CIC Video was a home video

Home video

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 distributor, owned by Cinema International Corporation

Cinema International Corporation

Cinema International Corporation was a film distribution company started by Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios in the early 1970s to distribute the 2 studios' films outside the United States – it even operated in Canada before it was...

 (the forerunner of United International Pictures

United International Pictures

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), and operated in some countries (such as France

France

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, Germany

Germany

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, Norway

Norway

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, Sweden

Sweden

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, Australia

Australia

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 and the UK) by local operators. Outside of North America, it distributed films by Universal Studios

Universal Studios

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 (now owned by NBCUniversal) and Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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 (now owned by Viacom

Viacom

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), CIC's partners. DreamWorks

DreamWorks

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 films were added to the company output in 1998, as the fledgling studio had a worldwide video distribution deal with Universal.

In 1999, CIC Video was dissolved when Universal purchased PolyGram

PolyGram

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 and reorganized its video division under the Universal name. Paramount Home Entertainment

Paramount Home Entertainment

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 became CIC's successor.

Australia

CIC Video was operated in Australia

Australia

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 (where it was known as CIC-Taft Home Video) by the Taft

Taft Broadcasting

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-Hardie

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 joint venture (now Southern Star Group

Southern Star Group

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), and also distributed some Southern Star and Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera

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 product under other labels. The Hanna-Barbera library is now handled usually by Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video

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. The label's defunct subsidiary was a distributor called Rigby-CIC Video and CIC-Taft's label manufacturer was Roadshow Home Video

Roadshow Home Video

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.

Canada

CIC Video also operated in Canada as CIC-Alliance Atlantis Video, a joint venture with Alliance Atlantis

Alliance Atlantis

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. was a Toronto-based media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona, Shannon and Sydney.Alliance Atlantis was acquired by Canwest...

 distributing many titles by Alliance Atlantis including the Walt Disney library in the past. Alliance Films continues to have its video output distributed by Universal to this day. Their last film was South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.