Allied Artists International, Inc. (AAI) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment corporation headquartered in Glendale, California, United States, producing and distributing motion pictures, recorded music, broadcast television, online streaming, video games, and other media products.

[8] Producer Walter Mirisch began at Monogram Pictures after World War II as assistant to studio head Samuel "Steve" Broidy.

[11] The studio's new policy permitted what Mirisch called "B-plus" pictures, which were released along with Monogram's established line of B fare.

They pushed the studio into big-budget filmmaking, signing contracts with William Wyler, John Huston, Billy Wilder and Gary Cooper.

[16] But when their first big-name productions, Wyler's Friendly Persuasion and Wilder's Love in the Afternoon were box-office flops in 1956–57, studio-head Broidy retreated into the kind of pictures Monogram had always favored: low-budget action and thrillers.

Both were critical and commercial successes, but high production and financing costs meant they were not big money makers for Allied.

In 1975 Allied distributed the French import film version of Story of O but spent much of its earnings defending itself from obscenity charges.

[19] Allied Artists Pictures became insolvent in 1979 as a result of runaway inflation and high production costs, forcing it to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Today, a majority of the Lorimar library, including those acquired from Allied Artists Pictures, belongs to Warner Bros.

Allied Artists Records' historical roster and catalog includes Exodus, Coolio, Luis Cardenas, David Hasselhoff and Renegade.