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Former independent film production company
This article is about the defunct American independent film production company. It is not to be confused with the currently-trading London and New York-based television production company October Films Limited and its subsidiary, October Films Inc..
October Films
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 Pictures
(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
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1990s
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Release Date
|
Films
|
Notes
|
October 25, 1991
|
Life Is Sweet
|
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August 21, 1992
|
The Living End
|
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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
|
|
September 17, 1999
|
Sugar Town
|
|
September 24, 1999
|
Lucie Aubrac
|
|
November 5, 1999
|
Rosetta
|
|
December 15, 1999
|
Topsy-Turvy
|
distributed by USA Films
|
2000s
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Release Date
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Title
|
Notes
|
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
|
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
|
distributed by USA Films
|
December 27, 2000
|
Traffic
|
distributed by USA Films
|
March 2, 2001
|
Series 7: The Contenders
|
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
|
distributed by USA Films
|
November 2, 2001
|
The Man Who Wasn't There
|
distributed by USA Films
|
January 19, 2002
|
Gosford Park
|
distributed by USA Films
|
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