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 santa monica united states key people 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 number of employees 45 website www.filmdistrict.com filmdistrict distribution llc is 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 . both soul surfer and pompeii were retained by tristar pictures after 2014 . contents 1 history 2 filmography 2.1 released 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 . 1 2 in december 2010 filmdistrict and netflix signed a pay tv deal . 3 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 . 4 on march 23 2012 peter schlessel announced that filmdistrict hired christine birch as president of marketing as the company rebuilt its distribution team . she worked on the help real steel and war horse when she was at dreamworks pictures . 5 on april 12 2012 schlessel announced jim orr has joined filmdistrict as the new president of distribution . he held similar positions when he was at mgm and paramount pictures . 6 at the 2012 cannes film festival filmdistrict bought the u.s. rights for romantic thriller dead man down 7 and from intrepid pictures oculus . 8 on may 31 2012 they have hired three new executives tracy pollard senior vp of creative advertising brad goldberg senior vp of media and anna baxter senior vp of digital marketing . filmdistrict also announced that adrian alperovich has been promoted from president of acquisitions and operations to coo . 9 on june 25 2012 filmdistrict announced they have hired elissa greer as senior vice president of publicity . 10 in april 2013 filmdistrict announced the launch of a unit high top releasing which will provide distribution for hire services including sales in theatre marketing and print control support film rental negotiation and collection capabilities to independent producers who have the ability to provide their own prints and advertising and marketing resources . 11 on october 2 2013 it was announced that peter schlessel would be replacing james schamus as ceo of focus features effective january 2014 and filmdistrict was shut down as a distributor . future filmdistrict titles will be absorbed and released under focus features the first being that awkward moment . 12 filmdistrict s final film credit is paul w.s. anderson s pompeii which the company produced and financed with german based constantin film . tristar pictures handled the u.s. distribution . high top releasing later co released eli roth s the green inferno with blumhouse tilt and focus features owner nbcuniversal . filmography edit released edit release date title notes september 14 2010 insidious filmdistrict s first release ; co production with alliance films stage 6 films and im global april 8 2011 soul surfer co production with tristar pictures mandalay pictures enticing entertainment and brookwell mcnamara entertainment august 26 2011 don t be afraid of the dark co production with miramax october 7 2011 drive co production with sierra affinity bold films and oddlot entertainment november 4 2011 the rum diary co production with gk films and infinitum nihil december 2 2011 in the land of blood and honey co production with gk films april 13 2012 lockout co production with canal cin and europacorp ; theatrically released by open road films june 8 2012 safety not guaranteed co production with big beach september 28 2012 looper co production with tristar pictures endgame entertainment filmnation entertainment and dmg entertainment november 21 2012 red dawn co production with contrafilm united artists and metro goldwyn mayer december 7 2012 playing for keeps co production with millennium films january 25 2013 parker co production with sidney kimmel entertainment and incentive filmed entertainment march 8 2013 dead man down co production with im global wwe studios and original film march 22 2013 olympus has fallen co production with millennium films and nu image april 5 2013 evil dead co production with tristar pictures and ghost house pictures september 13 2013 insidious chapter 2 us distribution only co production with entertainment one blumhouse productions and stage 6 films november 27 2013 oldboy us distribution only co production with universal pictures 40 acres and a mule filmworks and good universe february 21 2014 pompeii filmdistrict s final film co production with tristar pictures summit entertainment constantin film and impact pictures references edit kilday gregg september 27 2010 . king s filmdistrict taps bob berney . the hollywood reporter . filmdistributorguide film district . distributorreportcard.com . retrieved 2013 01 09 . filmdistrict netflix retrieved july 6 2010 open road films june 28 2012 . http www.openroadfilms.com coming soon playing the field . retrieved july 6 2010 . missing or empty title help christine birch joins filmdistrict as marketing president filmdistrict hires jim orr as president of distribution . deadline.com . retrieved 2013 01 09 . fleming mike 2012 05 17 . filmdistrict buys u.s. rights to colin farrell noomi rapace pic dead man down . deadline.com . retrieved 2013 01 09 . fleming mike 2012 05 16 . filmdistrict acquires oculus cannes . deadline.com . retrieved 2013 01 09 . kilday gregg 2012 05 31 . filmdistrict names three new marketing executives . hollywoodreporter.com . retrieved 2013 01 09 . filmdistrict hires new line s elissa greer as svp publicity . deadline.com . retrieved 2013 01 09 . deadline.com focus features hires peter schlessel to replace james schamus as ceo . october 2 2013 . retrieved october 2 2013 . external links edit official website filmdistrict at the internet movie database retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title filmdistrict & oldid 744403301 categories companies based in los angelescompanies established in 2010film production companies of the united statescompanies disestablished in 2014universal studioshidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 00 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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