October Films was a major U.S. independent film production company and

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founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film '' Life Is Sweet''. A series of

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began when

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(then a division of the Seagram Company) bought a majority stake in October Films in 1997.

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then sold its shares to

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in 1999, who renamed the company USA Films and merged it with Gramercy Pictures.

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then acquired USA Films, who in 2002 acquired

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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) * ''

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'' (1996) * '' Natural Enemy'' (1997) * '' Kicked in the Head'' (1997) * '' 24 7: Twenty Four Seven'' (1997) (1998) * ''

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'' (1997) * '' The Death Train'' (1998) * ''

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'' (1958) (1998) * '' Thick as Thieves'' (1998) * '' Testimone dello sposo, Il'' (1998) (1999) * ''

Conte d'automne ''Autumn Tale'' (french: Conte d'automne) is a 1998 French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer, starring Béatrice Romand, Marie Rivière, Didier Sandre, Alain Libolt, Alexia Portal, Stéphane Darmon and Aurélia Alca ...

'' (1998) (1999) * '' The Best Man (1999/II film)'' (1999/II) * ''

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'' (1999) * ''

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'' (1999)

References

External links

October Films at IMDb

Focus Features

October Films UK
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