October Films, Inc. was an American 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 in the United States.

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 October, Interscope Communications, and Gramercy Pictures to Barry Diller, who merged the three companies to form USA Films. Vivendi then acquired USA Films, which acquired Good Machine in 2002 and merged it with USA Films and Universal Focus, forming Focus Features.

Filmography

1990s

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|-

! Release date

! Films

! Notes

|-

| align="right"| October 25, 1991 || Life Is Sweet ||

|-

| align="right"| May 8, 1992 || Adam's Rib ||

|-

| align="right"| August 21, 1992 || The Living End ||

|-

| align="right"| September 4, 1992 || The Tune ||

|-

| align="right"| November 13, 1992 || Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World)

|-

| align="right"| March 31, 1993 || Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright ||

|-

| align="right"| June 4, 1993 || Un coeur en hiver (A Heart in Winter) ||

|-

| align="right"| June 25, 1993 || Chain of Desire ||

|-

| align="right"| September 3, 1993 || Bad Behaviour ||

|-

| align="right"| October 8, 1993 || Ruby in Paradise ||

|-

| align="right"| November 3, 1993 || The War Room ||

|-

| align="right"| February 11, 1994 || The Cement Garden ||

|-

| align="right"| March 30, 1994 || Cronos ||

|-

| align="right"| May 6, 1994 || Kika ||

|-

| align="right"| August 19, 1994 || Killing Zoe ||

|-

| align="right"| October 26, 1994 || The Last Seduction ||

|-

| align="right"| December 23, 1994 || Colonel Chabert ||

|-

| align="right"| January 31, 1995 || The Silence of the Hams ||

|-

| align="right"| May 5, 1995 || Search and Destroy ||

|-

| align="right"| May 19, 1995 || Moving the Mountain ||

|-

| align="right"| June 2, 1995 || Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker ||

|-

| align="right"| September 1, 1995 || Nadja ||

|-

| align="right"| October 6, 1995 || The Addiction ||

|-

| align="right"| November 10, 1995 || The Kingdom ||

|-

| align="right"| November 17, 1995 || When Night Is Falling ||

|-

| align="right"| December 7, 1995 || Man with a Gun ||

|-

| align="right"| January 24, 1996 || The White Balloon ||

|-

| align="right"| April 26, 1996 || Cemetery Man ||

|-

| align="right"| May 2, 1996 || Celestial Clockwork ||

|-

| align="right"| May 10, 1996 || Someone Else's America ||

|-

| align="right"| June 18, 1996 || Haunted ||

|-

| align="right"| August 14, 1996 || Small Faces ||

|-

| align="right"| August 21, 1996 || Girls Town ||

|-

| align="right"| September 27, 1996 || Secrets & Lies ||

|-

| align="right"| October 22, 1996 || Hollow Point ||

|-

| align="right"| November 1, 1996 || The Funeral ||

|-

| align="right"| November 13, 1996 || Breaking the Waves ||

|-

| align="right"| January 10, 1997 || Natural Enemy ||

|-

| align="right"| February 21, 1997 || Lost Highway ||

|-

| align="right"| April 18, 1997 || Traveller ||

|-

| align="right"| April 25, 1997 || Female Perversions ||

|-

| align="right"| August 8, 1997 || Career Girls ||

|-

| align="right"| September 26, 1997 || Kicked in the Head ||

|-

| align="right"| October 8, 1997 || Year of the Horse ||

|-

| align="right"| November 14, 1997 || Kiss or Kill ||

|-

| align="right"| December 12, 1997 || The Peacekeeper ||

|-

| align="right"| February 20, 1998 || The Apostle ||

|-

| align="right" rowspan="2"| May 1, 1998 || Still Breathing ||

|-

| TwentyFourSeven ||

|-

| align="right"| May 6, 1998 || The Kingdom II ||

|-

| align="right"| June 12, 1998 || High Art ||

|-

| align="right"| August 7, 1998 || Safe Men ||

|-

| align="right"| August 21, 1998 || The Best Man ||

|-

| align="right"| August 1998 || The Naked Man ||

|-

| align="right"| September 11, 1998 || Touch of Evil || 40th anniversary re-release

|-

| align="right"| September 18, 1998 || A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries ||

|-

| align="right"| October 9, 1998 || The Celebration ||

|-

| align="right"| October 23, 1998 || The Last Days ||

|-

| align="right"| November 8, 1998 || The Death Train ||

|-

| align="right"| December 30, 1998 || Hilary and Jackie ||

|-

| align="right"| January 28, 1999 || Thick as Thieves ||

|-

| align="right"| April 2, 1999 || Cookie's Fortune ||

|-

| align="right"| April 30, 1999 || Three Seasons ||

|-

| align="right"| May 12, 1999 || Trippin ||

|-

| align="right"| June 18, 1999 || The Phantom of the Opera ||

|-

| align="right"| July 9, 1999 || Autumn Tale ||

|-

| align="right"| August 27, 1999 || The Muse ||

|-

| align="right"| September 10, 1999 || Black Cat, White Cat || distributed by USA Films

|-

| align="right"| September 17, 1999 || Sugar Town || distributed by USA Films

|-

| align="right"| September 24, 1999 || Lucie Aubrac || distributed by USA Films

|-

| align="right"| October 5, 1999 || Detour || distributed by USA Home Entertainment

|-

| align="right"| November 5, 1999 || 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 || distributed by USA Films

|-

| align="right"| May 26, 2000 || 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

|}

References

  • October Films at IMDb
  • Focus Features
  • October Films UK