Crown International Pictures (CIP) was an independent film studio and distribution company formed in 1959 by Newton P.

and The Seventh Commandment, by American producers, as well as foreign films such as First Spaceship on Venus and Varan the Unbelievable (released as a double feature in 1962) which Crown was able to acquire inexpensively, due to the US dollar's strength.

[3] He said that Crown did not want to be regarded as a mini major studio but as the top of the independents, to give the company more freedom in selecting and exploiting its film library.

You can't lift a picture very high if the handle is weak"[6] Crown also acted as importer for Sonny Chiba's Street Fighter films to the United States.

[9] In July 1988, Jacobs died in a motorcycle accident, which resulted in his son, Louis, taking the helm of Crown International.

Most of the television rights to Crown's library are today owned by Lionsgate via their 2005 acquisition of Modern Entertainment.