G.G. Communications Explained

G.G. Communications
Location City:Boston, Massachusetts
Location Country:United States[1]
Key People:Nicholas W. Russo[2]
Industry:Film distribution
Owner:Independent

G.G. Communications or GG Productions was a film distributor based in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] Founded by city native Nicholas W. Russo (credited in releases as "N.W. Russo"),[1] [2] [3] it was responsible for the U.S. releases of various foreign films. The company was named after fisherman Gadabout Gaddis, for whom Russo had produced the successful documentary television series The Flying Fisherman.[2]

G.G.'s titles ranged from adult fare such as Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava's giallo films One on Top of the Other and Hatchet for the Honeymoon,[4] [5] to children's films such as the live-action Pippi Longstocking films,[6] Giuliano Cenci's The Adventures of Pinocchio, Rolf Kauka's Once Upon a Time,[3] and the 1975 anime feature based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.[2] In the early 1980s, several of its films were released on VHS through distributor Video Gems.[7]

Notes and References

  1. News: Marquee Staff. Theater district may lose patrons. August 25, 1975. The Boston Globe. 26. Everything's coming up G's for Nick Russo, the Park Square Disney: The headman of the Boston-based G.G. Communications, a movie distributing outfit....
  2. News: Nicholas W. Russo, 75, was TV producer. September 20, 1991. October 5, 2011. The Baltimore Sun. 7.C. December 10, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151210202555/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-09-20/news/1991263187_1_russo-nicholas-w-boston. dead.
  3. News: Matinee advertisement for Once Upon a Time. G.G. Communications. February 25, 1977. October 5, 2011. Daytona Beach Morning Journal. 4B.
  4. Book: Lucas, Tim . Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark . Video Watchdog . 2007 . 978-0-9633756-1-2. 778.
  5. One on Top of the Other: Lucio Fulci, Transnational Film Industries, and the Retrospective Construction of the Italian Horror Canon . Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 32. 1–20. Church . David . October 28, 2014 . 1 . 10.1080/10509208.2013.780935 . 191562040.
  6. Book: Something About the Author. Commire. Anne. Anne Commire. 38. 132. 978-0-8103-0071-2. 1985. October 5, 2011. Gale Research Company.
  7. Kid Stuff Clicks For 2-Year-Old Video Gems Company. Tiegel. Eliot. March 6, 1982. October 5, 2011. Billboard. 94. 9. 66.

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