, [[Barney Rosenzweig]] was hired as chairman of the television unit, corporate vice president and a member of the executive committee.<ref>{{cite news|last=Delugach|first=Al|title=Weintraub Taps Rosenzweig as TV Unit Chief|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-01-fi-26734-story.html|access-date=2 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=February 1, 1988}}</ref> In July, the Bank of America terminated its credit line with Weintraub after difficulties in syndicating parts of the loan to other banks due to the Thorn-EMI loan.<ref name=lat/> The Group's first release was ''The Big Blue'' in August; it grossed $1.6 million the opening weekend.<ref>{{cite news|last=Voland |first=John|title=WEEKEND BOX OFFICE : Freddy Shreds the Movie Competition|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-23-ca-756-story.html|access-date=2 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 23, 1988}}</ref>

In January 1989, Usher left his position as President of the Weintraub International Enterprises.<ref>{{cite news|title=Harry Usher Joins Executive Search Firm|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-07-fi-11-story.html|access-date=2 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 7, 1989|agency=ASSOCIATED PRESS}}</ref> The Bank of America and WEG established a new credit line for two years and $95 million with [[Crédit Lyonnais]] participating.<ref name=lat/>

In 1989, as a result of Sony/Columbia hiring [[Peter Guber]] and [[Jon Peters]] away from [[Warner Bros.]], Sony/Columbia traded its 15% share in WEG.<ref name=cpps>{{cite book|last=Dick|first=Bernard F.|title=Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio|year=1992|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|page=56|isbn=9780813132785|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Pka5hrnGQcC&q=Weintraub+Entertainment+Group+bankruptcy+library&pg=PA56}}</ref>

In September 1990, WEG filed for [[Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code|Chapter 11 bankruptcy]]. Later that month, Jerry Weintraub left the company and forged a deal with [[Warner Bros.]], while Columbia still remained indebted to releasing WEG films.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cieply|first=Michael|title=Weintraub Is Expected to File Chapter 11 : Entertainment: The film firm seeks to cut off bondholders' action|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-14-fi-364-story.html|access-date=7 July 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=September 14, 1990}}</ref>

Film Asset Holding Co., a company formed by WEG's two primary bank creditors, sued Weintraub over his structuring of a sale of the ''Peter Pan'' story to Sony Pictures Entertainment in the fall of 1990. Weintraub and Film Assets settled in January 1992.<ref>{{cite news|last=Citron|first=Alan|title=Creditors Agree With Weintraub to Settle Lawsuit : * Film: Two banks had accused the producer of taking an unwarranted $748,000 in developing 'Hook.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-18-fi-356-story.html|access-date=7 July 2013|newspaper=latimes.com|date=January 18, 1992}}</ref>

In August 1998, a jury verdict for $7 million was lost by [[Bear Stearns]] to investors who had been misled by the brokerage's $83 million bond issue prospectus for the now-bankrupt Weintraub Entertainment Group.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bear Stearns Misled Its Investors, Jury Finds|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-25-fi-16189-story.html|access-date=2 July 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 25, 1998|agency=Bloomberg News}}</ref>

After the company shut down its assets were reorganized into the WEG Acquisition Corp, and are currently held by [[Sony Pictures|Sony]], while the television rights are controlled by [[Paramount Pictures]].

== Lumiere Pictures and Television/UGC DA/Canal+ Image International ==
Its early origins of Canal+ Image and StudioCanal were first founded on 5 August 1873 as Marseille Louis and Adolphe Fraissinet, under the corporate name '''Nouvelle Compagnie Marseillaise de navigation à vapeur A. et L. Fraissinet et compagnie'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.infogreffe.fr/entreprise-societe/056801293-studiocanal-920192B041560000/actes-deposes.html|title=Statuts mis à jour|website=Infogreffe|author=[[StudioCanal]]|access-date=10 March 2024}}</ref>

La Compagnie Fraissinet was a Marseille arming company by maritime transport. During the 1960s, decolonization and competition with jet-powered air travel weakened the group's results and it ended up selling its maritime assets to the Chargers Gatten in 1964.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Les Fraissinet, une famille d'armateurs protestants marseillais|author=Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français|journal=Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français (1903-) |date=1989 |volume=135 |pages=229–260 |jstor=24296674 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24296674|access-date=10 March 2024}}</ref>

In July 1981, [[Cyril Bourlon de Rouvre|Cyril de Rouvre]] did an OPA surprise on the Compagnie Fraissinet en difficulté. Having become specialised in the maintenance and resale of business aircraft, Fraissinet-Transair becomes the Financière Robur in tribute to the hero of Jules Verne, Robur-le-Conquérant. The grandson of Antoine de Rouvre, who had embarked on the cinema in the late 1920s, Cyril de Rouvre, brought together his film assets within the Robur Financière: the Compagnie Française de cinématographie (CFC), the Consortium Financier pour la production de films (CFPF) and Coficiné, which specialised in the financing of production. Rouvre gradually separated from its industrial activities and then bought multiple film catalogues (Les Films Gibé, Les Films Corona, Silver Films) created in August 1987 via a new subsidiary, Robur Droits Audiovisuels.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

On 30 June 1992, the Financière Robur merged its catalogue of films with that of UGC by absorbing UGC Droits Audiovisuels, its subsidiary founded in 1985. The UGC group takes control of the new company, the first catalogue of films in France with nearly 1500 feature films and 500 hours of audiovisual programmes.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

In November 1993, UGC Droits Audiovisuels acquired United Communication, mainly holding the French-speaking rights of the MGM and United Artists catalogue, nearly 800 American films and 2,000 hours of television. The continued consolidation in January 1996 with the acquisition of the group Lumière de Jean Cazès, the second French catalogue of film and audiovisual rights, having itself acquired the British catalogue Weintraub (formerly Thorn EMI) in 1991, while Lumiere Pictures and Television formed earlier in 1992 as a merger between two French companies: Jean Cazes' Initial Groupe (est. 1984) and Investissements en Droits Audiovisuelles (est. 1987). Lumiere owned a substantial library of films from the Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment/Weintraub library, representing a third of all movies made in the UK from the beginning of silent pictures. Cazes then spun off Lumiere's Los Angeles branch into a new company, Lumiere International.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avid.wiki/Lumiere_Pictures|title=Lumiere Pictures|website=Audiovisual Identity Database|access-date=10 March 2024}}</ref>

Later that year, in June, Canal+, in turn, acquired UGC Droits Audiovisuels, with the rights to more than 5,000 films. An alliance strongly encouraged by their common shareholder, the General of the Eaux, which holds both 25% of UGC Droits Audiovisuels and 20% of Canal+.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

UGC Droits Audiovisuels and Canal+ D.A. was merged and renamed Canal+ Image International in June 1997, before the merger of the company [[StudioCanal]] with Le Studio Canal+ in 2000.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

In the 1990s to early 2000s, [[Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment|Warner Home Video]] formerly handled the distribution of StudioCanal titles through the ''Canal+ Image'' label in the United Kingdom on VHS and DVD. However, its name in the UK was kept until 2006 when StudioCanal opened its distribution unit in the UK, with titles distributed through [[StudioCanal UK|Optimum Releasing]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=James|first=Alison|title=Studio Canal moves into Blighty|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/news/studio-canal-moves-into-blighty-1200505900/|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=2011-09-04|author2=Dawtrey, Adam |date=2006-05-07}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
Lumiere Pictures and Television financed and produced films under several names and with a series of production partners. Below are the main ones:
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=== Bryan Forbes ===
* ''[[Eyewitness (1970 film)|Eyewitness]]'' (1970) ([[Associated British Picture Corporation|ABPC]]) ([[ITC Entertainment|ITC]])
* ''[[And Soon the Darkness (1970 film)|And Soon the Darkness]]'' (1970) (ABPC)
* ''[[Hoffman (film)|Hoffman]]'' (1970) (ABPC)
* ''[[The Man Who Haunted Himself]]'' (1970) (ABPC)
* ''[[The Breaking of Bumbo]]'' (1970) (ABPC)
* ''[[The Railway Children (1970 film)|The Railway Children]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Spring and Port Wine (film)|Spring and Port Wine]]'' (1970)
* ''[[A Fine and Private Place (film)|A Fine and Private Place]]'' (1970) (abandoned)
* ''[[The Raging Moon]]'' (1971)
* ''[[The Tales of Beatrix Potter]]'' (1971)
* ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Mr. Forbush and the Penguins]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Dulcima]]'' (1971)

=== Hammer co-productions ===
* ''[[On the Buses (film)|On the Buses]]'' (July 1971)
* ''[[Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]]'' (October 1971)
* ''[[Mutiny on the Buses]]'' (June 1972)
* ''[[Straight On till Morning (film)|Straight on Till Morning]]'' (July 1972)
* ''[[Demons of the Mind]]'' (November 1972)
* ''[[Man at the Top (film)|Man at the Top]]'' (1973) (AE/H)
* ''[[Love Thy Neighbour (1973 film)|Love Thy Neighbour]]'' (July 1973)
* ''[[Holiday on the Buses]]'' (December 1973)
* ''[[To the Devil a Daughter]]'' (March 1976) (H)

===MGM-EMI===
* ''[[Get Carter]]'' (1971) (ME)
* ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'' (1971) (ME) (Dist by C in USA)
* ''[[The Boy Friend (1971 film)|The Boy Friend]]'' (1971) (ME)

=== Nat Cohen/Anglo-EMI ===
* ''[[All the Way Up (film)|All the Way Up]]'' (1970) ([[Anglo-Amalgamated|AA]])
* ''[[Spring and Port Wine (film)|Spring and Port Wine]]'' (1970) (AA)
* ''[[Entertaining Mr Sloane (film)|Entertaining Mr Sloane]]'' (1970) (AA)
* ''[[The Body (1970 film)|The Body]]'' (1970) (AE)
* ''[[Percy (1971 film)|Percy]]'' (1971) (AE)
* ''[[Up Pompeii (film)|Up Pompeii]]'' (1971) (AE)
* ''[[Villain (1971 film)|Villain]]'' (1971) (AE) – produced by Kanter, Ladd and Kastner
* ''[[Family Life (1971 British film)|Family Life]]'' (1971) (AE) – directed by Ken Loach
* ''[[Up the Chastity Belt]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Steptoe and Son (film)|Steptoe and Son]]'' (1972)
* ''[[I Am a Dancer]]'' (1972) (AE)
* ''[[Afternoon of a Champion]]'' (1972) (AE) (documentary)
* ''[[Up the Front]]'' (1972) (AE)
* ''[[Henry VIII and His Six Wives (film)|Henry VIII and His Six Wives]]'' (1972) (AE)
* ''[[Endless Night (1972 film)|Endless Night]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Our Miss Fred]]'' (1972) (AE)
* ''[[Fear Is the Key (film)|Fear Is the Key]]'' (1972) – produced by Kanter, Ladd and Kastner (AE) (Dist by P in USA)
* ''[[Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (film)|Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width]]'' (1973)
* ''[[Baxter!]]'' (1973) (AE)
* ''[[Steptoe and Son Ride Again]]'' (1973)
* ''[[The Final Programme (film)|The Final Programme]]'' (1973) (AE)
* ''[[Take Me High]] (1973)
* ''[[The Dove (1974 film)|The Dove]]'' (1974) (D) (Dist by P in USA)
* ''Our Cissy'' (1974) (short)
* ''[[Stardust (1974 film)|Stardust]]'' (1974) (AE) (Dist by C in USA)
* ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (1974) (AE) (Dist by P in USA)
* ''[[Sunday in the Country]]'' (1974) (D)
* ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' (1975)
* ''[[All Creatures Great and Small (film)|All Creatures Great and Small]]'' (1975)
* ''Trick or Treat?'' (1976) (abandoned)
* ''[[The Likely Lads (film)|The Likely Lads]]'' (1976)
* ''[[Spanish Fly (1975 film)|Spanish Fly]]'' (1976) (D)
* ''[[It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet]]'' (1976)
* ''[[Aces High (film)|Aces High]]'' (1976) (D)
* ''[[Seven Nights in Japan]]'' (1976) ([[Paramount Pictures|P]])
* ''[[Sweeney!]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Cross of Iron]]'' (1977) (A-E)
* ''Twenty Five Years'' (1977) (documentary)
* ''[[Welcome to Blood City]]'' (1977)

=== Co-productions with Columbia ===
* ''[[Nickelodeon (film)|Nickelodeon]]'' (December 1976) - also with British Lion
* ''[[The Greatest (1977 film)|The Greatest]]'' (May 1977) – also with British Lion
* ''[[The Deep (1977 film)|The Deep]]'' (June 1977)
* ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'' (November 1977)
* ''[[The Cheap Detective]]'' (June 1978)

=== Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings regime ===
* ''[[Silver Bears]]'' (1977) (Dist by C in USA)
* ''[[Sweeney 2]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Warlords of Atlantis]]'' (1978) (Dist by C in USA)
* ''[[Convoy (1978 film)|Convoy]]'' (1978) – with United Artists
* ''[[The Driver]]'' (1978) – with 20th Century Fox
* ''[[Death on the Nile (1978 film)|Death on the Nile]]'' (1978) (Dist by P in USA)
* ''[[The Deer Hunter]]'' (1978) – with Universal (Inducted into the [[National Film Registry]] in 1996)

=== TV movies ===
* ''[[The Amazing Howard Hughes]]'' (April 1977)
* ''[[The Girl Called Hatter Fox]]'' (October 1977)
* ''[[Special Olympics (film)|Special Olympics]]'' (February 1978)
* ''[[Forever (1978 film)|Forever]]'' (January 1978)
* ''[[Deadman's Curve]]'' (February 1978)
* ''[[Just Me and You (1978 film)|Just Me and You]]'' (May 1978)
* ''[[One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story]]'' (September 1978)
* ''[[Betrayal (1978 film)|Betrayal]]'' (November 1978)
* ''[[Steel Cowboy]]'' (December 1978)
* ''[[Lawman Without a Gun]]'' (December 1978)
* ''[[Deathmoon]]'' (May 1978)
* ''[[Lawman Without a Gun]]'' (1978)
* ''[[The Cracker Factory]]'' (March 1979)
* ''[[S.O.S. Titanic]]'' (September 1979)
* ''[[Survival of Dana]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Can You Hear the Laughter? The Story of Freddie Prinze]]'' (September 1979)
* ''[[Orphan Train (film)|Orphan Train]]'' (December 1979)
* ''[[The Dance Goes On (1980 film)|The Dances Goes On]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Sophia Loren: Her Own Story]]'' (October 1980)
* ''[[My Kidnapper, My Love]]'' (December 1980)
* ''[[The Killing of Randy Webster]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Broken Promise (film)|Broken Promise]]'' (1981)
* ''[[The Manions of America]]'' (1981)
* ''[[A Piano for Mrs. Cimino]]'' (February 1982)
* ''[[A Question of Honor (1982 film)|A Question of Honor]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Coming Out of the Ice]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Deadly Encounter]]'' (1982)
* ''[[The Legend of Walks Far Woman]]'' (May 1982) (filmed 1979)
* ''[[Packin' It In]]'' (1983)

=== Barry Spikings ===
* ''[[Arabian Adventure]]'' (July 1979) – with British Lion – distributed by AFD
* ''[[The Crown Prince (film)|The Crown Prince]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Can't Stop the Music]]'' (June 1980) – distributed by AFD
* ''[[The Awakening (1980 film)|The Awakening]]'' (October 1980) – with Orion – distributed by Warners
* ''[[Times Square (1980 film)|Times Square]]'' (October 1980) – with Robert Stigwood, distributed by AFD
* ''[[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|The Elephant Man]]'' (October 1980) – with Brooksfilms – distributed by Columbia-EMI-Warner (UK), Paramount (US)
* ''[[The Jazz Singer (1980 film)|The Jazz Singer]]'' (December 1980) – distributed by AFD
* ''[[The Mirror Crack'd]]'' (December 1980) – distributed by AFD
* ''[[Honky Tonk Freeway]]'' (August 1981) – distributed by AFD
* ''[[Evil Under the Sun (1982 film)|Evil Under the Sun]]'' (March 1982) – distributed by AFD
* ''[[Britannia Hospital]]'' (May 1982) – with British Lion, distributed by United Artists Classics
* ''[[Frances (film)|Frances]]'' (December 1982) – with Brooksfilms, distributed by Universal
* ''[[Second Thoughts (1983 film)|Second Thoughts]]'' (February 1983) – distributed by Universal
* ''[[Bad Boys (1983 film)|Bad Boys]]'' (March 1983) – distributed by Universal
* ''[[Tender Mercies]]'' (Mar 1983) – distributed by Universal
* ''[[Strange Invaders]]'' (Sep 1983) – distributed by Orion
* ''[[Cross Creek (film)|Cross Creek]]'' (May 1983) – with Universal, distributed by AFD, Universal
* ''[[Handgun (film)|Handgun]]'' (May 1983, produced in 1981) - distributed by WB

=== Verity Lambert ===
* ''[[Slayground]]'' (December 1983) - distributed by Universal
* ''[[Comfort and Joy (1984 film)|Comfort and Joy]]'' (August 1984) - with Kings Road, distributed by Universal
* ''[[Not for Publication (1984 film)|Not for Publication]]'' (November 1984) - distributed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company
* ''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]'' (December 1984) - with HBO, distributed by Columbia
* ''[[Morons from Outer Space]]'' (March 1985) - distributed by Universal
* ''[[Restless Natives]]'' (June 1985) - distributed by Orion Classics
* ''[[Dreamchild]]'' (October 1985) - distributed by Universal
* ''[[Wild Geese II]]'' (October 1985) - distributed by Universal
* ''[[The Holcroft Covenant (film)|The Holcroft Covenant]]'' (October 1985) - distributed by Universal
* ''[[Highlander (film)|Highlander]]'' (March 1986) - distributed by 20th Century-Fox
* ''[[Clockwise (film)|Clockwise]]'' (March 1986) - distributed by Universal
* ''[[Link (film)|Link]]'' (March 1986) - distributed by Universal

=== Later films ===
* ''[[The Manhattan Project (film)|The Manhattan Project]]'' (June 1986) (TESE) - with Gladden Entertainment, distributed by 20th Century-Fox
* ''[[It Couldn't Happen Here]]'' (July 1988)
* ''[[Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem]]'' (May 2003) (D) (credited as "[[Virgin Records|Virgin Music]]", a member of the EMI Group")
* AA = co-production with [[Anglo-Amalgamated]]
* ABPC = produced by [[Associated British Picture Corporation]]
* AE = as Anglo-EMI
* AFD = distributed by [[ITC Entertainment|Associated Film Distributors]]
* C = co-production with [[Columbia Pictures]]
* D = distributor only
* H = co-production with [[Hammer Film Productions]]
* MGM = co-production with [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
* Orion = co-production with [[Orion Pictures]]
* P = co-production with [[Paramount Pictures]]
* TESE = as Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment
* U = co-production with [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]
* UA = co-production with [[United Artists]]
* WB = co-production with [[Warner Bros.]]

=== Weintraub Entertainment Group ===
*''[[The Big Blue]]'' (1988): distribution rights, $3 million
*''[[Fresh Horses (film)|Fresh Horses]]'' (1988): first original production, grossed only $7 million
*''[[My Stepmother Is an Alien]]'' (1988): $26 million budget, grossed $13.8 million
*''[[The Karen Carpenter Story]]'' (1989): a TV movie release on [[CBS]]<ref name=lat/>
*''[[Listen to Me (film)|Listen to Me]]'' (1989)
*''[[She's Out of Control]]'' (1989)
*''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'' (1989)
*''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy II]]'' (1989)
{{Div col end}}

==See also==
*[[Lumière (Brazilian film company)]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* Forbes, Bryan, ''A Divided Life'', Mandarin Paperbacks, 1993
* Walker, Alexander, ''Hollywood England'', Harrap and Stein, 1974
* Walker, Alexander, ''National Heroes: British Cinema in the Seventies and Eighties'', Harrap, 1985
* Walker, Alexander, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=lFlSHQAACAAJ Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984–2000]'', Orion Books, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-7528-6484-6}}.

== External links ==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200804210833/https://www.studiocanal.com/en/studiocanal-group/historical Official history] (archived); [https://www.studiocanal.com/company-history/ current version]
*[[:fr:Studiocanal|Information about their history]]

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Eddie Hemmings (rugby league)

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'''Eddie Hemmings''' is an English [[rugby league]] commentator who was [[Sky Sports|Sky Sports’]] main commentator for the sport, before retiring in April 2019. Hailing from [[Aigburth]], [[Merseyside]], [[England]], Hemmings became known for his commentary partnership with [[Mike Stephenson]] from 1988 to 2017. He is widely recognised as "the voice of rugby league" after a career spanning over 30 years in the sport.
He and [[Andrew Voss]] are the two commentators for the video game ''Rugby League Live 4''. <ref>{{cite book |last=Stephenson |first=Mike |title=Stevo: Looking Back |date=September 2008 |publisher=Vertical Editions |page=9 |isbn=978-1-904091-30-1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/jan/21/super-league-shake-up-tv-love-affair-rugby |title=Super League shake-up is good news but TV love affair needs reigniting |last1=Wilson |first1=Andy |date=21 January 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>

Hemmings is a supporter of [[St Helens RFC]].

==Early career==
Hemmings began his career on the now defunct [[Liverpool]] Weekly News, before moving to [[BBC Radio Merseyside]], where he became sports editor, proceeding to become a sports reporter/commentator on [[BBC Radio 2]] in the 1980s. Hemmings and Stephenson actually first met up for commentary duties at the station; Stephenson was invited to be Hemmings' summariser during Great Britain's tour of [[Australia]] in 1988.

[[File:Eddie Hemmings.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Hemmings presenting for ''Sky Sports'' during the [[2008 Rugby League World Cup]]]]

==Television career==
Hemmings joined satellite broadcaster [[British Satellite Broadcasting|BSB]] as the anchorman/commentator for its rugby league coverage at the network's launch in 1990. Stephenson was brought in to be Hemmings' regular sidekick. The pairing were kept together when BSB and [[Sky Television (1984–1990)|Sky Television]] merged to form [[BSkyB]]; the combined satellite TV network inherited BSB's rugby league TV contract. Before this he was a Sports Reporter on the BBC regional news programme [[BBC North West Tonight|North West Tonight]] and was a presenter/co-presenter on the Saturday Teatime sports round-up Sport North West where he co-presented with Richard Duckenfield, Paul Craven, Andy Wyatt and sometimes presented on his own and the Friday Night BBC2 regional sports programme Sportsround and on network BBC a news/feature reporter on [[Grandstand (TV programme)|Grandstand]] and [[Sportsnight]]

Hemmings was the main caller for nearly all live Super League matches broadcast on Sky Sports; the two matches broadcast live each week, plus all the play-offs and Grand Final matches.

On 1 March 2019, Hemmings announced his retirement from commentary and on 19 April 2019, he commentated on Wigan vs St Helens, his final Super League game for Sky Sports before retiring.

==Influence==
On 13 February 2009, commentating on a [[St Helens R.F.C.|St. Helens]] and [[Warrington Wolves|Warrington]] match, Hemmings called for the names and numbers on the back of the Warrington away jersey to be changed as he found it hard to read. Warrington recognised this and two weeks later, in a match between [[Wakefield Trinity|Wakefield Trinity Wildcats]] and [[Warrington Wolves|Warrington]], Warrington altered their away jersey through having a white background behind the numbers.

==References==
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1981–82 FA Cup

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The '''1981–82 FA Cup''' was the 101st season of the world's oldest [[association football|football]] knockout competition, '''The Football Association Challenge Cup''', or [[FA Cup]] for short.

The competition culminated with the [[FA Cup Final]], held at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]], [[London]] on 22 May 1982. The match was contested by two London clubs, [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] and [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]], with Tottenham retaining the trophy with a 1–0 victory in a replay after a 1–1 draw in the first game.

==Qualifying rounds==
Most participating clubs that were not members of the [[English Football League|Football League]] competed in the qualifying rounds to secure one of 28 places available in the first round.

The winners from the fourth qualifying round were [[Blyth Spartans A.F.C.|Blyth Spartans]], [[Horden Community Welfare F.C.|Horden Colliery Welfare]], [[Bishop Auckland F.C.|Bishop Auckland]], [[Workington A.F.C.|Workington]], [[Penrith A.F.C.|Penrith]], [[Runcorn F.C. Halton|Runcorn]], [[Mossley A.F.C.|Mossley]], [[Nuneaton Town F.C.|Nuneaton Borough]], [[Stafford Rangers F.C.|Stafford Rangers]], [[Kettering Town F.C.|Kettering Town]], [[Willenhall Town F.C.|Willenhall Town]], [[Harlow Town F.C.|Harlow Town]], [[Boston United F.C.|Boston United]], [[Wycombe Wanderers F.C.|Wycombe Wanderers]], [[Hendon F.C.|Hendon]], [[Bedford Town F.C.|Bedford Town]], [[Dagenham F.C.|Dagenham]], [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]], [[Dover F.C.|Dover]], [[Barking F.C.|Barking]], [[Hastings United F.C. (1948)|Hastings United]], [[Redbridge Forest F.C.|Leytonstone & Ilford]], [[Weymouth F.C.|Weymouth]], [[Bideford A.F.C.|Bideford]], [[Minehead A.F.C.|Minehead]], [[Taunton Town F.C.|Taunton Town]], [[Dorchester Town F.C.|Dorchester Town]] and [[Yeovil Town F.C.|Yeovil Town]].

Penrith and Willenhall Town were the only qualifying clubs appearing in the competition proper for the first time. Of the others, Hastings United had not featured at this stage since [[1960–61 FA Cup|1960–61]], Dorchester Town since [[1959–60 FA Cup|1959-60]], Horden Colliery Welfare since [[1954–55 FA Cup|1954-55]] and Taunton Town since a predecessor club of the same name had successfully navigated the qualifying rounds in [[1930–31 FA Cup|1930-31]].

{{for|all qualifying round results|1981–82 FA Cup qualifying rounds}}

==First round proper==
The 48 teams from the [[Football League Third Division|Football League Third]] and [[Football League Fourth Division|Fourth Divisions]] entered in this round along with the 28 non-league clubs from the qualifying rounds and [[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]], [[Bishop's Stortford F.C.|Bishop's Stortford]], [[Sutton United]] and [[Enfield F.C.|Enfield]] who were given byes. This round included six clubs from various competitions at Step 8 of the English football system: Blyth Spartans, Horden Colliery Welfare, Bishop Auckland and Penrith from the [[1981–82 Northern Football League|Northern League]], Bideford from the [[1981–82 Western Football League|Western League]] and Willenhall Town from the [[1981–82 West Midlands (Regional) League|West Midlands (Regional) League]].

The initial matches were played over the weekend of 20–21 November 1981 with replays mainly staged on 23–25 November.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!Tie no
!Home team
!Score
!Away team
!Date
|-
|1||'''[[Enfield F.C.|Enfield]]''' (5)||2–0||[[Hastings United F.C. (1948)|Hastings United]] (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|2||'''[[Chesterfield F.C.|Chesterfield]]'''||4–1||[[Preston North End]]||21 November 1981
|-
|3||[[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]]||2–2||[[Carlisle United]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Carlisle United]]'''''||''3–1''||''[[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|4||'''[[AFC Bournemouth]]'''||1–0||[[Reading F.C.|Reading]]||21 November 1981
|-
|5||[[Bristol City]]||0–0||[[Torquay United]]||20 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Torquay United]]''||''1–2''||'''''[[Bristol City]]'''''||25 November 1981
|-
|6||[[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]||0–0||[[Runcorn F.C.|Runcorn]] (5)||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Runcorn F.C.|Runcorn]]''||''1–2''||'''''[[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]'''''||24 November 1981
|-
|7||[[Dorchester Town]] (6)||3–3||[[Minehead F.C.|Minehead]] (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Minehead F.C.|Minehead]]''||''0–4''||'''''[[Dorchester Town]]'''''||23 November 1981
|-
|8||[[Rochdale F.C.|Rochdale]]||2–2||[[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]]''||''2–2''||''[[Rochdale F.C.|Rochdale]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]]'''''||''1–0''||''[[Rochdale F.C.|Rochdale]]''||30 November 1981
|-
|9||[[Weymouth F.C.|Weymouth]] (5)||0–0||[[Northampton Town]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Northampton Town]]'''''||''6–2''||''[[Weymouth F.C.|Weymouth]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|10||[[Lincoln City F.C.|Lincoln City]]||2–2||[[Port Vale F.C.|Port Vale]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Port Vale F.C.|Port Vale]]''||''0–0''||''[[Lincoln City F.C.|Lincoln City]]''||30 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Port Vale F.C.|Port Vale]]'''''||''2–0''||''[[Lincoln City F.C.|Lincoln City]]''||2 December 1981
|-
|11||[[Stafford Rangers]] (5)||1–2||'''[[York City]]'''||21 November 1981
|-
|12||'''[[Swindon Town]]'''||2–1||[[Taunton Town]] (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|13||[[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]]||2–2||[[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]] (5)||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]]'''''||''3–0''||''[[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]]''||23 November 1981
|-
|14||'''[[Bishop Auckland F.C.|Bishop Auckland]]''' (8)||4–1||[[Nuneaton Borough]] (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|15||[[Tranmere Rovers]]||1–1||[[Bury F.C.|Bury]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Bury F.C.|Bury]]'''''||''3–1''||''[[Tranmere Rovers]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|16||'''[[Stockport County]]'''||3–1||[[Mossley A.F.C.|Mossley]] (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|17||[[Dover F.C.|Dover]] (6)||0–2||'''[[Oxford United]]'''||21 November 1981
|-
|18||'''[[Brentford F.C.|Brentford]]'''||2–0||[[Exeter City]]||21 November 1981
|-
|19||[[Bristol Rovers]]||1–2||'''[[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]]'''||21 November 1981
|-
|20||[[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]]||1–1||[[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]]'''''||''3–2''||''[[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]]''||25 November 1981
|-
|21||[[Plymouth Argyle F.C.|Plymouth Argyle]]||0–0||[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]'''''||''1–0''||''[[Plymouth Argyle F.C.|Plymouth Argyle]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|22||'''[[Penrith F.C.|Penrith]]''' (8)||1–0||[[Chester City F.C.|Chester]]||21 November 1981
|-
|23||'''[[Scunthorpe United]]'''||1–0||[[Bradford City A.F.C.|Bradford City]]||21 November 1981
|-
|24||[[Blyth Spartans]] (8)||1–2||'''[[Walsall F.C.|Walsall]]'''||21 November 1981
|-
|25||[[Bedford Town F.C.|Bedford Town]] (6)||0–2||'''[[Wimbledon F.C.|Wimbledon]]'''||21 November 1981
|-
|26||[[Mansfield Town]]||0–1||'''[[Doncaster Rovers]]'''||21 November 1981
|-
|27||[[Halifax Town]]||0–3||'''[[Peterborough United]]'''||21 November 1981
|-
|28||[[Workington F.C.|Workington]] (6)||1–1||[[Huddersfield Town]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Huddersfield Town]]'''''||''5–0''||''[[Workington F.C.|Workington]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|29||'''[[Hereford United]]'''||3–1||[[Southend United]]||21 November 1981
|-
|30||[[Bishop's Stortford F.C.|Bishop's Stortford]] (6)||2–2||[[Sutton United]] (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Sutton United]]'''''||''2–1''||''[[Bishop's Stortford F.C.|Bishop's Stortford]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|31||[[Bideford F.C.|Bideford]] (8)||1–2||'''[[Barking F.C.|Barking]]''' (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|32||'''[[Aldershot F.C.|Aldershot]]'''||2–0||[[Redbridge Forest F.C.|Leytonstone & Ilford]] (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|33||[[Horden Colliery Welfare A.F.C.|Horden CW]] (8)||0–1||'''[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]'''||21 November 1981
|-
|34||[[Wigan Athletic]]||2–2||[[Hartlepool United]]||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Hartlepool United]]'''''||''1–0''||''[[Wigan Athletic]]''||25 November 1981
|-
|35||[[Boston United]] (5)||0–1||'''[[Kettering Town]]''' (5)||21 November 1981
|-
|36||[[Harlow Town]] (6)||0–0||[[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]] (5)||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]]'''''||''1–0''||''[[Harlow Town]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|37||'''[[Colchester United]]'''||2–0||[[Newport County A.F.C.|Newport County]]||21 November 1981
|-
|38||[[Hendon F.C.|Hendon]] (6)||1–1||[[Wycombe Wanderers]] (6)||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Wycombe Wanderers]]'''''||''2–0''||''[[Hendon F.C.|Hendon]]''||24 November 1981
|-
|39||[[Dagenham F.C.|Dagenham]] (5)||2–2||[[Yeovil Town F.C.|Yeovil Town]] (5)||21 November 1981
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Yeovil Town F.C.|Yeovil Town]]''||''0–1''||'''''[[Dagenham F.C.|Dagenham]]'''''||25 November 1981
|-
|40||[[Willenhall Town]] (8)||0–1||'''[[Crewe Alexandra]]'''||21 November 1981
|}

==Second round proper==

The Second Round was intended to be played on 12 December 1981, although many were not played until 15 December or even 2 January or 9 January. Replays were played on various dates after these games. Step 8 clubs Bishop Auckland and Penrith were the lowest-ranked teams in the round.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!Tie no
!Home team
!Score
!Away team
!Date
|-
|1||'''[[Enfield F.C.|Enfield]]''' (5)||4–1||[[Wimbledon F.C.|Wimbledon]]||15 December 1981
|-
|2||[[Chesterfield F.C.|Chesterfield]]||0–1||'''[[Huddersfield Town]]'''||12 December 1981
|-
|3||'''[[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]]''' (5)||2–0||[[Wycombe Wanderers]] (6)||15 December 1981
|-
|4||'''[[Bristol City]]'''||3–0||[[Northampton Town]]||15 December 1981
|-
|5||[[Bury F.C.|Bury]]||1–1||[[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]||2 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]'''''||''2–1''||''[[Bury F.C.|Bury]]''||4 January 1982
|-
|6||[[Dorchester Town]] (6)||1–1||[[AFC Bournemouth]]||12 December 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[AFC Bournemouth]]'''''||''2–1''||''[[Dorchester Town]]''||15 December 1981
|-
|7||[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]||1–1||[[Barking F.C.|Barking]] (6)||15 December 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]'''''||''3–1''||''[[Barking F.C.|Barking]]''||2 January 1982
|-
|8||[[Crewe Alexandra]]||1–3||'''[[Scunthorpe United]]'''||2 January 1982
|-
|9||'''[[Swindon Town]]'''||2–1||[[Sutton United]] (6)||15 December 1981
|-
|10||'''[[Doncaster Rovers]]'''||3–0||[[Penrith F.C.|Penrith]] (8)||12 December 1981
|-
|11||[[Brentford F.C.|Brentford]]||1–1||[[Colchester United]]||16 December 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Colchester United]]'''''||''1–0''||''[[Brentford F.C.|Brentford]]''||30 December 1981
|-
|12||'''[[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]]'''||2–0||[[Hartlepool United]]||4 January 1982
|-
|13||'''[[Carlisle United]]'''||1–0||[[Bishop Auckland F.C.|Bishop Auckland]] (8)||9 January 1982
|-
|14||'''[[Port Vale F.C.|Port Vale]]'''||4–1||[[Stockport County]]||2 January 1982
|-
|15||[[York City]]||0–0||[[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]] (5)||12 December 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]]'''''||''4–3''||''[[York City]]''||2 January 1982
|-
|16||'''[[Hereford United]]'''||1–0||[[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]]||2 January 1982
|-
|17||[[Kettering Town]] (5)||0–3||'''[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]'''||2 January 1982
|-
|18||[[Aldershot F.C.|Aldershot]]||2–2||[[Oxford United]]||15 December 1981
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Oxford United]]'''''||''4–2''||''[[Aldershot F.C.|Aldershot]]''||30 December 1981
|-
|19||'''[[Peterborough United]]'''||2–1||[[Walsall F.C.|Walsall]]||2 January 1982
|-
|20||[[Dagenham F.C.|Dagenham]] (5)||1–2||'''[[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]]'''||30 December 1981
|}

==Third round proper==

Teams from the [[Football League First Division|Football League First]] and [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] entered in this round. The Third Round was intended to be played on 2 January 1982. However, some matched were played initially over the period 4–6 January, while others took place as late as 23 January. Most replays took place over 18–21 January. [[Enfield F.C.|Enfield]], [[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]] and [[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]] from the [[1981–82 Alliance Premier League|Alliance Premier League]] at Step 5 of the English football system were the lowest-ranked teams in the round and the last non-league clubs left in the competition.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!Tie no
!Home team
!Score
!Away team
!Date
|-
|1||[[Enfield F.C.|Enfield]] (5)||2–3||'''[[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]]''' (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|2||[[AFC Bournemouth]] (4)||0–2||'''[[Oxford United]]''' (3)||2 January 1982
|-
|3||[[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]] (5)||0–0||[[Brighton & Hove Albion]] (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Brighton & Hove Albion]]'''''||''3–1''||''[[Barnet F.C.|Barnet]]''||5 January 1982
|-
|4||'''[[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]''' (3)||6–1||[[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]] (5)||18 January 1982
|-
|5||'''[[Watford F.C.|Watford]]''' (2)||1–0||[[Manchester United]] (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|6||'''[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]''' (3)||2–1||[[Oldham Athletic]] (2)||5 January 1982
|-
|7||'''[[Leicester City]]''' (2)||3–1||[[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|8||[[Notts County]] (1)||0–6||'''[[Aston Villa]]''' (1)||5 January 1982
|-
|9||[[Nottingham Forest]] (1)||1–3||'''[[Wrexham F.C.|Wrexham]]''' (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|10||'''[[Bolton Wanderers]]''' (2)||3–1||[[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|11||[[Wolverhampton Wanderers]] (1)||1–3||'''[[Leeds United]]''' (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|12||'''[[West Bromwich Albion]]''' (1)||3–2||[[Blackburn Rovers]] (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|13||'''[[Luton Town]]''' (2)||2–1||[[Swindon Town]] (3)||2 January 1982
|-
|14||'''[[Shrewsbury Town]]''' (2)||1–0||[[Port Vale F.C.|Port Vale]] (4)||5 January 1982
|-
|15||'''[[Doncaster Rovers]]''' (3)||2–1||[[Cambridge United]] (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|16||[[Newcastle United]] (2)||1–1||[[Colchester United]] (4)||4 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Colchester United]]''||''3–4''||'''''[[Newcastle United]]'''''||18 January 1982
|-
|17||'''[[Tottenham Hotspur]]''' (1)||1–0||[[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|18||'''[[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]''' (1)||3–1||[[Cardiff City]] (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|19||[[Queens Park Rangers]] (2)||1–1||[[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]] (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]]''||''2–3''||'''''[[Queens Park Rangers]]'''''||18 January 1982
|-
|20||[[Barnsley F.C.|Barnsley]] (2)||0–2||'''[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]''' (4)||5 January 1982
|-
|21||'''[[Coventry City]]''' (1)||3–1||[[Sheffield Wednesday]] (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|22||'''[[West Ham United]]''' (1)||2–1||[[Everton F.C.|Everton]] (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|23||[[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]] (3)||1–6||'''[[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]]''' (2)||5 January 1982
|-
|24||[[Carlisle United]] (3)||2–3||'''[[Huddersfield Town]]''' (3)||23 January 1982
|-
|25||[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] (2)||0–0||[[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]] (4)||18 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]]''||''0–2''||'''''[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]'''''||21 January 1982
|-
|26||[[Scunthorpe United]] (4)||1–1||[[Hereford United]] (4)||6 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Hereford United]]'''''||''4–1''||''[[Scunthorpe United]]''||20 January 1982
|-
|27||[[Stoke City]] (1)||0–1||'''[[Norwich City]]''' (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|28||[[Rotherham United]] (2)||1–1||[[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]'''''||''1–0''||''[[Rotherham United]]''||18 January 1982
|-
|29||[[Peterborough United]] (4)||0–1||'''[[Bristol City]]''' (3)||6 January 1982
|-
|30||[[Birmingham City]] (1)||2–3||'''[[Ipswich Town]]''' (1)||2 January 1982
|-
|31||'''[[Leyton Orient|Orient]]''' (2)||1–0||[[Charlton Athletic F.C.|Charlton Athletic]] (2)||2 January 1982
|-
|32||[[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]] (1)||0–4||'''[[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]''' (1)||2 January 1982
|}

==Fourth round proper==

The Fourth Round was mainly played on 23 January 1982. Matches were played or replayed either on 26 January, or on 1 February. Fourth Division sides Blackpool and Hereford United were the lowest-ranked teams in the round.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!Tie no
!Home team
!Score
!Away team
!Date
|-
|1||[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]||0–0||[[Queens Park Rangers]]||23 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Queens Park Rangers]]'''''||''5–1''||''[[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]]''||26 January 1982
|-
|2||[[Bristol City]]||0–1||'''[[Aston Villa]]'''||23 January 1982
|-
|3||'''[[Watford F.C.|Watford]]'''||2–0||[[West Ham United]]||23 January 1982
|-
|4||[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]||0–1||'''[[West Bromwich Albion]]'''||23 January 1982
|-
|5||[[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]||0–3||'''[[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]'''||23 January 1982
|-
|6||[[Luton Town]]||0–3||'''[[Ipswich Town]]'''||23 January 1982
|-
|7||'''[[Shrewsbury Town]]'''||1–0||[[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]||23 January 1982
|-
|8||[[Newcastle United]]||1–2||'''[[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]]'''||23 January 1982
|-
|9||'''[[Tottenham Hotspur]]'''||1–0||[[Leeds United]]||23 January 1982
|-
|10||[[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]||1–3||'''[[Coventry City]]'''||23 January 1982
|-
|11||[[Brighton & Hove Albion]]||0–3||'''[[Oxford United]]'''||23 January 1982
|-
|12||'''[[Norwich City]]'''||2–1||[[Doncaster Rovers]]||23 January 1982
|-
|13||'''[[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]]'''||1–0||[[Bolton Wanderers]]||23 January 1982
|-
|14||[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]||0–0||[[Wrexham F.C.|Wrexham]]||23 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Wrexham F.C.|Wrexham]]''||''1–1''||''[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]''||26 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Wrexham F.C.|Wrexham]]''||''1–2''||'''''[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]'''''||1 February 1982
|-
|15||[[Huddersfield Town]]||1–1||[[Leyton Orient|Orient]]||26 January 1982
|-
|''Replay''||'''''[[Leyton Orient|Orient]]'''''||''2–0''||''[[Huddersfield Town]]''||1 February 1982
|-
|16||[[Hereford United]]||0–1||'''[[Leicester City]]'''||23 January 1982
|}

==Fifth round proper==

The Fifth Round matches were all played on 13 February 1982. The only replay was played on 16 February. Third Division side Oxford United was the lowest-ranked team in the round and was the last club from the First Round left in the competition.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!Tie no
!Home team
!Score
!Away team
!Date
|-
|1||'''[[Leicester City]]'''||2–0||[[Watford F.C.|Watford]]||13 February 1982
|-
|2||'''[[West Bromwich Albion]]'''||1–0||[[Norwich City]]||13 February 1982
|-
|3||'''[[Shrewsbury Town]]'''||2–1||[[Ipswich Town]]||13 February 1982
|-
|4||'''[[Tottenham Hotspur]]'''||1–0||[[Aston Villa]]||13 February 1982
|-
|5||'''[[Queens Park Rangers]]'''||3–1||[[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]]||13 February 1982
|-
|6||'''[[Coventry City]]'''||4–0||[[Oxford United]]||13 February 1982
|-
|7||[[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]]||0–0||[[Leyton Orient|Orient]]||13 February 1982
|-
|''Replay''||''[[Leyton Orient|Orient]]''||''0–1''||'''''[[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]]'''''||16 February 1982
|-
|8||'''[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]'''||2–0||[[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]||13 February 1982
|}

==Sixth round proper==

The sixth-round games were played on 6 March 1982. There were no replays.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!Tie no
!Home team
!Score
!Away team
!Date
|-
|1||'''[[Leicester City]]'''||5–2||[[Shrewsbury Town]]||6 March 1982
|-
|2||'''[[West Bromwich Albion]]'''||2–0||[[Coventry City]]||6 March 1982
|-
|3||'''[[Queens Park Rangers]]'''||1–0||[[Crystal Palace F.C.|Crystal Palace]]||6 March 1982
|-
|4||[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]||2–3||'''[[Tottenham Hotspur]]'''||6 March 1982
|}

==Semi-finals==

The matches were both played on 3 April 1982. Tottenham and Queens Park Rangers were victorious and reached the [[1982 FA Cup Final|FA Cup Final]].

{{football box
|date=3 April 1982
|time=15:00
|team1=[[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]]
|score=2–0
|report=
|team2=[[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]
|goals1=[[Garth Crooks|Crooks]] {{goal|56}} [[Ian Wilson (footballer born 1958)|Wilson]] {{goal|76|o.g.}}
|goals2=
|stadium=[[Villa Park]], [[Birmingham]]
|attendance=
|referee= }}Referee:- Neil Midgley (Salford)
----
{{football box
|date=3 April 1982
|time=15:00
|team1=[[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]]
|score=1–0
|report=
|team2=[[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]]
|goals1=[[Clive Allen|Allen]] {{goal}}
|goals2=
|stadium= [[Highbury Stadium]], [[London]]
|attendance=
|referee= }}Referee:- Keith Hackett (Sheffield)

==Final==

{{further|topic=this match|1982 FA Cup Final}}
The final was held at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]] on 22 May 1982. The replay was held on 27 May 1982.

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|time=15:00 [[Western European Summer Time|BST]]
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|score=1–1
|aet=yes
|report=
|team2=[[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]]
|goals1=[[Glenn Hoddle|Hoddle]] {{goal|110}}
|goals2=[[Terry Fenwick|Fenwick]] {{goal|115}}
|stadium=[[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]], [[London]]
|attendance=100,000
|referee=C. White}}
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|-
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|{{Football kit
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|}

===Replay===

{{football box
|date=27 May 1982
|time=19:45 [[Western European Summer Time|BST]]
|team1=[[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]]
|score=1–0
|report=
|team2=[[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]]
|goals1=[[Glenn Hoddle|Hoddle]] {{goal|6|pen.}}
|goals2=
|stadium=[[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]], [[London]]
|attendance=90,000
|referee=C. White}}
{| width=92% |
|-
|{{Football kit
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| pattern_b = _navyshoulders
| pattern_ra =
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| rightarm = FFFF33
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| title = Tottenham
}}
|{{Football kit
| pattern_la = _whiteshoulders
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| pattern_sh = _white_stripes
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}}
|}

==TV Coverage==
The right to show FA Cup games were, as with Football League matches, shared between the BBC and ITV network. All games were shown in a highlights format, except the Final, which was shown live both on BBC1 & ITV. The BBC football highlights programme Match of the Day would show up to three games and the various ITV regional network stations would cover up to one game and show highlights from other games covered elsewhere on the ITV network. No games from the first or second round were covered. Highlights of replays would be shown on either the BBC or ITV.

This Season BBC Match Of The Day Highlights were back on Saturday nights while the ITV regional Highlights programmes were back on Sunday afternoons in the third season of the 4 year alternation deal

*'''Third Round''' ''BBC'' Leicester City v Southampton, Barnet v Brighton & Hove Albion, Swansea City v Liverpool ''ITV'' Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal (LWT), Watford v Manchester United (Granada out of region, although used TVS cameras & commentator [[Gerald Sinstadt]]), Birmingham City v Ipswich Town (Central & Anglia), Rotherham United v Sunderland (Yorkshire & Tyne-Tees), Brighton & Hove Albion v Barnet (Midweek replay all regions), Notts County v Aston Villa (Midweek all regions)
* '''Fourth Round''' ''BBC'' Watford v West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United, Manchester City v Coventry City (Midweek Replays not televised due to both being on the Tuesday Night) ''ITV'' Luton Town v Ipswich Town (Anglia & LWT), Gillingham v West Bromwich Albion (TVS & Central), Sunderland v Liverpool (Tyne-Tees & Yorkshire), Blackpool v Queens Park Rangers (Granada). While Huddersfield v Orient (planned for Yorkshire and LWT) was postponed due to the delayed R3 tie Carlisle v Huddersfield having to be played on R4 day
*'''Fifth Round''' ''BBC'' Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa, Leicester City v Watford, West Bromwich Albion v Norwich City ''ITV'' Chelsea v Liverpool (LWT), Shrewsbury Town v Ipswich Town (Anglia out of region, although used Granada's cameras & commentator [[Martin Tyler]]), Coventry City v Oxford United (Central, also showed the Shrewsbury game) (Midweek Replay all regions) Orient v Crystal Palace (All Regions)
*'''Sixth Round''' ''BBC'' Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester City v Shrewsbury Town ''ITV'' QPR v Crystal Palace (LWT), West Bromwich Albion v Coventry City (Central) (All regions showed these games)
*'''Semifinals''' ''BBC'' Queens Park Rangers v West Bromwich Albion ''ITV'' Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur (All regions showed this game)
*'''Final''' Queens Park Rangers v Tottenham Hotspur (Both BBC & ITV showed the Final live. BBC & all ITV regions apart from Yorkshire showed the replay)

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/ The FA Cup] at TheFA.com
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/default.stm FA Cup] at BBC.co.uk
*[https://archive.today/20121204170310/http://football.uk.reuters.com/facup/ FA Cup news] at Reuters.co.uk

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