Newmarket Films, LLC was an American privately owned independent film production and distribution company and a former film distribution subsidiary of Newmarket Capital Group. The company produced such films as The Mexican, Cruel Intentions, and the Christopher Nolan films Memento and The Prestige. Newmarket distributed, in North America, such films as The Passion of the Christ, Whale Rider, Monster, Donnie Darko, and God Grew Tired of Us.
History
Newmarket Capital Group was founded in 1994 by Chris Ball and William Tyrer, with the company's executive team made up of Chris Calhoon, Rene Cogan, John Crye and Robert Fyvolent. The company was originally launched as a film financing company. Newmarket financed and produced films that had "break-out potential" and finance as small as $2 million and as large as $20 million. While financing and producing Memento, the company had trouble trying to find a distribution deal. Producer Aaron Ryder, who brought the film to Newmarket, decided to distribute it as a one-off project under Newmarket Films. Memento was a critical and commercial success, thus leading Newmarket Films to become a full theatrical distribution company.
Newmarket Films was acquired by Exclusive Media Group (which eventually became Exclusive Media) in 2009. In 2010, Newmarket made a deal with Lionsgate Home Entertainment to become the exclusive home entertainment distributor for Newmarket's film library. Later that year, Chris Ball left the company to form the distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment; Rene Cogan and John Crye joined him. Exclusive Media then sold its own film library, including the Newmarket library, to AMBI Group in 2015.
Filmography
As distributor
As financier/producer
American Pie
Anna Karenina
A Better Way to Die
Bound
Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions 2
Cruel Intentions 3
Dead Man
Devour
Different for Girls
FairyTale: A True Story
Felicia's Journey
A Hole in My Heart
The Importance of Being Earnest
In Your Hands
It's the Rage
The King Is Alive
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Mean Guns
Memento (co-production with Summit Entertainment) (DVD distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) The Mexican Mrs Dalloway My Big Fat Greek Wedding My Family Open Hearts The Prestige Prom Night Rogue Trader S. Darko The Shooter Sidewalks of New York Silent Trigger A Simple Plan The Skulls The Skulls II The Skulls III Sliding Doors Splendor Stark Raving Mad (co-production with Summit Entertainment) (DVD distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) Stranger than Fiction Top Dog Topsy-Turvy The Usual Suspects Velvet Goldmine A Walk on the Moon The Whole Wide World Wrong Turn Y Tu Mamá También
