The spherical Geffen Pictures logo, based on the logo of its record-label counterpart, was created by Saul Bass.

Their most famous films are Risky Business (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Beetlejuice (1988) and its 2024 sequel, and Interview with the Vampire (1994).

Geffen founded the company in 1982,[1] having recruited Eric Eisner as president,[2] and distributed its films through Warner Bros.[3] Geffen was operated as a division of Warner Bros. As a result, following the company's shutdown in 1998, Warner Bros. now owns the company's library, with the exception of the 1996 Mike Judge comedy Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, which is owned by Paramount Pictures through MTV Entertainment Studios and The Geffen Company.

In 1993, Geffen and MTV Productions struck a two-picture deal.

[5] The Geffen Pictures brand continued to be used on films by David Geffen until 1998, when it was folded into Warner Bros., who later revived the brand for the 2024 release of the Beetlejuice sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.