Cinema International Corporation (CIC) was created July 1, 1971, incorporated in the Netherlands for tax purposes, but with its head office in London.

[5] This had a secondary effect of supporting Paramount and Universal in expanding beyond their singular association in South Africa with Ster.

[3]: 168  Beyond distribution, CIC had ventures with MGM and Warner Bros. International (CIC-MGM and CIC-Warner) for the operation of cinemas outside the United States.

In 1981, MGM purchased United Artists, but could not drop out of the CIC venture to merge with UA's overseas operations.

CIC also served as the theatrical distributor of Disney films in some territories such as Italy, Brazil and West Germany during the 1970s to mid-1980s, when it changed its corporate name to UIP.

In April 2012, Friedkin sued the studios to discover who owned the domestic theatrical rights and to capture any royalty payments from VHS and DVD releases.

[12] However, it was exactly that month that Friedkin revealed that he had dropped his lawsuit against Universal and Paramount, and that he and a "major studio" (which was later revealed as Warner Bros.) were involved in the creation of a new, recolored digital print of Sorcerer, to be screened at the Venice Film Festival and to receive a Blu-ray release: We're working off the original negative, which is in pretty good shape, but without changing the original concept we have to bring it back in terms of color saturation, sharpness and all the stuff... [The film's] been in a legal whirlpool for 30 or 35 years.