October Films
October Films, Inc. was a major U.S. 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.
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. In 1999, Universal sold its shares to Barry Diller, who renamed the company USA Films and merged it with Interscope Communications and Gramercy Pictures. Vivendi then acquired USA Films, which acquired Good Machine in 2002 and merged it with USA Films, forming Focus Features.
Filmography
1990s
2000s
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)