319:, allowing for North American distribution of De Laurentiis' new product. Dino De Laurentiis continued to pre-sell his films for overseas distribution, as he had done in the past. In May 1986, De Laurentiis took DEG public, raising $ 240 million in the process. The following month, DEG's first slate of films were released. In 1986, De Laurentiis formed an Australian subsidiary, De Laurentiis Entertainment Limited (DEL), which built a studio on the
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360:. Around the same time, De Laurentiis' daughter Raffaella exited her role as DEG's president of production. In 1988, Dino De Laurentiis, who founded the company quit the studio amidst the failures of such films and formed a successor company Dino de Laurentiis Communications.
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317:The Coca-Cola Company
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519:Radioactive Dreams
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207:Dino De Laurentiis
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