Vestron Pictures

Vestron Pictures is an American film studio and distributor, and a former division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing.

The company was a spin-off of the earlier video distributor, Vestron Video. Vestron also had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures, a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video.

Vestron Pictures' parent company Vestron, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy went out of business in 1991, with their assets being acquired by LIVE Entertainment. Today, Lionsgate owns the rights to the Vestron library after acquiring Artisan Entertainment in 2003.