| October Films, Inc. | |
| Fate: | Sold to USA Networks and merged with Gramercy Pictures, Interscope Communications and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
| Successor: | USA Films Focus Features |
| Founder: | Bingham Ray Jeff Lipsky |
| Industry: | Independent film |
| Parent: | Universal Studios (1997–1999) |
| Subsid: | Rogue Pictures |
October Films, Inc. was a major U.S. independent film production company[1] 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.[2] Universal then sold its shares to Barry Diller in 1999, who renamed the company USA Films and merged it with Interscope Communications and Gramercy Pictures.[3] Vivendi then acquired USA Films, who in 2002 acquired Good Machine and merged it with USA Films, forming Focus Features.
| Release Date | Films | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 25, 1991 | Life Is Sweet | ||
| August 21, 1992 | The Living End | ||
| September 4, 1992 | The Tune | ||
| June 25, 1993 | Chain of Desire | ||
| October 8, 1993 | Ruby in Paradise | ||
| February 11, 1994 | The Cement Garden | ||
| March 30, 1994 | Cronos | ||
| May 6, 1994 | Kika | ||
| August 19, 1994 | Killing Zoe | ||
| October 26, 1994 | The Last Seduction | ||
| January 31, 1995 | The Silence of the Hams | ||
| May 5, 1995 | Search and Destroy | ||
| September 1, 1995 | Nadja | ||
| October 6, 1995 | The Addiction | ||
| November 10, 1995 | The Kingdom | ||
| November 17, 1995 | When Night Is Falling | ||
| December 7, 1995 | Man with a Gun | ||
| April 26, 1996 | Cemetery Man | ||
| May 10, 1996 | Someone Else's America | ||
| June 18, 1996 | Haunted | ||
| August 14, 1996 | Small Faces | ||
| August 21, 1996 | Girls Town | ||
| September 27, 1996 | Secrets & Lies | ||
| November 1, 1996 | The Funeral | ||
| November 13, 1996 | Breaking the Waves | ||
| February 21, 1997 | Lost Highway | ||
| April 18, 1997 | Traveller | ||
| April 25, 1997 | Female Perversions | ||
| August 8, 1997 | Career Girls | ||
| October 8, 1997 | Year of the Horse | ||
| November 14, 1997 | Kiss or Kill | ||
| February 20, 1998 | The Apostle | ||
| May 1, 1998 | Still Breathing | ||
| May 6, 1998 | The Kingdom II | ||
| June 12, 1998 | High Art | ||
| August 7, 1998 | Safe Men | ||
| August 1998 | The Naked Man | ||
| September 18, 1998 | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries | ||
| October 9, 1998 | The Celebration | ||
| January 15, 1999 | Hilary and Jackie | ||
| February 5, 1999 | The Last Days | ||
| April 2, 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | ||
| April 30, 1999 | Three Seasons | ||
| June 18, 1999 | The Phantom of the Opera | ||
| July 9, 1999 | Autumn Tale | ||
| August 27, 1999 | The Muse | ||
| September 10, 1999 | Black Cat, White Cat | distributed by USA Films | |
| September 17, 1999 | Sugar Town | distributed by USA Films | |
| September 24, 1999 | Lucie Aubrac | distributed by USA Films | |
| November 5, 1999 | Rosetta | distributed by USA Films | |
| December 15, 1999 | Topsy-Turvy | distributed by USA Films |
| Release Date | Title | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 3, 2000 | Agnes Browne | distributed by USA Films | |
| March 10, 2000 | Condo Painting | distributed by USA Films | |
| April 28, 2000 | The Idiots | distributed by USA Films | |
| May 5, 2000 | Up at the Villa | distributed by USA Films | |
| May 26, 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | distributed by USA Films | |
| June 21, 2000 | Boricua's Bond | copyright holder; distributed by USA Films | |
| August 30, 2000 | Alice and Martin | distributed by USA Films | |
| October 20, 2000 | A Room for Romeo Brass | distributed by USA Films | |
| October 20, 2000 | Cherry Falls | copyright holder; distributed by USA Films | |
| March 2, 2001 | copyright holder; distributed by USA Films | ||
| April 27, 2001 | One Night at McCool's | distributed by USA Films | |
| June 8, 2001 | Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | distributed by USA Films | |
| August 10, 2001 | Session 9 | copyright holder; distributed by USA Films |