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| Private | |
| Industry | Film |
| Fate | Merged into Focus Features |
| Successor | Focus Features (Label of Gramercy Pictures in 2015) |
| Founded | August 31, 2010 |
| Founder |
Graham King Timothy Headington Peter Schlessel Bob Berney |
| Defunct | December 31, 2014 |
| Headquarters | 1540 2nd Street Suite 200 Los Angeles United States |
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Key people
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Peter Schlessel (CEO) Adrian Alperovich (COO) Christine Birch (President of Marketing) Jim Orr (President of Distribution) Lia Buman (EVP of Acquisitions) Bob Berney (President of Theatrical Distribution) |
| Products | Motion pictures |
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Number of employees
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45 |
| Website | www |
FilmDistrict Distribution, LLC was an American motion picture company based in Los Angeles. It specialized in acquisitions, distribution, production, and financing. FilmDistrict was founded in August 2010 by Peter Schlessel in partnership with Graham King and Timothy Headington.
FilmDistrict's releases were distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for home and media markets, and after early 2014 those operations will be handled by Focus Features and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment respectively. FilmDistrict, unfortunately, was dissolved into Focus Features in 2014. Soul Surfer, Looper, Evil Dead and Pompeii were retained by TriStar Pictures after 2014.
FilmDistrict acquired and released between four and eight wide release, commercial titles per year. This includes select titles from GK Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. In December 2010, FilmDistrict and Netflix signed a Pay-TV deal.
FilmDistrict partnered with TriStar Pictures on select films starting with Soul Surfer and Looper. FilmDistrict's CEO Peter Schlessel also made alternative distribution arrangements for their film releases. In 2012, Schlessel closed a three-picture distribution deal for their 2012 films to go through Tom Ortenberg’s Open Road Films. Open Road released Lockout, the Luc Besson-produced sci-fi action movie that stars Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace, on April 13, 2012. Open Road also released the Red Dawn remake on November 21, 2012. On Open Road's official website they list Playing The Field as the third film.
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