Bontonfilm is a Czech film company. It was founded in 1994 by transformation from Lucernafilm Video (successor of Ústřední půjčovna filmů).[1]
As of 2022, Bontonfilm holds a 10.4% market share being 4th largest Czech distributor (behind Falcon a.s., Cinemart and Bioscop a.s.).[2]
Bontonfilm is linked with Bonton company that as founded in 1990 to produce music.[3] Bonton eventually expanded to film industry and acquired Lucernafilm Video which became Bontonfilm.[4] Bontonfilm quickly became biggest Czech film distributor with about 30% share of the market.[5]
Bontonfilm managed to partner with major American studios including 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks Animation, Universal Pictures and Paramount. Bontonfilm distributed films by these studios in the Czech Republic.[6] The main rival of Bontonfilm was Falcon a.s. which distributes films by Walt Disney Pictures and Columbia Pictures.[7]
This changed in 2013, major American studios switched to Cinemart and Bontonfilm lost its position of strongest film distribution company of Czech market, falling to fourth place in the market.[8] [9]
| Release date | Title | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1994 | Faust | ||
| 24 November 1994 | The Order | ||
| 2 February 1995 | Indian Summer | ||
| 30 March 1995 | Too Loud a Solitude | ||
| 13 April 1995 | In the Coat of Lioness' Arms | ||
| 11 May 1995 | Golet in the Valley | ||
| 18 May 1995 | Game of Chance | ||
| 29 January 1997 | Boomerang | ||
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