October Films 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 Pictures (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.

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)