 In August 1983, the company had indicated that they would be into production of its own material by late 1984 or early 1985.However, Orion Pictures was having more box office failures then successes thus those plans were put on hold.In late 1991, when Orion Pictures was in serious financial trouble, Barker, Bernard, and Bloom left Orion Classics, taking the rights to the highly anticipated Merchant Ivory Productions adaptation of "Howards End" with them; at the invitation of former Orion president Mike Medavoy, who was now relocated at TriStar Pictures, the three set up Sony Pictures Classics, with "Howards End" as the company's first release.