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October Films was a Flag of United States independent film production company and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet. It had no relationship to October Films in the United Kingdom, which is a prominent television production company founded in 1989 and which continues to thrive under this name(see www.octoberfilms.co.uk). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... An independent film, or indie film, is usually a low-budget film that is produced by a small movie studio. ... A Film distributor is an independent company, a subsidiary company or occasionally an individual, which acts as the final agent between a film production company or some intermediary agent, and a film exhibitor, to the end of securing placement of the producers film on the exhibitors screen. ... // April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael Noonan OKeefe in New York Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation is made. ... Life Is Sweet (1990) is a British film directed by Mike Leigh. ...


A series of mergers and acquisitions began when Universal Pictures (then a division of the Seagram Company) bought a majority stake in October Films in 1997. Universal then sold its shares to Barry Diller in 1999, who renamed the company USA Films and merged it with Gramercy Pictures, and USA Home Entertainment. Vivendi then acquired USA Films, who in 2002 acquired Good Machine and merged it with USA Films, forming Focus Features. also it replaced USA Films into October Films before 2008 and now has deals with Regency Enterprises,Touchstone Pictures,Intial Entertainment Group,The Weinstein Company,The Montecito Picture Company and 20th Century Fox. This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... The Seagram Company Ltd. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Barry Diller at the Web 2. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Focus Features (formerly known as USA Films and, in the beginning, Gramercy Pictures) is the speciality films division of Universal Pictures, a division of NBC Universal, the U.S.-based film, television and recreation entity of General Electric. ... Gramercy Pictures was a major film distributor. ... Vivendi SA (formerly known as Vivendi Universal) is a French media conglomerate with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet as well as video games. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2002. ... Good Machine is an independent film production and film distribution company started in the early 1990s by its co-founders and producers, Ted Hope and James Schamus. ... Focus Features is the art house films division of Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distrubutor for foreign films. ... Focus Features (formerly known as USA Films and, in the beginning, Gramercy Pictures) is the speciality films division of Universal Pictures, a division of NBC Universal, the U.S.-based film, television and recreation entity of General Electric. ... Regency Enterprises was formed in the early 80s. ... The current logo for Touchstone Pictures films since 2002 Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... The Weinstein Company is an independent American film studio founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein in 2005 after the pair left the Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...


Filmography

Distributor

  1. Rebro Adama (1990) (1992)
  2. Life Is Sweet (1990) (1991)
  3. Tous les matins du monde (1991) (1992)
  4. Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright (1992) (1993)
  5. Un coeur en hiver (1992) (1993)
  6. The Tune (1992)
  7. Ruby in Paradise (1993)
  8. Bad Behaviour (1993)
  9. The Cement Garden (1993) (1994)
  10. Cronos (1993) (1994)
  11. The War Room (1993)
  12. Kika (1993) (1994)
  13. Silenzio dei prosciutti, Il (1994)
  14. The Last Seduction (1994)
  15. Killing Zoe (1994)
  16. Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) (1996)
  17. Colonel Chabert, Le (1994)
  18. Nadja (1994) (1995)
  19. Moving the Mountain (1994) (1995)
  20. Riget (1994) (1995)
  21. Pao Da Shuang Deng (1994) (1995)
  22. Kuang ye sheng si lian (1995)
  23. Search and Destroy (1995)
  24. When Night Is Falling (1995)
  25. Mécaniques célestes (1995) (1996)
  26. Someone Else's America (1995) (1996)
  27. Badkonake sefid (White Balloon) (1995) (1996)
  28. The Addiction (1995)
  29. Haunted (1995)
  30. Girls Town (1996)
  31. Female Perversions (1996) (1997)
  32. Small Faces(1996)
  33. Breaking the Waves (1996)
  34. Secrets & Lies (1996)
  35. Hollow Point (1996)
  36. The Funeral (1996 movie) (1996)
  37. Natural Enemy (1997)
  38. Lost Highway (1997)
  39. Traveller (film) (1997)
  40. Kiss or Kill (1997)
  41. Year of the Horse (1997)
  42. Kicked in the Head (1997)
  43. Career Girls (1997)
  44. 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997) (1998)
  45. Still Breathing (1997)
  46. The Apostle (1997)
  47. Riget II (1997)
  48. High Art (1998)
  49. Thick as Thieves (1998)
  50. Testimone dello sposo, Il (1998) (1999)
  51. Festen (1998)
  52. Safe Men (1998)
  53. A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
  54. Hilary and Jackie (1998)
  55. Conte d'automne (1998) (1999)
  56. The Last Days (1998) (1999)
  57. Alice et Martin (1998)
  58. The Best Man (1999/II film) (1999/II)
  59. Cookie's Fortune (1999)
  60. Three Seasons (1999)
  61. Sugar Town (1999)
  62. Trippin' (1999)
  63. Agnes Browne (1999)
  64. The Muse (1999)
  65. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
  66. Detour (1999 film) (1999)
  67. Up at the Villa (2000)
  68. Cherry Falls (2000)
  69. Search and Destroy (1995)
  70. The Addiction (1995)
  71. Man with a Gun (1995/I)
  72. Haunted (1995)
  73. Breaking the Waves (1996)
  74. The Funeral (1996)
  75. Juedi fanji (1997)
  76. Lost Highway (1997)
  77. Lucie Aubrac (1997)
  78. High Art (1998)
  79. Idioterne (1998)
  80. The Naked Man (1998)
  81. Crna macka, beli macor (1998)
  82. Alice et Martin (1998)
  83. The Death Train (1998)
  84. Three Seasons (1999)
  85. Sugar Town (1999)
  86. Rosetta (1999)
  87. Agnes Browne (1999)
  88. The Muse (1999)
  89. Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
  90. Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs (1999)
  91. Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (2000)
  92. Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
  93. Condo Painting (2000)
  94. Up at the Villa (2000)
  95. Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000)
  96. Boricua's Bond (2000)
  97. Series 7: The Contenders (2001)
  98. One Night at McCool's (2001)
  99. Session 9 (2001)
  100. Cutting Trees (2008) (with 20th Century Fox)
  101. 15 Citys (2008) (with 20th Century Fox)
  102. The Plus (2008) (with 20th Century Fox)
  103. Enchanted Christmas Adventure (2008) (with 20th Century Fox)


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Dellamorte Dellamore (released as Cemetery Man in the USA and Of Love and Death in Australia) is a 1994 Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi. ... This article is about the novel by André Breton. ... The Kingdom (Danish title: Riget) is an eight-episode Danish television mini-series, created by Lars von Trier in 1994. ... When Night is Falling is a Canadian drama film, released in 1995. ... The White Balloon (Persian: , Badkonake sefid, 1995) is the debut feature film of Iranian director, Jafar Panahi, with a screenplay by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami . ... The Addiction is a 1995 film by Abel Ferrara, starring Lili Taylor and Christopher Walken. ... Girls Town was a 1959 film produced by MGM, starring Paul Anka and Mel Tormé. A juvenile delinquent is sent to a girls school run by nuns, where she finds herself unable to help her sister. ... Small Faces (1996) is a Scottish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon about gangs in 1960s Glasgow. ... Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, which tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries oil-man Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. ... Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British film which tells the story of a successful black woman who, while tracing her family history, discovers that her mother is a lower-class white woman (whose brother is a photographer married to a petty house-proud suburban woman). ... .357 Magnum rounds. ... The Funeral is a 1996 film directed by Abel Ferrara starring Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Annabella Sciorra, Isabella Rossellini, Vincent Gallo, Benicio Del Toro and Gretchen Mol. ... ... Lost Highway is a 1997 psychological thriller directed by David Lynch. ... Traveller is an American film released in 1997, starring Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, and Julianna Margulies. ... The greatest live concert movie ever ... Kicked in the Head were a ska punk band founded in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-1990s. ... Career Girls is a 1997 film by Mike Leigh which tells the story of two women, who reunite after six years apart. ... Still Breathing is 1998 feature film starring Brendan Fraser and Joanna Going. ... For the oldest animated feature film (from 1917), see El Apóstol. ... The opening title screen of Riget Riget (English title: The Kingdom) is a six-episode Danish television mini-series, created by Lars von Trier in 1994. ... High Art (1998) is an independent movie directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell. ... THICK AS THIEVES is the fourth album by Canadian rock band Trooper, released in 1978. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg. ... A Soldiers Daughter Never Cries is a French/US film directed by James Ivory and written by James Ivory & Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. ... Hilary and Jackie is a 1998 movie directed by Anand Tucker and written by acclaimed British screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, starring Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths as the sisters Jacqueline du Pré and Hilary du Pré. The movie is based on Hilary du Pres book about her sister Jacqueline. ... Conte dautomne (A Tale Of Autumn) is a 1998 French film, directed by Éric Rohmer, starring Béatrice Romand, Marie Rivière, Alain Libolt, Didier Sandre, Alexia Portal, Aurélia Alcaïs . ... The Last Days is an Academy Award winning documentary, directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor and Ken Lipper in 1998. ... Alice and Martin (French language Alice et Martin) is a 1998 French drama film by André Téchiné. It is his second collaboration with Juliette Binoche after the 1985 film Rendez-vous. ... Cookies Fortune is a 1999 comedy film directed by Robert Altman and starring an ensemble cast, including Patricia Neal, Charles Dutton, Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Liv Tyler and Chris ODonnell. ... Three Seasons (tiếng Việt: Ba Mùa) is an American Vietnamese language drama movie filmed in Vietnam about the past, present, and future of Saigon in the early days of New Vietnam. ... Sugar Town is a 1999 independent film written and directed by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, concerning a tangled web of characters coping with ambition, fame, and the aftermath of fame. ... For other uses, see Trippin (disambiguation). ... The Muse, successor to The Memorial Times, began publishing in 1950 as an unnamed paper. ... Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 film which tells the background story of the creation of The Mikado, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. ... Up at the Villa is a 1941 novella by William Somerset Maugham about a young widow caught between three men: her suitor, her one-night stand, and her confidant. ... Cherry Falls is a 2000 horror/thriller film written by Ken Selden and directed by Geoffrey Wright. ... The Addiction is a 1995 film by Abel Ferrara, starring Lili Taylor and Christopher Walken. ... Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, which tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries oil-man Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. ... A funeral is a ceremony marking a persons death. ... Lost Highway is a 1997 psychological thriller directed by David Lynch. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... High Art (1998) is an independent movie directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell. ... Idioterne (English: The Idiots), a 1998 film directed by Lars von Trier. ... Crna macka, beli macor (Black Cat, White Cat) is a comedy/romance movie directed by Emir Kusturica in 1998. ... Alice and Martin (French language Alice et Martin) is a 1998 French drama film by André Téchiné. It is his second collaboration with Juliette Binoche after the 1985 film Rendez-vous. ... Three Seasons (tiếng Việt: Ba Mùa) is an American Vietnamese language drama movie filmed in Vietnam about the past, present, and future of Saigon in the early days of New Vietnam. ... Sugar Town is a 1999 independent film written and directed by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, concerning a tangled web of characters coping with ambition, fame, and the aftermath of fame. ... Rosetta Rosetta is the anglicised name of the city of Rashid, a harbor on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt. ... The Muse, successor to The Memorial Times, began publishing in 1950 as an unnamed paper. ... Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? is a film written by Ben Steiner, directed by Peter Hewitt and released in 1999. ... Joe Goulds Secret is a 2000 film based on the 1965 book by Joseph Mitchell. ... Up at the Villa is a 1941 novella by William Somerset Maugham about a young widow caught between three men: her suitor, her one-night stand, and her confidant. ... Series 7: The Contenders is a 2001 film directed by Daniel Minahan. ... One Night at McCools is a 2001 dark comedy, directed by Harald Zwart and starring Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, and Liv Tyler. ... Session 9 is a 2001 psychological thriller/horror film directed by Brad Anderson. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...

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