Editing October Films

{{Short description|Former independent film production company}}
{{About-distinguish2|the defunct American independent film production company|the currently-trading London and New York-based television production company October Films Limited and its subsidiary, October Films Inc.}}
{{Infobox company
| name = October Films, Inc.
| logo = October Films logo.svg
| caption = 
| trading_name = 
| fate = Sold to [[USA Network]]s and merged with [[Gramercy Pictures]], [[Interscope Communications]] and [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]]
| successor = USA Films<br>[[Focus Features]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1991}}
| founder = [[Bingham Ray]]<br>[[Jeff Lipsky (filmmaker)|Jeff Lipsky]]
| defunct = {{end date and age|1999}}
| location = 
| location_city = [[Beverly Hills, California]]
| location_country = United States
| locations = 
| industry = [[Independent film]]
| key_people = 
| products = 
| num_employees = 
| owner = 
| parent = [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] (1997–1999)
| subsid = [[Rogue Pictures]]
}}

'''October Films, Inc.''' was a major U.S. [[independent film]] production company<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue6/americancinema.html |title=Are the U.S.A.'s Independent Films a Distinct National Cinema? |publisher=TheFilmJournal.com |access-date=2013-08-12}}</ref> and [[film distributor|distributor]] founded in 1991 by [[Bingham Ray]] and [[Jeff Lipsky (filmmaker)|Jeff Lipsky]] as a means of distributing the 1990 film ''[[Life Is Sweet (film)|Life Is Sweet]]''.

A series of [[mergers and acquisitions]] began when [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] (then a division of the [[Seagram Company]]) bought a majority stake in October Films in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|last=Eller|first=Claudia |date=1997-05-01|title=Universal Says It Will Acquire October Films|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-01-fi-54134-story.html|access-date=2021-03-26|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> In 1999, Universal sold its shares to [[Barry Diller]], who renamed the company [[USA Films]] and merged it with [[Interscope Communications]] and [[Gramercy Pictures]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-09 |title=Interscope Communications |url=https://www.avid.wiki/Interscope_Communications |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=Audiovisual Identity Database |language=en}}</ref> [[Vivendi]] then acquired USA Films, which acquired [[Good Machine]] in 2002 and merged it with USA Films, forming [[Focus Features]].

==Filmography==
===1990s===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Release Date
! Films
! Notes
|-
| align="right"| October 25, 1991 || ''[[Life Is Sweet (film)|Life Is Sweet]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| August 21, 1992 || ''[[The Living End (film)|The Living End]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| September 4, 1992 || ''[[The Tune]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| June 25, 1993 || ''[[Chain of Desire]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| October 8, 1993 || ''[[Ruby in Paradise]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| February 11, 1994 || ''[[The Cement Garden (film)|The Cement Garden]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| March 30, 1994 || ''[[Cronos (film)|Cronos]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| May 6, 1994 || ''[[Kika (1993 film)|Kika]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| August 19, 1994 || ''[[Killing Zoe]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| October 26, 1994 || ''[[The Last Seduction]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| January 31, 1995 || ''[[The Silence of the Hams]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| May 5, 1995 || ''[[Search and Destroy (1995 film)|Search and Destroy]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| September 1, 1995 || ''[[Nadja (film)|Nadja]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| October 6, 1995 || ''[[The Addiction]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| November 10, 1995 || ''[[Riget|The Kingdom]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| November 17, 1995 || ''[[When Night Is Falling]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| December 7, 1995 || ''[[Man with a Gun (1995 film)|Man with a Gun]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| April 26, 1996 || ''[[Cemetery Man]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| May 10, 1996 || ''[[Someone Else's America]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| June 18, 1996 || ''[[Haunted (1995 film)|Haunted]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| August 14, 1996 || ''[[Small Faces (film)|Small Faces]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| August 21, 1996 || ''[[Girls Town (1996 film)|Girls Town]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| September 27, 1996 || ''[[Secrets & Lies (film)|Secrets & Lies]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| November 1, 1996 || ''[[The Funeral (1996 film)|The Funeral]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| November 13, 1996 || ''[[Breaking the Waves]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| February 21, 1997 || ''[[Lost Highway (film)|Lost Highway]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| April 18, 1997 || ''[[Traveller (1997 film)|Traveller]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| April 25, 1997 || ''[[Female Perversions]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| August 8, 1997 || ''[[Career Girls]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| October 8, 1997 || ''[[Year of the Horse]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| November 14, 1997 || ''[[Kiss or Kill (1997 film)|Kiss or Kill]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| February 20, 1998 || ''[[The Apostle]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| May 1, 1998 || ''[[Still Breathing (film)|Still Breathing]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| May 6, 1998 || ''[[Riget|The Kingdom II]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| June 12, 1998 || ''[[High Art]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| August 7, 1998 || ''[[Safe Men]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| August 1998 || ''[[The Naked Man (1998 film)|The Naked Man]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| September 18, 1998 || ''[[A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (film)|A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| October 9, 1998 || ''[[Festen|The Celebration]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| January 15, 1999 || ''[[Hilary and Jackie]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| February 5, 1999 || ''[[The Last Days]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| April 2, 1999 || ''[[Cookie's Fortune]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| April 30, 1999 || ''[[Three Seasons]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| June 18, 1999 || ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1998 film)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| July 9, 1999 || ''[[Autumn Tale]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| August 27, 1999 || ''[[The Muse (1999 film)|The Muse]]'' ||
|-
| align="right"| September 10, 1999 || ''[[Black Cat, White Cat]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| September 17, 1999 || ''[[Sugar Town (film)|Sugar Town]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| September 24, 1999 || ''[[Lucie Aubrac (film)|Lucie Aubrac]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| November 5, 1999 || ''[[Rosetta (film)|Rosetta]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| December 15, 1999 || ''[[Topsy-Turvy]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|}

===2000s===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Release Date
! Title
! Notes
|-
| align="right"| March 3, 2000 || ''[[Agnes Browne]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| March 10, 2000 || ''[[Condo Painting]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| April 28, 2000 || ''[[The Idiots]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| May 5, 2000 || ''[[Up at the Villa (film)|Up at the Villa]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| May 26, 2000 || ''[[Joe Gould's Secret (film)|Joe Gould's Secret]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| June 21, 2000 || ''[[Boricua's Bond]]'' || copyright holder; distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| August 30, 2000 || ''[[Alice and Martin]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| October 20, 2000 || ''[[A Room for Romeo Brass]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| October 20, 2000 || ''[[Cherry Falls]]'' || copyright holder; distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| March 2, 2001 || ''[[Series 7: The Contenders]]'' || copyright holder; distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| April 27, 2001 || ''[[One Night at McCool's]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| June 8, 2001 || ''[[Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?]]'' || distributed by USA Films
|-
| align="right"| August 10, 2001 || ''[[Session 9]]'' || copyright holder; distributed by USA Films
|}

===Distributor===
* ''Rebro Adama'' (1990) (1992)
* ''[[Tous les matins du monde (film)|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 film)|Bad Behaviour]]'' (1993)
* ''[[The War Room]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Dellamorte Dellamore]]'' (1994) (1996)
* ''[[Le Colonel Chabert (1994 film)|Le Colonel Chabert]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Moving the Mountain (1993 film)|Moving the Mountain]]'' (1994) (1995)
* ''[[Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker|Pao Da Shuang Deng]]'' (1994) (1995)
* ''Mécaniques célestes'' (1995) (1996)
* ''[[Badkonake sefid]] (White Balloon)'' (1995) (1996)
* ''[[Hollow Point]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Natural Enemy (film)|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 film)|Thick as Thieves]]'' (1998)
* ''[[Il testimone dello sposo]]'' (1998) (1999)
* ''[[Conte d'automne]]'' (1998) (1999)
* ''[[Trippin' (film)|Trippin']]'' (1999)
* ''Detour'' (1999)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.imdb.com/company/co0017323/ October Films at IMDb]
* [https://www.focusfeatures.com/ Focus Features]
* [https://octoberfilms.co.uk/ October Films UK]

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[[Category:Film distributors of the United States]]
[[Category:Film production companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Mass media companies established in 1991]]
[[Category:1991 establishments in the United States]]
[[Category:American independent film studios]]
[[Category:Universal Pictures]]
[[Category:Companies based in Beverly Hills, California]]


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