Entertainment Film Distributors
The Water flash logo used from 1987 - 2003 |
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| Type | film distributor |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1978 |
| Founder(s) | Nigel Green |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
| Website | Entertainment Films |
Entertainment Film Distributors is a British distributor of independent films in the UK and Ireland for various production companies; it is owned by Nigel Green who started the company in 1978. Their first big success was the successful horror Terror (1978) made by cult filmmaker Norman J. Warren.
Other success include Bronx Warriors and it's sequels and the even the successful Teen Wolf (1985). Entertainment also released films for low budget outfit Empire Pictures.
Most notably, between 1990 and 2010, Entertainment distributed films made by New Line Cinema along with films from other independent production companies. One of the most notable series of films distributed to date is The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2010, distribution rights for New Line Cinema films in the UK and Ireland were folded into Warner Bros.
[edit] Entertainment in Video
The home entertainment division of the company is named Entertainment in Video. It releases films that are released by Entertainment Film Distributors.
[edit] Film releases
List of films distributed include:
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1986:
- The Adventures of Mark Twain'
- The Adventures of the American Rabbit
- GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
1987:
1989:
1990:
1991:
1992:
1993:
- Damage
- Sniper
- Stalingrad
- Mr. Nanny
- Best of the Best 2
- Boxing Helena
- Super Mario Bros.
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Surf Ninjas
- The Piano
1994:
- The Man Without a Face
- Tombstone
- The House of the Spirits
- Tom & Viv
- Dumb and Dumber
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- The Crow
- Sugar Hill
- Airborne
- Once Were Warriors
- The Mask
- Bad Boy Bubby
- Monkey Trouble
- Rapa Nui
- Highlander III: The Sorcerer
- Princess Caraboo
1995:
- The Road to Wellville
- Immortal Beloved
- Once Were Warriors
- Fresh
- Don Juan DeMarco
- Death Machine
- Haunted
- In the Mouth of Madness
- Friday
- The City of Lost Children
- Mortal Kombat
- Living in Oblivion
- The Scarlet Letter
1996:
- Seven
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Bed of Roses
- Nixon
- Ging chaat goo si 4: Ji gaan daan yam mo
- Angus
- Up Close and Personal
- A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
- Kingpin
- The Substitute
- T-Rex
- Last Man Standing
- 2 Days in the Valley
- The Fan
- Evita
1997:
- Shooting Fish
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Private Parts
- Dangerous Ground
- Boogie Nights
- An American Werewolf in Paris
- Jackie Chan's First Strike
1998:
1999:
- You're Dead...
- Mad Cows
- This Year's Love
- Ride with the Devil
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- Swing
- Detroit Rock City
- The Trench
2000:
- Complicity
- Dungeons & Dragons
- U-571
- Little Nicky
- Bring It On
- Lost Souls
- Next Friday
- The Luzhin Defence
- Traffic
- American Psycho
- Cherry Falls
2001:
- Monster's Ball
- The Anniversary Party
- Spy Game
- Gosford Park
- Blow
- One Night at McCool's
- The Man Who Wasn't There
- Rush Hour 2
- Storytelling
- The Safety of Objects
- Ali
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Mike Bassett: England Manager
2002:
- Austin Powers in Goldmember
- Ripley's Game
- About Schmidt
- Far from Heaven
- Unconditional Love
- Before You Go
- Friday After Next
- S1m0ne
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Emperor's Club
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Boat Trip
2003:
- Freddy vs. Jason
- Gangs of New York
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Elf
- The Reckoning
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004:
- Saw
- Million Dollar Baby
- Fat Slags
- Charlie
- Beyond the Sea
- After the Sunset
- Boo, Zino & the Snurks
- Birth
- Ladies in Lavender
- Cellular
- Blade: Trinity
- Around the World in 80 Days
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Dawn of the Dead
- The Notebook
2005:
- The Mistress of Spices
- Son of the Mask
- Lassie
- The Cave
- Keeping Mum
- The Long Weekend
- Saw II
- White Noise
- Wedding Crashers
- Valiant
- Brokeback Mountain
- Donimo
- Assault on Precinct 13
- Mike Bassett: Manager
2006:
- Snakes on a Plane
- The Black Dahlia
- Final Destination 3
- Running Scared
- 16 Blocks
- Hoot
- Underworld: Evolution
- The Nativity Story
- Stormbreaker
- The Departed
- Little Children
2007:
- White Noise 2: The Light
- Blood and Chocolate
- Because I Said So
- The Number 23
- Premonition
- The Last Mimzy
- Fracture
- Next
- Goya's Ghosts
- Hairspray
- Lonely Hearts[disambiguation needed
] - Rush Hour 3
- Death Sentence
- Run Fatboy Run
- Shoot 'Em Up
- Mr. Woodcock
- Feast of Love
- Rendition
- Silk
- August Rush
- Martian Child
- The Golden Compass
- Code Name: The Cleaner
- St. Trinian's
2008:
- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
- Over Her Dead Body
- Semi-Pro
- The Reader
- Pathology
- Deception
- Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
- Sex and the City
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Space Chimps
- Elegy
- Bangkok Dangerous
- The Women
- Appaloosa
- City of Ember
- The Mutant Chronicles
- Pride and Glory
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno
- Four Christmases
- Inkheart
2009:
- 17 Again
- The Final Destination
- Fame
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- My Sister's Keeper
- Crossing Over
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
- The Fourth Kind
- Planet 51
- Halloween II
- Gamer
- Nine
2010:
- The Book of Eli
- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
- Hachiko: A Dog's Story
- Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
- Burke and Hare
- Unbound Captives
- Wild Target
- Piranha 3-D
- London Boulevard
- The Warrior's Way
- Animals United
- Arthur and the Great Adventure
2011:
- Something Borrowed
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- A Little Bit of Heaven
- The Killer Elite
- Hugo Cabret
- Anonymous
- Scream 4
- The Artist
- The Rum Diary
- Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
- The Inbetweeners Movie