Newmarket Films

Newmarket Films, LLC
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Motion pictures
Founded	1994; 30 years ago
Fate	Acquired by Exclusive Media Group; Film library now owned by AMBI Group
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, United States

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Newmarket Films was acquired by Exclusive Media Group (which eventually became Exclusive Media) in 2009.^[3]^[4] In 2010, Newmarket made a deal with Lionsgate Home Entertainment to become the exclusive home entertainment distributor for Newmarket's film library.^[5] Later that year, Chris Ball left the company to form the distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment; Rene Cogan and John Crye joined him.^[6] Exclusive Media then sold its own film library, including the Newmarket library, to AMBI Group in 2015.^[7]

Filmography

As distributor

Release date	Title
March 16, 2001	Memento
October 22, 2001	Donnie Darko
October 18, 2002	Real Women Have Curves
February 21, 2003	Open Hearts
March 14, 2003	Spun
April 18, 2003	Lilya 4-ever
June 6, 2003	Whale Rider
December 17, 2003	Monster
February 25, 2004	The Passion of the Christ
August 16, 2004	Stander
September 24, 2004	Silver City
October 15, 2004	P.S.
December 10, 2004	The Green Butchers
December 24, 2004	The Woodsman
February 2, 2005	Daybreak
February 18, 2005	Downfall
April 8, 2005	A Hole in My Heart
June 3, 2005	Rock School
August 5, 2005	The Chumscrubber
January 27, 2006	Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
October 27, 2006	Death of a President
January 12, 2007	God Grew Tired of Us
August 31, 2007	The Nines
January 22, 2010	Creation
May 28, 2010	Agora
October 21, 2010	The Last Play at Shea
December 29, 2010	The Way Back
May 13, 2011	Hesher