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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Film |
Predecessor | Majestic Films International Largo Entertainment |
Founded | 1991[1] 1995 (as Intermedia Films) [2] | (as Intermedia Film Equities)
Founder | Nigel Sinclair Guy East |
Defunct | 2006 |
Fate | Renamed To IM Global |
Successor | IM Global |
Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Owner | IM Internationalmedia AG |
Number of employees | 11–50[ citation needed ] |
Website | internationalmedia.de (archive) |
Intermedia Films was an American independent film production company, wholly owned by IM Internationalmedia AG.
The company mostly acted as a co-producer, funding films through the IMF (Internationale Medien und Film, German for "International Media and Film") funds. As of 2012, Intermedia's library was owned by Ron Tutor and David Bergstein.
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The company was founded in London in 1991 as Intermedia Film Equities. [1] Four years later, it was re-established as Intermedia Films by Guy East (formerly of Goldcrest Films and Majestic Films International) and Nigel Sinclair. [2] By 1997, Intermedia began operations in Los Angeles, as did Pacifica Film Distribution.[ citation needed ] The two companies merged on March 29, 2000. [3]
Its first success of note was Sliding Doors , starring Gwyneth Paltrow, which opened the Sundance Film Festival.
Year | Title | Director(s) | Production partner(s) | Distributor(s) | Budget | Box office |
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1998 | Sliding Doors [4] | Peter Howitt | Mirage Enterprises | Miramax Films (United States), Paramount Pictures (United Kingdom and worldwide home media distribution) | $6 million [5] | $67 million [6] |
Playing by Heart | Willard Carroll | Hyperion Pictures | Miramax Films | $14–20 million | $3,970,078 | |
The Land Girls | David Leland | Gramercy Pictures, Channel Four Films, Greenpoint Films, Camera One, West Eleven Films, Arena Films, Canal+, Sofineurope | Polygram Filmed Entertainment | $6 million | $3.2 million | |
Clay Pigeons | David Dobkin | Gramercy Pictures, Scott Free Productions | Polygram Filmed Entertainment | $8 million | $1.8 million | |
1999 | Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Peter Hewitt | October Films, West Eleven Films | USA Films | N/A | N/A |
2000 | Nurse Betty [7] | Neil LaBute | Gramercy Pictures, Pacifica Film, Propaganda Films, ab'-strakt pictures | USA Films | $25 million [8] | $29.4 million [9] |
Where the Money Is | Marek Kanievska | Gramercy Pictures, Pacifica Film, Scott Free Productions | USA Films | $28 million | $7 million | |
Up at the Villa | Philip Haas | October Films, Pacifica Film, Mirage Enterprises | USA Films | N/A | N/A | |
Company Man | Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath | N/A | Paramount Classics | $16 million | $146,193 | |
Love's Labour's Lost | Kenneth Branagh | The Shakespeare Film Company | Miramax Films | $13 million | $299,792 | |
2001 | Enigma | Michael Apted | Jagged Films, Broadway Video | Manhattan Pictures (United States) Buena Vista International (United Kingdom) | N/A | N/A |
The Wedding Planner [10] | Adam Shankman | Columbia Pictures, Tapestry Films, Dee Gee Entertainment, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. Produktions KG, Prufrock Pictures |
| $35 million | $95 million [11] | |
K-PAX [12] | Iain Softley | Lawrence Gordon Productions | Universal Pictures | $68 million [13] | $65 million [13] | |
Iris | Richard Eyre | BBC Films, Fox Iris Productions, Mirage Enterprises | Miramax Films (United States), Buena Vista International (United Kingdom) | $5.5 million | $16.2 million | |
Blow Dry | Paddy Breathnach | Mirage Enterprises, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. Produktions KG | Miramax Films | N/A | $830,286 | |
After Image | Robert Manganelli | Catch 23 Entertainment | Buena Vista Home Entertainment | N/A | N/A | |
2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker [14] | Kathryn Bigelow | First Light Production, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 2. Produktions KG, K-19 Film Production, National Geographic Society, New Regency Pictures, Palomar Pictures | Paramount Pictures | $90 million [15] | $65.7 million [16] |
The Quiet American [17] | Phillip Noyce | IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 2. Produktions KG, Mirage Enterprises, Pacifica Film and Saga | Miramax Films | $30 million [18] | $27,674,124 [18] | |
Adaptation [19] | Spike Jonze | Columbia Pictures, Good Machine, Propaganda Films | Sony Pictures Releasing | $19 million | $32.8 million [20] | |
Dark Blue | Ron Shelton | United Artists, Alphaville | MGM Distribution Co. | $15 million | $12,150,301 | |
She Gets What She Wants | Melanie Mayron | IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 2. Produktions KG | Constantin Film | N/A | $1.7 million | |
2003 | National Security | Dennis Dugan | Columbia Pictures | Sony Pictures Releasing | N/A | $54 million |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [21] [22] | Jonathan Mostow | C2 Pictures, [22] IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. Produktions KG, Mostow/Lieberman Productions | Warner Bros. Pictures (United States/Canada) Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (through Columbia Pictures [23] ) (International) | $187.3 million ($167.3 million excluding production overhead) | $433.3 million [24] | |
Basic | John McTiernan | Columbia Pictures, Phoenix Pictures | Sony Pictures Releasing | $50 million | $42.8 million | |
The Life of David Gale | Alan Parker | Saturn Films | Universal Pictures | $38 million | $38.9 million | |
2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Donald Petrie | N/A | 20th Century Fox | $30 million | $14.6 million |
Alexander [25] | Oliver Stone | Ixtlan Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Pacific Film, Egmond Film & Television, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 3 Produktions KG | Warner Bros. Pictures (United States/United Kingdom/Italy), Constantin Film (Germany), Pathé Distribution (France), A-Film Distribution (Netherlands) | $155 million [26] | $167.3 million [26] | |
The Aviator [27] | Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros. Pictures, Miramax Films, Forward Pass, Appian Way, Initial Entertainment Group, Cappa Productions | Warner Bros. Pictures (North America), Buena Vista International (Select Territories), Initial Entertainment Group (International) | $110 million | $213.7 million [28] | |
Mindhunters | Renny Harlin | Destination Films, Dimension Films, Outlaw Productions, Avenue Pictures, Weed Road Pictures | Miramax Films (USA) Alliance Atlantis(Canada, Spain and Netherlands) Sony Pictures Releasing (International) | $27 million | $21.1 million | |
Suspect Zero | E. Elias Merhige | Columbia Pictures, Lakeshore Entertainment | Paramount Pictures (USA & Canada) Sony Pictures Releasing (International) | $27 million | $11.4 million | |
If Only | Gil Junger | Outlaw Productions, Love Spell Entertainment | Sony Pictures Television | $3 million | $532,673 million | |
2006 | Basic Instinct 2 [29] | Michael Caton-Jones | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, C2 Pictures | Sony Pictures Releasing | $70 million | $38.6 million [30] |
RV [31] | Barry Sonnenfeld | Columbia Pictures, [32] Red Wagon Entertainment [31] | Sony Pictures Releasing | $50 million | $87.5 million |