[1][2] The film company was established in 1946 by the late Dr. Ciriaco Santiago and his wife Adela Hermoso as Premiere Productions.
[3] Among its homegrown talents were Nena Cardenas, Anita Linda, Virginia Montes, Rosita Noble, Edna Luna, Gloria Sevilla, Carol Varga, Corazon Rivas, Olivia Cenizal (initially known as Gloria Cenizal), Cielito Legaspi, Shirley Gorospe, Celia Rodriguez, Rosemarie Gil, Efren Reyes Sr., Fernando Poe Jr., Carlos Padilla Jr., Johnny Monteiro, Jose Romulo, Zaldy Zshornack and Eddie Fernandez.
[4] Premiere became known in the action genre with movies headlined by Efren Reyes, Jose Padilla Jr., Fernando Poe Jr., Bob Soler, and Eddie Fernandez.
[6] In 1972, Santiago's daughter Digna took over the film company's operations produced award-winning and blockbuster movies like Ang Uliran (1971), which won as Best Drama, and Postcards from China (1975).
[7] Among its films produced at that time were Aringkingking (1996), which was an entry in the 1996 Metro Manila Film Festival; the remake of Anak ng Bulkan (1997), which was inspired by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo;[8] a Ruben Torres biopic Kadre (1997); Ama Namin (1998) and Operation Balikatan (2003).