October Films, Inc. was a major U.S.

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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. In 1999, Universal sold its shares to

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, 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)

References

External links

October Films at IMDb

Focus Features

October Films UK
Film distributors of the United States Film production companies of the United States Mass media companies established in 1991 1991 establishments in the United States American independent film studios Universal Pictures Companies based in Beverly Hills, California {{US-film-company-stub