October Films
Industry | Independent film |
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Founded | 1991 |
Founder | Bingham Ray Jeff Lipsky |
Defunct | 1999 |
Fate | Sold to USA Networks and merged with Gramercy Pictures, Interscope Communications and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
Successor | USA Films Focus Features |
Parent | Universal Studios (1997–1999) |
Subsidiaries | Rogue Pictures |
October Films, Inc. was a major U.S. independent film production company[1] and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet.
A series of mergers and acquisitions began when Universal Studios (then a division of the Seagram Company) bought a majority stake in October Films in 1997.[2] Universal then sold its shares to Barry Diller in 1999, who renamed the company USA Films and merged it with Interscope Communications and Gramercy Pictures.[3] Vivendi then acquired USA Films, who in 2002 acquired Good Machine and merged it with USA Films, forming Focus Features.
Filmography
1990s
Release Date | Films | Notes |
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October 25, 1991 | Life Is Sweet | |
August 21, 1992 | The Living End | |
September 4, 1992 | The Tune | |
June 25, 1993 | Chain of Desire | |
October 8, 1993 | Ruby in Paradise | |
February 11, 1994 | The Cement Garden | |
March 30, 1994 | Cronos | |
May 6, 1994 | Kika | |
August 19, 1994 | Killing Zoe | |
October 26, 1994 | The Last Seduction | |
January 31, 1995 | The Silence of the Hams | |
May 5, 1995 | Search and Destroy | |
September 1, 1995 | Nadja | |
October 6, 1995 | The Addiction | |
November 10, 1995 | The Kingdom | |
November 17, 1995 | When Night Is Falling | |
December 7, 1995 | Man with a Gun | |
April 26, 1996 | Cemetery Man | |
May 10, 1996 | Someone Else's America | |
June 18, 1996 | Haunted | |
August 14, 1996 | Small Faces | |
August 21, 1996 | Girls Town | |
September 27, 1996 | Secrets & Lies | |
November 1, 1996 | The Funeral | |
November 13, 1996 | Breaking the Waves | |
February 21, 1997 | Lost Highway | |
April 18, 1997 | Traveller | |
April 25, 1997 | Female Perversions | |
August 8, 1997 | Career Girls | |
October 8, 1997 | Year of the Horse | |
November 14, 1997 | Kiss or Kill | |
February 20, 1998 | The Apostle | |
May 1, 1998 | Still Breathing | |
May 6, 1998 | The Kingdom II | |
June 12, 1998 | High Art | |
August 7, 1998 | Safe Men | |
August 1998 | The Naked Man | |
September 18, 1998 | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries | |
October 9, 1998 | The Celebration | |
January 15, 1999 | Hilary and Jackie | |
February 5, 1999 | The Last Days | |
April 2, 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | |
April 30, 1999 | Three Seasons | |
June 18, 1999 | The Phantom of the Opera | |
July 9, 1999 | Autumn Tale | |
August 27, 1999 | The Muse | |
September 10, 1999 | Black Cat, White Cat | distributed by USA Films |
September 17, 1999 | Sugar Town | distributed by USA Films |
September 24, 1999 | Lucie Aubrac | distributed by USA Films |
November 5, 1999 | Rosetta | distributed by USA Films |
December 15, 1999 | Topsy-Turvy | distributed by USA Films |
2000s
Release Date | Title | Notes |
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March 3, 2000 | Agnes Browne | distributed by USA Films |
March 10, 2000 | Condo Painting | distributed by USA Films |
April 28, 2000 | The Idiots | distributed by USA Films |
May 5, 2000 | Up at the Villa | distributed by USA Films |
May 26, 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | distributed by USA Films |
June 21, 2000 | Boricua's Bond | copyright holder; distributed by USA Films |
August 30, 2000 | Alice and Martin | distributed by USA Films |
October 20, 2000 | A Room for Romeo Brass | distributed by USA Films |
October 20, 2000 | Cherry Falls | copyright holder; distributed by USA Films |
March 2, 2001 | Series 7: The Contenders | copyright holder; distributed by USA Films |
April 27, 2001 | One Night at McCool's | distributed by USA Films |
June 8, 2001 | Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | distributed by USA Films |
August 10, 2001 | Session 9 | copyright holder; distributed by USA Films |
Distributor
- Rebro Adama (1990) (1992)
- Tous les matins du monde (1991) (1992)
- Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright (1992) (1993)
- Un coeur en hiver (1992) (1993)
- Bad Behaviour (1993)
- The War Room (1993)
- Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) (1996)
- Le Colonel Chabert (1994)
- Moving the Mountain (1994) (1995)
- Pao Da Shuang Deng (1994) (1995)
- Mécaniques célestes (1995) (1996)
- Badkonake sefid (White Balloon) (1995) (1996)
- Hollow Point (1996)
- Natural Enemy (1997)
- Kicked in the Head (1997)
- 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997) (1998)
- The Peacekeeper (1997)
- The Death Train (1998)
- Touch of Evil (1958) (1998)
- Thick as Thieves (1998)
- Il testimone dello sposo (1998) (1999)
- Conte d'automne (1998) (1999)
- Trippin' (1999)
- Detour (1999)
References
- ^ "Are the U.S.A.'s Independent Films a Distinct National Cinema?". TheFilmJournal.com. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
- ^ Eller, Claudia (1997-05-01). "Universal Says It Will Acquire October Films". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ^ "Interscope Communications". Audiovisual Identity Database. 2023-10-09. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
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