Crown Seven Ventures was a Philippine film production company owned by Jesse Ejercito.

History

The film company was established in 1975 by Jesse Ejercito as Crown Seven Film Productions with ''Mister Mo, Lover Boy Ko'' as its maiden movie. In 1977, it changed its name to Seven Stars Productions. It launched the careers of

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and

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, among others. In 1983, Seven Stars closed down after ''

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'', which was an entry to the

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, where it won Best Screenplay award. A couple of years later, Ejercito returned to producing several films for various film companies. He also run the short-lived Merdeka Film Productions with Edmer Lim from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, Ejercito, along with Wilson Tieng of

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, revived the film company as Crown Seven Ventures with ''Kasal-kasalan'' as its comeback movie, an entry to the

1998 Metro Manila Film Festival The 24th Metro Manila Film Festival was held in 1998. It was a clean sweep for ''José Rizal'' in the 1998 Metro Manila Film Festival. The movie won all but one of the eighteen awards at stake, which is the Best Actress given to Alice Dixson fo ...

. The following year, it released ''Sidhi'', which won five awards at the 2000 FAMAS Awards, including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Story. It followed with a remake of ''Mister Mo, Lover Ko''. Among its homegrown talents were

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, Priscilla Almeda, Janna Victoria and

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. In January 2001, amid the impeachment of then President Joseph Estrada, Crown Seven closed down for good, leaving its talents affected. ''Gatas: Sa Dibdib ng Kaaway'' was its last film produced.

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currently owns Crown Seven's film library.

References

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