Beacon Pictures (aka Beacon Communications, LLC) is an American film production and international sales company founded in 1990 by Armyan Bernstein, who is also its chairman. The company produces motion pictures for studios such as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 1996, it struck a first look deal with Universal. Beacon was acquired in 1994 by COMSAT, who a year later put the company under its Ascent Entertainment Group division. By early 1999, Ascent was about to be broken up due to financial problems, mostly stemming from building the Pepsi Center in Denver. Bernstein and venture capitalist Kevin O Donnell, son of Kennedy Administration Kenny O'Donnell, purchased Beacon back, restoring its independent company status. Films The Commitments (1991) With 20th Century Fox A Midnight Clear (1992) With InterStar Releasing and A&M Films A Life in the Theatre (1993) With TNT Sugar Hill (1993) With 20th Century Fox Princess Caraboo (1994) With TriStar Pictures The Road to Wellville (1994) With Columbia Pictures The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) With Columbia Pictures and Scholastic The Van (1996) With Fox Searchlight Pictures and BBC Films Air Force One (1997) With Columbia Pictures and Touchstone Pictures A Thousand Acres (1997) With Touchstone Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Propaganda Films Playing God (1997) With Touchstone Pictures Disturbing Behavior (1998) With Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hoyts Distribution and Village Roadshow Pictures Trippin' (1999) With Rogue Pictures For Love of the Game (1999) With Universal Pictures, Tig Productions and Mirage Enterprises The Hurricane (1999) With Universal Pictures End of Days (1999) With Universal Pictures Duets (2000) With Hollywood Pictures and Seven Arts Pictures The Family Man (2000) With Universal Pictures and Saturn Films Bring It On (2000) With Universal Pictures Thirteen Days (2000) With New Line Cinema Spy Game (2001) With Universal Pictures, Kalima Productions Gmbh & Co. kg, Red Wagon Entertainment and Toho-Towa Tuck Everlasting (2002) With Walt Disney Pictures and Scholastic The Emperor's Club (2002) With Universal Pictures, Fine Line Features and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Open Range (2003) With Touchstone Pictures and Tig Productions Ladder 49 (2004) With Touchstone Pictures and Casey Silver Productions Bring It On Again (2004) With Universal Pictures Raising Helen (2004) With Touchstone Pictures, Mandeville Films and Hyde Park Entertainment A Lot like Love (2005) With Touchstone Pictures Bring it on: All or Nothing (2006) With Universal Pictures Firewall (2006) With Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and Thunder Road